Car panel storage stillages KUKA Systems and JLR

Brief

• To design and manufacture a storage stillage to work in body and white and transport parts between various manufacturing cells
• Ergonomic to use and quick to load/unload
• Robust and to last the life cycle of car

What we did

• Collated all the client’s 3D CAD data of panels so we could work around them
• Used our knowledge of panel holding to design suitable nylon and polyurethane dunnage to support the panels.
• Developed concepts for the stillage’s required
• Produced prototypes for each stillage’s and presented to client for buy off

Outcome

• Manufactured 200 stillage’s in total
• Currently designing new stillages for a new model