Dynamic Group had difficulty staffing their injection molding production and wanted to make better use of their existing labor force. Three collaborative robot arms from Universal Robots have now taken over several repetitive tasks resulting in improved product consistency and production capacity increases of up to 400%.
Tending an injection molding machining cycle is labor intensive and requires high consistency in handling due to the heat sensitive material being molded. The applications at Dynamic Group were fast paced and operators had a hard time keeping up, resulting in ruined parts with uptime difficult to achieve.
This led Dynamic Group to look for a flexible automation solution that could be moved from application to application addressing the company’s high mix/low volume production. A solution CEO Joe McGillivray assumed would cost “hundreds of thousands of dollars and require expensive external programmers.”