Automotive
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.
Smarter, Safer Manufacturing with T-Slot Aluminum
Automotive manufacturers need production systems that adapt to changing models, evolving workflows, and ergonomic demands. Learn how 80/20's modular framing systems support workstations, guarding, robotics, and material handling to improve safety, efficiency, and long-term flexibility on the production floor.
80/20 Helps Automotive Plants Build:
• Conveying systems
• End-of-arm tooling
• Guarding barriers
• Machine frames
• Mobile workstations
• Racks, carts and shelving
• Workstations and cells
• Test fixtures
Automotive Line Field Guide
In this guide, learn how to identify production bottlenecks, improve workstation layouts, and redesign automotive assembly lines using modular 80/20 T-slot aluminum solutions.
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
Our skilled technicians are always available through 80/20’s free design assistance, offering guidance to help you optimize and future-proof your space.
Let Us Build It For You
Construct your framing system on your own or ask for help. You decide whether you want us to assemble it onsite for you or pack and ship your components to make DIY assembly easy for your own team to handle.
Custom to Your Needs
Whether you need one part or 1,000 (or more), you never have to order in certain quantities or meet a minimum requirement before you can place your order.
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.
How 80/20 Can Accelerate Work in Automotive Environments
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.
Reduce Automotive Material Handling Costs with T-Slot Aluminum
Lower material handling costs without sacrificing performance. Discover how modular T-slot aluminum helps automotive manufacturers build customizable carts, workstations, flow racks, and material handling systems that reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and adapt as production needs change.
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.
