Robot systems

Fully automated staircase factory in Finland

Aru Grupp AS

A man with a visi­on: Juhan Viise, Mana­ging Direc­tor of the ARU Group, has set hims­elf the goal of deve­lo­ping his com­pa­ny into the most modern, ful­ly auto­ma­ted stair­ca­se plant in the who­le of Euro­pe over the next few years. Given a total flo­or space of about 15 x 20 meters inclu­ding the EEPI robot, which can hand­le door lea­ves weig­hing up to 150 kg with its com­plex grip­per sys­tem, the CNC sys­tem now has two 5‑axis working units with two tool chan­gers with 24 places, each, and two 3‑axis units, which are ser­viced via two 12-place tool chan­gers. Thus, ARU’s machi­nery is sta­te of the art and per­fect­ly pre­pared for the future.

The future of staircase construction

ATAB-Trappan AB

Stair­ca­se manu­fac­tu­rer ATAB in Agun­na­ryd, Swe­den, reli­es on robot and nes­t­ing solu­ti­ons for the effi­ci­ent pro­duc­tion of up to 55 stair­ca­ses per week. The pro­duc­tion con­cept includes four CNC machi­nes, two of which are fed by robots. Auto­ma­ted pro­duc­tion also makes night shifts pos­si­ble. The two robots ope­ra­te auto­no­mously, which gives the com­pa­ny an enorm­ous com­pe­ti­ti­ve advan­ta­ge: in addi­ti­on to saving time and money, the com­pa­ny can use the freed-up employee capa­ci­ties for other purposes.

A door at your fingertips

PRÜM Türenwerk GmbH

A more fle­xi­ble, fas­ter and more effi­ci­ent pro­duc­tion pro­cess – that was the goal of door spe­cia­list PRÜM. To this end, the com­pa­ny com­mis­sio­ned us with a pro­duc­tion sys­tem that has set new stan­dards in terms of com­ple­xi­ty and speed.
We crea­ted a CNC machi­ning cen­ter of the VISION-III-TT‑U type, which has been cus­to­mi­zed to the needs of PRÜM. At the heart of the sys­tem are two inde­pen­dent 5‑axis heads. While one head is dril­ling, for exam­p­le, the hole for a door peep-hole, the other can alre­a­dy be set up for the next work step, for exam­p­le the mil­ling of light cut-outs.The MC uses the same prin­ci­ple with two pin tables. “Pins” are con­trol­led in such a way that each door can be clam­ped indi­vi­du­al­ly as requi­red by the pro­ces­sing pro­fi­le. As the­re are two work sta­ti­ons, the robot can also set up a door while work is being car­ri­ed out on the other work station.