Kit car maker cuts its costs September 1st 2008 A robotic routing system from KMT
Robotic Solutions has helped
Factory Five Racing, maker of
component car kits, to improve
part quality by more than 200%
and reduce trim time by more than
95%.
Replacing a hand trimming
process, the fully-enclosed robotic
router system from KMT Robotic
Solutions offers the flexibility to trim
each of Factory Five's seven parts.
The system features a rail-mounted
M-710iB FANUC robot with parts
presented to the robot on a fixture
cart equipped with a uniquelyencoded
ID tag that identifies the
trimming program for the part,
improving quality and reducing
production time. The
interchangeable router bits are
powered by a 7 kW electric
spindle. The process of trimming
four sets of panels that used to
take 7.5h now takes just 24min. More articles from KMT Robotic Solutions: |