ELAM Assembly combines digital worker guidance, integrated inspection steps, and tool connectivity into a stable, traceable assembly process – even with high variant diversity and changing teams. This standardizes workflows, detects errors early, and reliably secures assembly quality and traceability across all steps.
ELAM guides employees step-by-step through the entire assembly process: from material and order provision, through the start of the assembly order, to the guided assembly steps. Work instructions, images, videos, and stored test plans ensure that each work step is executed clearly, traceably, and with process reliability. Checks can be flexibly integrated as intermediate or final inspections, including plausibility checks and pass/fail (IO/NIO) decisions. Serial numbers, batches, working times, and test results are directly linked to the respective product and reported back to the ELAM production system as well as connected higher-level systems. This creates stable assembly processes with less rework, scrap, and error risks – regardless of variant diversity, product changes, or new employees.
From Variant Chaos to Scrap: ELAM Creates Process Reliability, Quality, and Transparency.
Errors in assembly directly impact quality, costs, and delivery times: variant mix-ups, unreliable joining processes, and missing traceability lead to rework, scrap, and complaints. This overview shows typical sources of error – and how ELAM permanently eliminates them with standardized, digitally guided assembly processes.
In an ongoing assembly process, a high error rate led to forgotten parts, incompletely tightened screws, and incorrectly installed components. With ELAM, the assembly process was digitally secured in the short term: employees can only proceed with work steps if they have been executed correctly, and errors are detected and rectified immediately. Additionally, an ERP connection was integrated to transfer orders securely and quickly into the process.
The result: significantly higher quality and productivity, and such tangible benefits that the customer equipped the entire line with ELAM.
