Automating gives badge engineets a lead

摘要

A manufacturer of custom moulded plastic novelties has boosted its manufacturing performance by over 100% with the installation of an ABB robot-based manufacturing cell at its factory. A GeKu manufacturing cell - com-prising an ABB six-axis IRB 140 robot, Krauss Maffei plastic injec- tion moulding machine, GeKu beam robot, conveyors, and pneumatic printing press - is helping a manufacturer of custom moulded plastic novelties, Characteristix, to stay competitive, even when pitted against the Far East 'giants' of the industry.