
Quality through projection
How industrial companies can use intelligent worker guidance systems to ensure efficiency and quality in assembly and reworking despite an increasing number of variants.
How can you ensure that a manual assembly line remains profitable despite constantly new product variants and changing production conditions? The Bott Group offers workstations and software from a single source and explains which features make an assembly line both flexible and economical.

Under the motto "100 years of passion for technology and innovation", Phoenix Contact not only celebrated technological and personal connections from 100 years of company history at this year's Hannover Messe.
The increasing shortage of skilled workers is putting even well-established companies in manual assembly under pressure. According to the "DIHK Skilled Workers 2022 Report", 58% of industrial companies were unable to fill vacancies in the long term. A solution to the situation is desperately sought in view of full order books.
Camera-based worker assistance
Camera-based worker assistance: Smart Klaus recognizes components, provides assembly instructions and points out design errors. At Siemens, the assistance system from Optimum is used in THT assembly.
"Many people still associate the term Industry 4.0 with the idea of production without people," says André Pöppe, Product Manager at Desoutter. In this interview, he explains why the opposite is the case.

n the wake of Industry 4.0, assistance systems are increasingly supporting manufacturing processes. Robert Rothenberger, Managing Director at memex, talks about modern qualification measures on the store floor and the general differences between assistance systems and digital work instructions.
Assisted workstations in electrical engineering production. Stego Elektrotechnik, a manufacturer of enclosure climate control systems, carries out the entire assembly process with the help of the assistant: As a worker assistance system, the Ulixes assistant guides the employee visually through the work steps and checks them in real time.
Worker guidance and process control. Worker assistance systems offer budget-friendly solutions for the cost-efficient production of small batches up to batch size one. Ulixes relies on a fully integrated complete solution for worker assistance.
Minitec's ergonomic workstations are designed to facilitate the integration of people with disabilities into work processes. In combination with digital assistance systems, workshops for the disabled should be able to operate as competitive providers.
Generation of assembly information
Flexible assembly assistance. The development of an assembly assistance system for areas with small batch sizes and a large number of variants is a research activity of the Chair of Production Systems (LPS) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB).