Linatex produces plastic components found in everything from artificial hips to aeroplanes and wind turbines. This versatility often means that batches are extremely small and requires that production equipment can be reprogrammed both quickly and easily to adapt to the different tasks.
For almost a decade, Jørn Trustrup, product manager at Linatex, had been trying to find a low cost robot that would meet the requirements in a profitable way but so far in vain: “A robot quickly comes to half a million kroner when you need consultants to install it – and when you also need specialists to operate and programme it the idea quickly goes out the window”.