Automated machine tending: How to save 23% on production costs and increase throughput by 43%

Toolcraft, a small machine shop in Seattle, Washington, was immediately won over by the 30 micron repeatability and built-in force/torque sensing in Universal Robots’ line of cobots. The company needed to automate a challenging, three-operation machine tending task inside its CNC machine and has now saved 23 percent on production costs and increased throughput by 43 percent by using the UR5e cobot.