Automated Transportation Systems
Heavy tooling for body and component work, where payload and reach decide the build long before cycle time does.
Heavy tooling for body and component work, where payload and reach decide the build long before cycle time does.
Parts are heavy, awkward and expensive, and they are placed to a tolerance that decides whether the next station can do its job at all.
A station here rarely stands alone. It hands off to the one after it, and the whole run is measured on how many bodies come off the end of the shift.
Payload and reach come first and set the size of everything else. A panel that weighs 30 kg on paper needs a tool that can hold it at arm's length without deflecting.
Placement tolerance is inherited from the station after this one. We take that figure from your process sheet rather than proposing our own.
Cycle time matters, but on this floor it is the third constraint, not the first.
Heavy tooling on a six-axis arm, usually as a retrofit into a line that cannot stop for a week. The tooling is wired and proven on our bench before the window opens.
Installation is planned around a shutdown, with the point of no return marked on the plan and the old setup boxed until the new one has run a full week at rate.
What engineers ask us whatever floor they run.
Can one supplier cover several of our plants?
Yes, and it usually costs less. The same tooling drawing runs at every site, and spares come from one part number rather than five.
Who writes the safety assessment?
We do, for the area the work alters rather than for the robot alone. It is written before the installation window opens and handed over with the drawings.
Do you visit the site before quoting?
For a station or a cell, yes. Fixing points, services and signal routes are surveyed before anything is cut, and the survey is not invoiced separately.
What happens if our part changes next year?
Contact faces are the part that changes. A new geometry usually means a new set of faces cut against it, not a new tool.
Can you work to our plant's own standard?
Tell us which standard the plant is audited to and the assessment is written against it. ISO 10218 is the baseline here, not the ceiling.
Do you work outside these five industries?
Yes. These five are where most of our work sits, but the question we ask is about the part and the rate, not the sector it belongs to.