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The primary operating area of the Press Shop was up on the second level, where a massive Schuler press lived. These oversized machines operate essentially autonomously, seamlessly shuttling in-process components through the production process. Sets of dies operate like cookie cutters, with the upper and lower pieces of the dies being pressed down onto a piece of sheet metal to press it into the desired shape. Check out the video above for a quick look at the Schuler press in action.
Rows of identically pressed out body panels wait in a storage rack for storage or assembly in the Body Shop. Image credit: Kyle Field,From the Press Shop, the body panels were ferried over to the Body Shop where armies of ABB robots equipped with spot welders, suction cups, and more, supported by a host of VinFast workers, welded panels together into a body-in-white one weld at a time.
when we toured it in 2019. As the process moves along, what was a pile of sheet metal just a few minutes earlier emerges as a fully assembled vehicle body, raw sheet metal glinting in the light of the factory.VinFast’s Body Shop is highly automated, with ABB robots moving the in-process vehicle body parts into position, welding them a few dozen times at each station, then moving them along to the next step in the process.
Components staged for assembly with vehicles moving along production line on overhead conveyor. Image credit: Kyle Field,The current production line is primarily producing combustion vehicles and VinFast plans to halt production of all petrol vehicles at the end of August this year. It will be a hard conversion to electric vehicles for VinFast and demonstrates their conviction in the electric vehicle space and to the future which they believe is fully electric.