Method for the manufacture of motor vehicles

US8844109B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG · DE

Inventors

• Christian Meyer · Karlsruhe, DE
• Ralf Schuster · Dresden, DE
• Lutz Müller · Bad Hersfeld, DE
• Pascal Kauffelin · Werdau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 26, 2009
• Grant date: Sep 30, 2014
• Expiry date: May 27, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/53539
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for manufacturing motor vehicles at a manufacturing location (S), from which ready-assembled motor vehicles are built in a planned number and order of output. First modules (MA) are delivered in a specific assembly stage discontinuously from a first production shop (PA) to the manufacturing location (S) and are fed continuously into a manufacturing line (F) in which the modules (MA) are manufactured into motor vehicles (A). Second modules (MB) be fed in a specific assembly stage from a second production shop (PB) into the joint manufacturing line (F) at a sequencing station (5) alternately with the modules (MA). Thus, vehicles of first and second model series can be manufactured on one and the same manufacturing line.