By Redação AutoIndústria | Translated by Jorge Meditsch
Mercedes-Benz do Brasil is celebrating the mark of 350 thousand engines exported since the company began to send them abroad. Made in the plant of São Bernardo do Campo, SP, the engines are used in Daimler Truck vehicles in Germany, Argentina, United States and Mexico, as well as sent to the five continents in Mercedes-Benz trucks and vans.
Some Freightliner trucks, for example, use Brazilian engines. Also, in German, vehicles for agriculture and mining are made with engines made in Brazil.
“We started to export engines in 1998, and volumes did not stop growing, reaching record numbers in 2004 and 2008. We even exported more than 50 thousand engines in a single year”, says Achim Puchert, president of Mercedes-Benz do Brasil. “We exported the portfolio for Germany, which receives Euro 3 engines for vehicles meeting diverse markets.”
As in the truck, cabins and bus chassis plants, the engine production line has also received updates with 4.0 industry tools and concepts. Digitalization, connectivity, on-cloud data, Big Data and IoT raised the bar of the unit.
“The current Engine Line is more efficient in production than the previous and faster to deliver”, tells Celso Salles, trucks and aggregated production director. “Moreover, it gained in efficiency and logistics due to the application of AGVs (automated guided vehicles) and storage close to the point of use.”
The most recent novelty in the line is the production of engines meeting the new phase of Proconve, equivalent to Euro 6, which increased the assembly complexity with more robust post-treatment system elements. Besides the Euro 6 engines, the plant of São Bernardo keeps producing Euro 3 and Euro 5 to meet the legislation in markets from Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
Photo: Mercedes-Benz
