Heavy-lifting robots are crucial for manufacturing electric vehicles

The transition to electric vehicles is placing new demands on manufacturing processes, which requires a change in traditional automotive production. This affects not only the automotive manufacturers themselves, but also suppliers as well as machinery and systems builders. The manufacturing processes for an electric powertrain, including the battery, are fundamentally different from those for a conventional combustion engine drive. Common manufacturing processes, such as turning, milling and grinding, are needed much less frequently. Other processes have now become crucial instead. KUKA has taken on this challenge and has already been able to gain a great deal of experience in this still new market, thanks to more than 30 successfully implemented production systems. We are thus able to fully assess the challenges and opportunities in this context while also supporting our customers in an advisory capacity. https://go.kuka.com/emobility-yt