Being located in a region with low unemployment meant that EVCO had trouble staffing the third shift in the company’s 24/7 production. Manning cells with repetitive and tedious tasks, handling parts assembly, machine tending, and packaging was especially hard. The company did not want complex, fixed automation with safety guarding that would take up valuable real estate on an already tightly packed factory floor. EVCO was also looking for a versatile automation solution that could be applied to several jobs with costs spread out between different customers
EVCO Plastics
EVCO Plastics Puts Cobot Colleagues to Work, Improves Work Environment and Throughput
EVCO Plastics in DeForest, Wisconsin is a custom injection molder facing the challenge of having to staff round-the-clock production with fast-changing processes. A mobile fleet of Universal Robots now handles a wide range of tasks such as dispensing, assembly, quality inspection, harvesting of 3D printers and packaging. Deploying the UR cobots was fast and easy thanks to the seamless integration with UR+ certified products such as force/torque sensors, vision cameras and part feeders.