Optimize Your Automotive Plant Efficiency
Automotive manufacturers and suppliers are under major pressure. As consumer demands continue to change, and innovations like electric and autonomous vehicles cause substantial and sudden disruption, automotive manufacturers have two choices: step up or step aside. Waiting to deploy advanced manufacturing practices or to find new ways to work is a wild card. Building smarter, safer cars begins with smarter, safer factories. The automotive manufacturers and suppliers that win will be agile enough to constantly re-evaluate and refine their processes, while also being consistent enough to meet expected outcomes.
• Automotive workers must quickly learn new skills and processes to stay productive and stay ahead of demand.
• Manufacturing plants must find ways to produce cars faster and more cost-effectively—without compromising quality or safety.
• Downtime must become a thing of the past to keep production lines moving.
• Quality can’t be less than flawless. Defects must be found and addressed before imperfect cars ever reach consumers.
What Makes 80/20 Different?
Start Designing for Free
A free standalone software for all experience levels to design with 80/20 products. Easily switch between profiles, fasteners, and more and generate detailed BOMs & drawings.
From Concept to Completion
Free design assistance from skilled 80/20 design technicians. They can offer up ideas to solve your problems economically in ways you may not think about.
Let Us Build It For You
The 80/20 Builds service helps you increase your productivity. Our dedicated and experienced technicians build projects and ship them safely and damage-free.
Custom to Your Needs
All our products can be tailored to your needs. We’ll make custom changes to any part we offer. No order minimums mean you can order as much—or as little—as you need.
Need Local Support?
Take advantage of 80/20 services through our network of distribution partners near you. Select from design assistance, on-site visits and ongoing support.
Structural Systems to Support Automotive Innovation
Having the right framing systems and accessories to support critical infrastructure like guarding barriers, robotics, conveying systems, and mobile workstations can mean the difference between getting work done safely and quickly—and struggling with haphazard work areas that aren’t built to efficiently support the tasks being done. Choosing structural framing systems and components that align with your environment and unique processes and workflows enables many opportunities in automotive manufacturing.
Flexible Work
Structural systems that can be reimagined and redeployed repeatedly let you create what you need on the fly. As demands and needs change, you can easily support fast production-line changeovers and accommodate whatever comes next.
Less Downtime
The work happening on your plant floor is rigorous, and manufacturing environments can be tough on tools and infrastructure. To maintain production uptime, your framing systems need to be strong, durable, and able to withstand repetitive motion while maintaining tight, secure connections.
Easy Assembly
Workers need to focus on production, not piecing together workstations or trying to use tools and equipment without the right support. Framing systems that are quick to assemble with few tools and no expensive modifications let workers concentrate on what they do best.
69% of auto leaders expect technological changes to drive transformation in the way their companies create, deliver, and capture value in the next three years.
How 80/20 Can Accelerate Work in Automotive Environments
Create Exactly What You Need
With more than 120 profile shapes that range from light to heavy-duty, our fasteners and accessories can be configured into limitless designs. What once was a material rack can become a customized workstation. You can add and reposition whatever types of devices and components you need along T-slot channels.
Design with Materials Built to Last
From resilient support structures to guarding barriers, our T-slot profiles are easy to transform into whatever you can envision. Made of aluminum, our solutions last longer than other options. They don’t chip, oxidize, fade, or rust, and they don’t need to be painted or coated. You can run tubes and wire in the channel to save space and protect connectivity.