A contract manufacturer expands its capacity using various approaches to feeding the machines.
Machine tool automation is not a new idea at Aztalan Engineering of Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Instead, for this contract manufacturer, using automation to load and unload parts is an established practice. In the 1990s, the company took over production of a set of components from another shop, buying and installing the two robot-loaded CNC lathes this previous shop had used. The cell delivers high productivity to this day. And yet, the experience with these robots did not mean that the third lathe added to this cell would get a robot of its own.
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