A Tier 1 automotive supplier with three plants across central Europe finished its 2025 capex review with a slide that had been written four years running.
Eighty-six robots installed across the body-in-white area, cycle time at every cell inside its commissioning envelope, OEE figures the line manager could quote without checking.
Then, on the next slide, a line-level throughput figure that had moved 4% in three years against a planned 22%. The robotics team was performing. The line was not. The audit, when it came, traced the same pattern across all three plants. [Read more…] about Why most automation programmes plateau between cell and line
