From racy sports cars and zippy compacts to mini-vans that accommodate up to eight people, Germany is home to nearly 39 million cars. And when German auto manufacturers design new cars, they often design new production facilities, as do their suppliers — like Faurecia’s Unna, Germany, production site which specializes in car seat manufacturing.

      Admittedly most drivers never question where their car seats came from, but in Germany it is likely they came from Faurecia. Comfort, safety, and style, the defining features of Faurecia seats, also determine the company’s research and production activities. As a result, Faurecia uses the TS4plus flexible assembly conveyor system from the Linear Motion and Assembly Technologies group of the Bosch Rexroth Corporation to meet new seat assembly specifications.

A new angle on assembly

      With more than 20 just-in-time plants, including one in Hermosillo, Son., Mexico, Faurecia is close to the customer anywhere in the world. Its production site in Unna employs 600 workers who specialize in making car seats. Faurecia began making coil-spring seats in the 1960s, and today, the company draws upon its decades of experience to produce seats with a high degree of production depth — anything from a stamped part to a complete seat, depending on the order. Orders are placed according to the car model, and Faurecia builds all of the various seats required for that model.

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