Agricultural machinery welding cell

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Key

Results

01

Welding time cut by 66%

02

No job losses

03

Upskilled staff

Client

Overview

N/A

Turnover

100-249

Company Size

Management

Project Lead

Installation Time

1 week

Industry Sector

Task

Business Problem

Shelbourne Reynolds has been designing & manufacturing farm machinery since 1972

The 110,000 square foot factory is on a 5 acre site is in rural Stanton near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England and currently employs 150 people.

User Brief

Solution

Results

Shelbourne Reynolds timed the welding tasks to establish a cut off point

Anything that took an hour or more to weld was to be allocated to a robot cell

"The decision on which tasks to automate with the robot was based on the amount of time they took compared to our existing process and the potential savings that could be achieved," explains Michae...

Sources: https://new.abb.com/news/detail/11776/integrated-welding-cell-helps-major-agricultural-machinery-manufacturer-to-cut-production-times-by-two-thirds