Friedrich Amtenbrink stated 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 chargeable for post-processing as much as 1,500 flame-cut and plasma-cut components per day.
For over 55 years, Friedrich Amtenbrink has offered high-quality metal processing. With a workforce of greater than 120 workers, the firm stated it supplies providers equivalent to flame, plasma, and laser reducing, along with device metal processing. The Gütersloh, Germany-based firm has shoppers in mechanical and gear engineering, agricultural equipment, automotive provide, and valve manufacturing.
Submit-processing is a extremely handbook course of involving 4 distinct steps with a number of dealing with operations. Friedrich Amtenbrink stated this was each time-consuming and bodily demanding for workers.
Teqram brings intensive sheet steel expertise
Friedrich Amtenbrink turned to Teqram to automate this demanding course of. It stated the EasyGrinder robotic automates the processing of oxyacetylene and plasma-cut parts starting from 3⁄4 in. to 4 in. (1.9 to 10.1 cm), with out requiring complicated programming.
Teqram stated its robotic can effectively take away slag, break edges, grind bevels, and apply marking for half identification, all with none handbook intervention.
Because of this 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 steel processing firm. It develops and provides robots for loading and unloading, deburring, leveling, and shot-blasting techniques, in addition to for de-slagging, grinding, and deburring sheet steel components.
Outfitted with the superior EasyEye 3D imaginative and prescient system and AI-based controller, Teqram’s robots function absolutely autonomously. They routinely acknowledge pallets, stacks, and product geometries, eliminating the necessity for handbook programming, it stated.
Friedrich Amtenbrink will increase productiveness, lowers headcount
Friedrich Amtenbrink stated the EasyGrinder’s capabilities had been particularly evident in a batch of 400 parts, every weighing 110 lb. (49.8 kg), requiring dot-peening earlier than supply. This job would sometimes have taken at the very least two handbook shifts.
Nonetheless, the EasyGrinder accomplished all the batch in a single day, absolutely automated. Even heavy laser-cut components, initially deemed unsuitable for robotic processing, had 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 intervals as a result of weight.
Due to this funding, Amtenbrink stated it has not solely optimized manufacturing but additionally decreased 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,” stated Sultan Nayebi, an operations supervisor at Amtenbrink. “With the EasyGrinder, we now have a sustainable resolution.”
The corporate’s everlasting workers had been additionally impressed. “It appears like we now have a brand new colleague who by no means tires and takes on the hardest jobs. This permits us to concentrate on extra essential duties,” one stated.
EasyGrinder identifies components and picks them up with magnetic grippers. It processes components autonomously utilizing instruments from its automated device changer. | Supply: Teqram
