Industry brief

Automotive

Robot and line control that keeps production safe, traceable and at rate.

What matters

What matters most

Automotive plants run to takt time, with little slack between a fault on the line and a missed delivery. Their control systems must let robots, conveyors and people work safely side by side, deliver consistent quality with full traceability, and absorb new models and changes without stopping the line.

Uptime at line rate

Lines run to takt, and a stoppage costs output by the minute. Control systems must be reliable, with faults that are quick to diagnose and recover from.

Robot and operator safety

Robots, conveyors and people share the same space. Cells need guarding and safety functions that are designed, validated and documented to current standards, and that operators have no reason to bypass.

Quality and traceability

Every part must be traceable to the process that made it, with the process data your customers and your IATF 16949 audits expect to see.

Launches without disruption

New models, variants and engineering changes arrive on tight timelines. They have to be brought in during short shutdowns, without putting current production or quality at risk.

Solutions

Solutions for Automotive

Matrix delivered robot control and integration for an automotive production process. Every project we deliver follows the same approach: requirements and standards agreed up front, logic tested against a simulation before site, and full documentation at handover.

01Robot cells and robot integration

02Assembly and conveyor line control

03Machine and robot safety systems

04Part tracking and traceability

05Line HMIs, alarms and production reporting

06Maintenance reporting and diagnostics

How we help

What we bring to Automotive

Production cannot wait for commissioning. We prove robot cell and line logic against a simulation before site, then install and commission in planned shutdowns, with agreed fall-back positions. Your engineers get the documentation and training to keep the line running and to make changes safely.

Upgrades

Standards

The standards that shape your project

The standards listed are those most often relevant to control-system work in this sector. Which apply to your project, and how, is agreed with you at specification stage.

Standard	What it covers	How we work with it
IATF 16949	Quality management for automotive production and service parts organisations, built on ISO 9001.	Control systems that support your process control, traceability and change management, with records to match.
ISO 10218-1 and -2 (2025)	Safety of industrial robots, and of robot applications and cells, including collaborative applications.	Robot cells, guarding, safety zones and interlocks designed to the requirements for the robot application.
BS EN ISO 13849-1	Safety-related parts of machine control systems, rated by performance level (PL).	Safety functions designed to the performance level your risk assessment requires, then validated and documented.
BS EN 60204-1	Electrical equipment of machines: wiring, control circuits, emergency stops and documentation.	Our electrical and panel designs follow it, from protective bonding to stop categories.
VDA 6.3	The German automotive industry's process audit, used by many manufacturers to assess suppliers' production processes.	Process data, alarms and traceability designed to give your auditors the evidence they look for.
OEM controls standards	Vehicle manufacturers' own specifications for PLCs, robots, HMIs, safety and code structure.	We work to the OEM standard your project calls up, alongside your own site conventions.