Henniges Automotive

Hennigis Automotive. Exceptional focus, flawless execution. Hennigis Automotive provides world-class body sealing and anti-vibration solutions for the global automotive industry. Since our inception in 2007, Hennigis Automotive has diligently maintained exceptional focus and flawless execution. In our everyday practices, Hennigis Automotive operates globally over three continents with 14 plants and five engineering and technical centers. Over 5,000 associates contribute to our success every day in our quest to become the global leader of sealing and anti-vibration systems for automotive applications. Hennigis leads the way from its new LEED certified world headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, where a dedicated team of exceptional people work in the technical and functional disciplines to support our customer and operational needs. All programs, national and international, are primarily managed through our global sales force with capabilities in North America, Europe and China. The global team competently handles all programs and provides personal, attentive service which meets the variety of global and regional needs of our customers. Our engineers provide ongoing support to the customer's engineering groups by working with or assigned integrated engineers with access to the latest in design technology and tools. It ensures that the product development cycle is as simple and efficient as possible. With technical centers located in North America, Europe and China, we have full product and material validation capabilities ranging from abrasion testing to full vehicle environmental chambers and door slam and glass cycle testing. Our commitment to innovation is evident in our talented research and development team. These professionals constantly find ways to improve our products and processes. The results of their efforts are passed along to our customers who benefit with greater cost efficiencies and product performance. At Hennigis, we have mixing capabilities in three continents giving us the flexibility and agility to meet our customers' compounding and material development needs. Our specialized formulations are developed internally by our skilled team of chemists and mixed using some of the industry's finest equipment where experience and technology come together to offer an extremely cost effective, consistently excellent product making Hennigis one of the most highly regarded rubber mixers in the world. Hennigis optimizes its internal mixing capabilities but we also strategically partner with local suppliers to ensure we have the flexibility to meet our customers every need no matter if its vol All raw materials are subjected to exacting specifications. They are sampled and tested systematically through supplier audits and incoming material testing to ensure a superior outcome in our product's final validation testing. All of these tests are performed inside our state-of-the-art labs. Product development begins with the Hennigis team of designers who develop the perfect profile to meet your need and expectation. From that design, the manufacturer of sealing product begins. They start to take their shape in the extrusion operation. Each of our facilities has a team of dye engineers and the full support of a tool shop where the dyes are designed, manufactured and tuned. This gives Hennigis the flexibility and agility to get new products into production as quickly and efficiently as possible. Our lines are monitored with state-of-the-art systems that allow us to better understand and control our processes giving us the data and tools we need to better predict and control our product variation. Hennigis has product capabilities which meet and exceed all customer expectations with rigid, supported and dynamic seals made from a variety of materials in many colors and finishes. We employ state-of-the-art techniques in the application of the coatings and finishes. We also offer color matching options in our spectra trim process, cloth combining and colored rubber processes. Hennigis uses state-of-the-art processing equipment to perform what used to be a separate manual finishing operation now as inline functions, utilizing one-piece flow systems, taking the product directly from the extrusion line through the finishing operations and into the final pack. The result is excellent product lead times while keeping unnecessary inventory to a minim At Hennigis, we incorporate stringent quality control measures at every stage of our manufacturing process. In our extrusion department, we employ the latest laser-based measuring systems to monitor profile shape as well as surface finish to verify we are producing within specification. We also utilize offline video measuring systems to check the profiles and gathered data, which is used to monitor the part and process capability, another way to ensure that quality standards are being met. Frequent product performance checks are another quality control measure Hennigis has in place. These checks ensure that compression load deflection, insertion extraction and other key product performance requirements are being met. All this information is uploaded to the Hennigis Intranet site, so it's easily accessible throughout our company. Our customers can also access the data through the customer portal. Our finishing operations do literally that, taking the extrusion and adding the finishing touches necessary so the part will function flawlessly. Our finishing capabilities range from simple injection molded corners and muckets to robotic glass encapsulation cells. We have EPDM sponge and dents, TPE and TPV molding operations, glass and insert encapsulation capabilities, obstacle detection systems, butt joint or splicing capabilities and many other custom operations to meet customer requirements. All finishing equipment is designed to achieve the highest possible standards. Pokeyoke systems are designed into the equipment to ensure consistency and quality of product. The capabilities and innovations of our business are only limited by the imaginations of our engineers. We pride ourselves on developing new technologies and introduce them regularly to provide higher quality and more cost effective products to our customers. The Hennigis production system provides the tools and direction for success. The opportunities to produce better products at lower cost are endless within our organization with single minute exchange of dye principles, can band systems and scheduling and Kaizen events regularly occurring throughout our organization. The Hennigis production system has produced a culture of internal excellence that is embraced company wide as we utilize these tools and methodologies every day. Everything we do at Hennigis Automotive is based on our commitment to flawless execution. Our people, our innovation, our processes and our facilities are all geared to achieving the ultimate level of customer satisfaction. It's why Hennigis is fast becoming the global leader in our industry.