Success Stories

Managing Strict Product Regulations with a Smart Assembly System

Discover how our customer WILD simplified their assembly, increased efficiency, and reduced their documentation efforts by switching to our integrated digital assembly system.
Assembly station with smart assembly tools and system

The Customer: A Leading Manufacturer in the Medical and Optical Industry

WILD is a partner for the production and development of opto-mechatronic components and high-tech devices in the medical, optical, and industrial technology sectors. They produce laboratory analysis devices, surgical equipment, innovative lighting systems, prosthetics, therapy devices, laser technologies and more. Manufacture and development are exclusively on customer order.

Their impressive range of technologies – a combination of technical optics, electronics and application software, plastics technology as well as mechatronics and precision engineering – makes WILD a leading partner for large corporations, medium-sized companies, and start-ups in product development, industrialization, and series production. The WILD Group employs over 500 people at four locations in Carinthia, Vienna, and Trnava.

An Efficient Method to Ensure Strict Safety Regulations Are Met

Medical technology is subject to the highest safety standards and regulations, with requirements for traceability and documentation being particularly high. Our digital assembly solution has been used at WILD for over a year now. Managing director DI Dr. Christian Rabitsch explains the optimization potential uncovered by the introduction of Smart Factory Assembly.

A particular example was the manufacture of a swivel arm for a surgical microscope. For this product, safety regulations are particularly rigorous, as it is mounted directly above the patient in the operating room.

With our Smart Factory Assembly solution, it can be verified at any time that all screw connections have been attached with the required tightening torque. Up until now, the corresponding proofs for the product filled file folder after file folder. With the new system, quality control takes place automatically in digital form at every work step, so that there is no need for paper documentation.

Our products are based on high complexity and low volume. We were looking for a solution that would guarantee process reliability for small quantities in combination with reasonable cost-effectiveness.

Dr. Christian Rabitsch, Managing Director, WILD

Continuous Innovation and Optimization

Revision adjustments were made and release processes individually adapted for the fast-growing Carinthian technology company. WILD is obliged to document even the smallest change in a workflow. Our smart assembly system automatically tracks every change for them.

The vision of the high-tech specialist is to link worker guidance with the training platform in the long term and thus ensure "in real time" that all employees have the necessary qualifications for specific work steps. In this way, the assembly workplace of the future is being developed together and step by step.

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