Comau delivers electric drive assembly line to Geely Veremt plant

Comau has developed and deployed an automated e-drive assembly line for Geely Automobile Holdings at its Geely Veremt plant in Ningbo, China, for the end-to-end assembly of the electric motor, gearbox, and inverter for its electric vehicles. The line uses a flexible automatic production system to assemble the permanent-magnet motor rotors, gearboxes, and electronics drives, in addition to automated quality control and testing.

The line increases the plant’s automation rate from 40% to 80% while delivering a full-scale production capacity of 120,000 jobs per year, reports the company.

Using multiple robots to install the motor rotors, the automated line also features 3D vision positioning and guidance, automatic high-speed magnet installation, automatic injection of rotor cores and the automatic dual-position dynamic balance correction, and magnetization. The electric drive line, on the other hand, includes three-in-one assembly such as motor stator casing, thermal sleeve, motor static testing, motor dynamic testing, automatic bearing feeding and pressing, automatic bolt feeding and tightening, and the automatic measurement and selection of gaskets.