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The challenge Workers involved in the manufacturing of quartz based products were handling high temperature heat treatment processes, with a high risk of accidents and production errors that were impacting on product quality   The solution ABB robots at the company’s plant in Hue in Vietnam handle the heat treatment process to ensure products are finished to the highest quality whilst safeguarding

ABB Measurement & Analytics has transformed the warehouse operations at its instrumentation factory in Ossuccio by introducing a fully automated storage and retrieval system.

Dutch manufacturer EeStairs’ new solution reduces production time from four hours to one for its range of compact spiral staircases. The challenge  Staircase manufacturer EeStairs needed an automated solution to increase the production capacity for its 1m2™ range of spiral staircases. It also wanted to offer a variety of customizable options without its operators having to reprogram the robots

The challenge Italian manufacturer Fedegari Group wanted to cut the time needed to produce large autoclave pressure vessels for the pharmaceutical industry. Strict international standards preventing alterations to the welding process speed or voltage meant that the efficiency of the process itself needed to be enhanced. The solution ABB supplied two flexible welding cells based on ABB gantry

Application  Collaborative robots carry out fully automated gas leak detection and electrical testing as part of the quality control procedures for refrigerators manufactured by Electrolux Group in Brazil.      The challenge  Electrolux wanted to improve productivity and quality control by automating the previous manual testing regime for gas leaks on its refrigerator production line. The

ABB GoFa™ cobot helps German specialist engineering company METEC to double its capacity for CNC turned and machined components.

Two ABB GoFa™ cobots have helped a metal products manufacturer to overcome a shortage of skilled welders, enabling it to increase capacity and ensure consistent high quality to meet growing customer demand.

Can humans and machines work together safely, without the need to be separated from each other by safety zones and cages? ZKW Lichtsysteme in Austria shows that they can. Working together on a variety of workpieces on the production lines of the automotive supplier are twelve collaborative robots from ABB along with production employees. This not only saves money, but it also makes efficient

Tight cycle times are the order of the day in analytical laboratories, because entire process chains in the economy depend on a punctual and accurate result. In order to analyze a higher number of samples while maintaining a consistently high quality and to relieve the burden on the laboratory staff, Eurofins Dr. Specht Express GmbH automates its pesticide analysis with a robot system. They

Application:Assembly of aluminum die-cast parts at SUS Corporation in Japan Challenges:The company has struggled to find staff willing to carry out the monotonous and repetitive tasks involved in the assembly process. Variations in operator skills have also resulted in production falling below the company’s desired target of one million pieces per month. Solution:Developed using ABB’s RobotStudio®