BUS Assembly🚌2024 (MAN, SETRA, Mercedes): Production plant Factory➕ Manufacturing Process

BUS FACTORY 2024: Luxury bus MAN or Daimler Mercedes Benz (Daimler) and SETRA bus manufacturing🔥Watch production assembly line from bus factory in Germany (similar as in the USA).

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✅What is the difference between production line and assembly line? - A production line is a manufacturing configuration that features a series of processing steps. At each step, an operation is performed that moves items closer to becoming a finished product. An assembly line is a type of production line that produces an assembly of parts and components.

Even assembling the cockpit or screwing down the seats in the interior does not take more than three quarters of an hour for the team in question. Everything here is handmade by well-trained employees – and embedded in clearly defined processes. Manufactory meets industry, experience meets efficiency. And because the employees are constantly expanding their skill sets, everyone is also welcome at other assembly stations. This not only makes assembly more flexible, but also makes the job more varied. It increases motivation and has a positive effect on the quality and error rate.

But it is not only the process that defines the quality. The high sense of responsibility of employees also contributes to this. In addition, the quality of the work is checked and documented at each station. Futhermore, there are quality gates after certain assembly line sections. If topics need to be clarified in between.

After six and a half days, it’s time: the new Setra is ready – and the employees proud. Specialists put the technical systems into operation. Engine, air conditioning and the entire electrical system are then fully functional. Completely cleaned, the new Setra leaves the assembly hall and starts the last stage of its first journey.
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In Neu-Ulm, Germany buses can be painted in over 4,500 different colours. That sounds impressive – but there is something else that is unique worldwide: Setra is the only company that paints buses fully automatically using robots. This has a lot of advantages – in terms of quality, environmental protection, efficiency. But there are areas where it is solely on the skills of Setra employees. Areas in which robots will never attain the excellence.

It’s a spectacle of a special kind. A perfect industrial choreography staged by paint robots around the bodyshells. And it is unique in the world of buses: at 13 stations, the robots paint up to 34 vehicles every day. They draw their paths evenly and accurately, programmed and monitored by painters with the highest quality standards.

In the past, employees used to apply the layers of paint by hand. Compared to then, today’s robots are content with about half the original amount of paint. This reduces the weight of the vehicle and protects the environment at the same time.

Everything in the paint shop follows a perfectly rehearsed procedure. Once the new body has been thoroughly washed and dried, specialists apply the yellow primer filler. The next step is one of the most important: sanding. And because the subsequent paint quality is only as good as the result of this preparatory work, employees do not leave the sanding out of their hands.

Only now do robots make their big entrance. Layer by layer, they apply the paint to the body. And although they have great confidence in the robots, Setra specialists monitor the work of the robots very closely. After every single layer. Once they are satisfied with the result, the paint is dried in the drying chamber.

As perfect as robots may be: they are not creative. That is why in this bus factory are experienced professionals for specialist design tasks. Type painters, who can hardly be outdone then it comes to foil stickers. And airbrush painters who also apply filigree designs to the bus with passion and great attention to detail. No job is too difficult for them, no motive impossible. And each of them has a talent that no robot in the world can replace. They are the ones who make Setra buses unmistakably unique. Handcraft thus meets high tech, resulting in a special level of quality.