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Article: New car seat gets new transfer system: a transfer system assembles a line of new car seats.(Automatica)
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- March 1, 2004
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When car manufacturers build new cars, they usually build new production lines. And their suppliers often do the same. To meet increasing expectations, automotive supplier Faurecia (Stadthagen, Germany) installed the TS 4plus transfer system from Bosch Rexroth AG (Stuttgart, Germany) to assemble a new line of car seats.
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Germany has almost 39 million registered cars. However, most drivers probably do not know where their car seats came from. However, it is highly likely they are manufactured by Faurecia.
Faurecia has more than 20 "just-in-time" plants. The Unna, Germany, facility produces seats--anything from a stamped part ...