Friedrich Amtenbrink mentioned the EasyGrinder grinding robotic has streamlined manufacturing processes. | Supply: Teqram
Teqram BV this week introduced Friedrich Amtenbrink GmbH has deployed its EasyGrinder grinding robotic. Since late 2024, the EasyGrinder has been answerable for post-processing as much as 1,500 flame-cut and plasma-cut components per day.
For over 55 years, Friedrich Amtenbrink has supplied high-quality metal processing. With a workforce of greater than 120 staff, the firm mentioned it supplies providers corresponding to flame, plasma, and laser reducing, along with device metal processing. The Gütersloh, Germany-based firm has purchasers in mechanical and power engineering, agricultural equipment, automotive provide, and valve manufacturing.
Publish-processing is a extremely handbook course of involving 4 distinct steps with a number of dealing with operations. Friedrich Amtenbrink mentioned this was each time-consuming and bodily demanding for workers.
Teqram brings intensive sheet metallic expertise
Friedrich Amtenbrink turned to Teqram to automate this demanding course of. It mentioned the EasyGrinder robotic automates the processing of oxyacetylene and plasma-cut elements starting from 3⁄4 in. to 4 in. (1.9 to 10.1 cm), with out requiring complicated programming.
Teqram mentioned its robotic can effectively take away slag, break edges, grind bevels, and apply marking for half identification, all with none handbook intervention.
Which means that after the preliminary shot blasting course of, the EasyGrinder autonomously completes all subsequent steps. For Friedrich Amtenbrink, this not solely saves time but additionally considerably reduces bodily pressure on the workforce.
Teqram was based as a spin-off from a sheet metallic processing firm. It develops and provides robots for loading and unloading, deburring, leveling, and shot-blasting methods, in addition to for de-slagging, grinding, and deburring sheet metallic components.
Geared up with the superior EasyEye 3D imaginative and prescient system and AI-based controller, Teqram’s robots function totally autonomously. They routinely acknowledge pallets, stacks, and product geometries, eliminating the necessity for handbook programming, it mentioned.
Friedrich Amtenbrink will increase productiveness, lowers headcount
Friedrich Amtenbrink mentioned the EasyGrinder’s capabilities have been particularly evident in a batch of 400 elements, every weighing 110 lb. (49.8 kg), requiring dot-peening earlier than supply. This job would sometimes have taken a minimum of two handbook shifts.
Nevertheless, the EasyGrinder accomplished all the batch in a single day, totally automated. Even heavy laser-cut components, initially deemed unsuitable for robotic processing, have been effectively dealt with. Whereas an current deburring machine might have carried out the duty, it will have required an worker and an overhead crane for extended durations because of the weight.
Because of this funding, Amtenbrink mentioned it has not solely optimized manufacturing but additionally diminished its reliance on non permanent employees. The corporate changed three non permanent employees with the robotic.
“Discovering new non permanent employees for this demanding and unpopular job was a relentless problem,” mentioned Sultan Nayebi, an operations supervisor at Amtenbrink. “With the EasyGrinder, we now have a sustainable answer.”
The corporate’s everlasting staff have been additionally impressed. “It seems like we’ve a brand new colleague who by no means tires and takes on the hardest jobs. This permits us to give attention to extra important duties,” one mentioned.
EasyGrinder identifies components and picks them up with magnetic grippers. It processes components autonomously utilizing instruments from its automated device changer. | Supply: Teqram
