Brief introduction:
Heemskerk is a medium-sized, high-precision component manufacturer and one of the first producers in the Netherlands to use cobots. For more than a decade, Heemskerk has relied on cobots for automated production. The UR robot loads the CNC machine and sorts out the workpiece. By taking over these repetitive and monotonous tasks, the robot can free qualified workers from tedious and laborious tasks, which not only optimizes the working environment, but also avoids the loss of employees.
Challenge:
The Netherlands company was constantly changing in batches and variety, and the machines had to be programmed from scratch to meet the needs of each order. Small volume orders mean that you need to program from scratch every day.
The production cycle of CNC machine tools is generally long, so the lengthy task of loading the machine occupies the valuable working time of skilled workers.
Lucien Heemskerk, owner and technical director of Heemskerk, explains: "In order to remain internationally competitive, we need to work efficiently and we need a lot of production moments, and to maintain production in the Netherlands, we need to be creative, think outside the box and choose to do things differently. ”
Solution:
Heemskerk's logical process is to use automation to put an end to tedious and monotonous tasks, such as loading CNC machines or finishing workpieces. About 10 years ago, the medium-sized company initially turned to UR robots for these tasks.
The UR robot is easy to operate and has become the aspiring choice for ever-changing product orders as well as small batch orders as soon as it was launched. The robot's intuitive user interface allows every employee to quickly and easily program the cobot without any prior experience with robotics. As a result, UR robots will soon be able to handle multi-category/low-volume production tasks. Because cobots don't need any space-taking fences, they can be placed next to employees after the risk assessment, simplifying the production process and making the products fully functional.
Knowing these advantages, Heemskerk integrated one of the first cobots in the Netherlands, a UR5 robot with a blast for cleaning workpieces, thanks to its long-time partner Gibas Automation B.V., who is also a UR system integrator. To this day, the robot is still doing this job. In the past 10 years, this robot has successively had several new partners. Heemskerk now operates a total of eight UR robots, including one UR5 robot and seven UR10 robots. Among them, 5 UR10 robots are loaded with different kinds of CNC machine tools. The other 2 UR10 robots clean the workpiece together with 1 industrial robot.
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