At a glance
- Company: AVK Gummi A/S
- Country: Denmark
- Employees: 200+
- Industry: High performance rubber components
- Website: www.avkgummi.dk
Process automated
- Pickup pallets with tools from the tooling department and deliver them to different machines in the production area (A → B → C → D).
- Pickup finished goods from the production area and deliver them to the shipping department.
Benefits
- Short implementation time.
- Fully integrated solution.
- Flexible and agile robot.
- Safe and easy operation.
- Staff can focus on working at their machines and do not have to go and pick up tools.
- Extraction of valuable data and reports.
Overview
AVK Gummi produces high-performance rubber components for various industry sectors
at their facility in Laasby, Denmark.
As part of their LEAN and Industry 4.0 initiatives, AVK Gummi deployed a GoPal 400 to transport pallets with tools from the tooling department to different machines in the production area. This optimises the tooling flow and frees up staff to remain at their machines instead of making runs to and from the tooling department.
The GoPal solution is also responsible for moving finished goods from the production area to the shipping department.
The Challenge
AVK Gummi was looking for an easy, fast, and safe solution to automate their internal material transport and improve their internal logistics.
“In terms of safety, it is an improvement on regular forklifts. The robot is very careful around staff. Operation has been simple so far. We are already profiting from having automated our internal pallet transport.”
- Kresten Krogh, Production Manager at AVK Gummi
The Solution
AVK Gummi invited Robotize to test drive robots on their premises very early on in the GoPal product development phase, and this close cooperation has now led to the implementation of a GoPal solution.
The GoPal AMR is easy to use, fast to install, and safe among people. These characteristics brought significant benefits to the internal pallet transport department at AVK Gummi.
“Both operation and maintenance have been simple so far. In the future, we would like to get more collaborative robots, which can work together.”
- Kresten Krogh, Production Manager at AVK Gummi
About AVK Gummi
AVK Gummi (rubber) produces injection moulded and compression moulded rubber components. They also develop customised rubber compounds and rubber items to specific requirements. Their product portfolio also comprises many different composite components in which rubber is vulcanised with other materials, such as stainless steel, metal, plastic and fabric.