The automotive supplier BENTELER manufactures parts and modules for chassis, car bodies, engine and exhaust systems as well as e-mobility solutions. With 20,000 employees and around 70 plants in more than 20 countries, the automotive division of the company produces tailored solutions for its customers. Its product portfolio includes chassis parts, control arms and structural components such as bumper systems which are all subjected to strict safety inspections on a daily basis. “A B-pillar must last in the event of a crash. For this reason, we never compromise on quality,” Eduard Reuswich, Continuous Improvement Manager at BENTELER explains.

For quality assurance, the company relies on optical 3D metrology by ZEISS. At its Talle site in Paderborn,Germany, parts are first digitized in a ZEISS ScanBox optical measuring machine and then visualized and analyzed with the ZEISS INSPECT software. To enable multi-site monitoring, the Paderborn plant manages the implementation of ScanBox systems at other sites: Measuring and inspection plans are centrally created and then rolled out. The real-time analysis of the measuring data created worldwide is carried out by the ZEISS PiWeb reporting software.

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