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KUKA Wins Major Mercedes-Benz Contract



KUKA has won a major automation contract from German premium car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz for the engineering and construction, as well as the assembly and commissioning, of several body-in-white production lines. From those lines, various future vehicle models will make their way to North America.

As part of its flexible production strategy, Mercedes-Benz will rely on KUKA's extensive technological expertise and incorporate several hundred of the company's industrial robots within four key areas of the body-in-white shop line where the main vehicle frame is assembled prior to painting and before the application of trim and engine installation.

According to Gerald Mies, CEO of KUKA Systems GmbH, key to winning this most recent contract was the company's decades of experience in automotive manufacturing automation as well as previous successful Mercedes-Benz related projects. The most recent project involved frame production for the Mercedes-Benz G-Class of SUVs.

Because of a KUKA production line at MAGNA Presstec in the Austrian town of Lebring, the manufacture of frames for the G-Class is fully automated. Whereas the welding of many large parts was previously done manually, the task is now completed in a production line from KUKA that welds the vehicle ladder frames automatically.

For more information contact:

KUKA Systems North America LLC

6600 Center Drive

Sterling Heights, MI 48312

586-795-2000

servicecenter@americas.kuka.com

www.kuka.com

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