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Fixed investment costs and rapid delivery time to benefit customers

A success story continues. The DCAM assembly station (DEPRAG COMPACT ASSEMBLY MODULE), which has proven itself many hundreds of times all over the world, is now 25 years old. But this is no reason for the DEPRAG engineers to rest on their laurels. They have optimised their “baby” and equipped it for the future. At the MOTEK 2011 show in Stuttgart DEPRAG, the automation experts, presented the DCAM in its pioneering new, modular form, providing customers with some major benefits. The DCAM’s legendary reliability and high level of functional safety is now available “out of the box”, which means that the standardised assembly platform is now more cost-effective, and delivery times are shorter.

The DCAM came about when mobile phone assembly was still in its infancy. Mobile phones used to be assembled individually by hand - an expensive and time-consuming process. The company that could produce its mobile phones faster and more cost-effectively, would be ahead of the game. So, a well-known Swedish mobile phone manufacturer sought help from DEPRAG, the German automation experts. Many work sessions later the assembly platform, now valued throughout the world, was born. Dubbed the Weasel, the DCAM began its work. And with weasel-like speed it won over the Swedish mobile phone manufacturers, who immediately ordered the first hundred of these innovative assembly stations. Jürgen Hierold, Sales Manager, takes a confident look back at the DCAM’s beginnings, and at the subsequent 25 years. “The DCAM has become a firm fixture, because it is good.”

But nothing is so good that it cannot be improved. Sales Manager Jürgen Hierold points out: “Up to now every DCAM has been a individual product designed for each customer. Each new system took a long time to produce - from the initial consultation, through the design engineering stage, to the manufacturing stage - and the work involved had a negative impact on investment costs and delivery times.” In the age of increased budget squeezes, the call for a DCAM at a fixed price and with a short delivery lead time was becoming increasingly loud, and now this wish has become reality as the DCAM is available as a modular design.

Please find further information under www.deprag.com.