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 accountable for post-processing as much as 1,500 flame-cut and plasma-cut elements per day.
For over 55 years, Friedrich Amtenbrink has offered high-quality metal processing. With a workforce of greater than 120 workers, the firm mentioned it gives providers akin to flame, plasma, and laser slicing, along with software 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 mentioned this was each time-consuming and bodily demanding for workers.
Teqram brings in depth 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 in addition 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 techniques, in addition to for de-slagging, grinding, and deburring sheet metallic elements.
Geared up with the superior EasyEye 3D imaginative and prescient system and AI-based controller, Teqram’s robots function totally autonomously. They mechanically 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 had 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 usually have taken a minimum of two handbook shifts.
Nevertheless, the EasyGrinder accomplished the complete batch in a single day, totally automated. Even heavy laser-cut elements, initially deemed unsuitable for robotic processing, had been effectively dealt with. Whereas an present deburring machine may have carried out the duty, it might have required an worker and an overhead crane for extended durations as a result of weight.
Because of this funding, Amtenbrink mentioned it has not solely optimized manufacturing but in addition diminished its reliance on momentary employees. The corporate changed three momentary employees with the robotic.
“Discovering new momentary 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 workers had been additionally impressed. “It appears like we’ve a brand new colleague who by no means tires and takes on the hardest jobs. This permits us to concentrate on extra crucial duties,” one mentioned.
EasyGrinder identifies elements and picks them up with magnetic grippers. It processes elements autonomously utilizing instruments from its computerized software changer. | Supply: Teqram
