A Pennsylvania job shop boosts its production capacity with the addition of automated material handling and a panel bender to its punching/shearing machine.
Metal fabricating companies looking for the right fit in their organizations has been a consistent challenge over the years.
In 2020, Raytec decided to pursue full automation. It installed a 14-station tower to feed the punch/shear cell, which replaced a single pallet loading and unloading system; a Prima Power servo-electric EBe Express Bender; a picking and stacking robot to help with parts coming off the SGe; and a buffering station between the two cells to ensure that workpieces flowed smoothly from one station to another.
