At present, most of the powertrains of medium and large luxury cars adopt the form of longitudinal engine rear-drive. Based on the assembly of a luxury brand vertical engine structure in the engine pre-assembly line of the assembly workshop, a specially designed engine carrier lifting fixture was used to realize the process installation of the parts. The lifting fixture was used to simultaneously lift the engine and transmission as well as the front axle assembly on the pre-assembly line, and automatically move the suspended integrated lifting fixture assembly and the workpiece on the pre-assembly line by carrying lifting fixture, thus completing the process installation of the parts. This paper discussed the application advantages and functional characteristics of this engine pre-assembly line process planning scheme and engine carrier lifting fixture for simultaneous suspension of multiple large mass parts, then introduced cases of lifting fixuture optimization.

Engine pre-assembly line  /  Engine assembly lifting fixture  /  Lifting fixture function  /  Localized lifting fixture optimization