Robot-Driven Manufacturing Enables “Lights-Out” Production

Robot-Driven Manufacturing Enables “Lights-Out” Production

Ruland Manufacturing adopted Flexxbotics for robot-driven manufacturing with autonomous process control to increase capacity to keep up with surging demand by enabling “lights-out” manufacturing.

The implementation of Flexxbotics solution provides Ruland Manufacturing with the following results:

  • 60% greater capacity
  • 82% utilization rate
  • 73% reduction in changeover time

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One of the challenges we’ve had with previous automation projects has been the complexity of the robot to machine interfacing which Flexxbotics solves.”

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Robot-Driven Manufacturing Achieves Autonomy in Medical Devices

Robot-Driven Manufacturing Achieves Autonomy in Medical Devices

This case study explores how SpiTrex Orthopedics, a leader in global medical device contract manufacturing, adopted the Flexxbotics solution for robot-driven manufacturing with autonomous process control in its FOBA laser marking machine workcells to achieve higher yields, greater capacity, and increased profit per part.

The implementation of Flexxbotics solution provides SpiTrex with the following results:

  • 83% reduction in changeover time 
  • 20% reduction in lead-time 
  • 10:1 machine to man ratio 
  • Horizontal and vertical integration

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Flexxbotics is the only robot machine tending solution we found capable of delivering the precision, cycle-time and closed-loop compliance required

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