To prevent bottlenecks at the deburring/edge-rounding/finishing machines, Timesavers expands its use of robotics
Maintaining a fully staffed shop floor is getting more difficult for metal fabricators, with hiring difficulties and trying to balance time-off requests with a limited staff, and that means they are looking to take the next step in automation.
Just look at the deburring of laser- and plasma-cut parts. Only five years ago, a fab shop with a collection of workers manually grinding these parts as they came off the cutting table was a familiar sight. Per customer request, the parts had to have clean edges to […]
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