Sebastian Schlicht

Automotive: Maintenance and condition monitoring

In this podcast episode, Sebastian Schlicht, head of automation at Magna International, reports from the Meerane site, near Zwickau in western Saxony. Primarily, exterior trim, bumpers, sill trim, but also support parts installed in the bumper are manufactured there – from injection molding, to painting, to final assembly “Just in Sequence” directly to the assembly line. The goal of digitalization at Magna International is to make production processes as transparent as possible so that the company knows exactly how resources are being used, can design processes more efficiently, and thus save resources. This episode, for example, deals with the vibration analysis of a paint shop. The solution provider is ifm electronic – represented here by Tilo Haug, Senior Manager Automotive. ifm is a developer, producer and supplier of sensors, controllers, software and systems for industrial automation and digitalization. With the ifm moneo solution, a digital toolbox in the form of an IIoT platform consisting of basic software and applications, ifm provides an open, manufacturer-independent system. It easily reads and processes the sensor data generated in the production facilities. How exactly ifm moneo works, why Magna International relies on the ifm solution, how it is structured and what productive results the implementation has brought, can be heard in podcast episode 84 of the IoT Use Case Podcast.