When Whippany Actuation Systems experienced increased demand for specialized parts, they needed to increase productivity. Quickly. The company – a manufacturer of rotary and linear electrochemical actuation systems for the aerospace and defense industries– and its 170 employees faced some important choices: buy a new CNC machine, outsource the work, or introduce automation. Read more to learn what they chose to do.
“We were faced with an overloaded condition at certain work centers,” explains Phil DeMauro, manager of manufacturing engineering at Whippany. “One option would be to outsource some of those products to subcontract manufacturing rather than doing it where we would rather do it, which is in-house.”
With CNC machines costing sever thousands of dollars, Phil DeMauro and Russel Harter, manufacturing engineers at Whippany, took a trip in March 2015 to the Automate trade show in Chicago to explore the automation possibilities. That’s when they first encountered Universal Robots.
Eye-catching automation
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