Applications

Automotive

Innovations made in line

The automotive industry generates a constant flow of innovations and sets impulses for other industries. Development of new drive technologies and the use of new materials are just as challenging as the requirements to reduce emissions. The fundamentals of the modern automotive industry are connectivity, e-mobility and autonomous driving.

The innovations of the industry require innovative logistics, with digitisation, smart connectivity and automation playing a major role. Automotive logistics is a crucial success factor for the automotive industry to ensure clocked production.

Requirements in the automotive industry

Availability: Just in sequence by maximum availability of the fleet
Automation: High unit volumes of similar products
TCO: Considering the overall costs / low Total Cost of Ownership

Efficient warehouse logistics – Partnership between DHL Logistics and Volkswagen, Slovakia’s largest automobile manufacturer

Challenge: To optimize storage areas and processes – DHL Logistics (Slovakia) and Volkswagen.Solution: A combination of electric forklift trucks, warehouse trucks and a mobile ra-…

All runs to perfection at the Michelin plant

Industry: automotive, tyres Company: 114,000 employees worldwide, EUR 21.9 billion (2017 net sales), Headquarters: Clermont-Ferrand (France). Challenge: goods handling in the largest…

Lead through teamwork

Sector: AutomotiveCompany: The Audi Group is present in more than 100 markets worldwide and has around 90,000 employees.Challenge: Establish efficient, autonomous and stable processes…

Imperial Logistics International

Industry: Warehouse management of large-volume and fast-movinving BMW spare parts in the site in Wallersdorf. Solution: 211 individually configured and equipped STILL trucks together…

Schneider Promotion & Transport

Challenges: Fast and efficient availability of reliable forklifts at home and abroad at the DTMSolution: Germany and international rental fleet by STILLSTILL products: STILL…

Albert Ziegler GmbH

Challenges: Producing 150 special vehicles in seriesSolution: Holistic internal logistics concept including a production concept with shuttle-based replenishment control.STILL…

Fendt

Challenge: to reduce capital commitment, employee and energy costs in the assembly area of the continuously variable Vario transmission. Solution: Switch from front loaders to…