One hour setup time for 100 hours of unmanned production at Hertenberger Solutions

Imagine: 1 hour of setting up the robot to then run it for 100 hours. For Hertenberger Solutions, a specialist in manufacturing precision components, this is now the standard. They added the RoboJob Tower to their machine park and it takes Heller HF3500 production to the next level.

Large production cycles without interruption, flexible handling of High Mix, Low Volume and unmanned machining. This is what Hertenberger employees tested CNC automation solutions against during their search. After all, they too have to find an answer to their customers' changing production needs. And this is where flexibility comes in.

Holger Völk, Geschäftsführer of Hertenberger Solutions, emphasises the importance of this flexibility: "Thanks to the generous workpiece storage space, we can react quickly to changing production requirements. In a recent order, we produced 300 components in just 100 hours, with a set-up time of less than one hour. With this flexibility, we are consolidating our market position and increasing our competitiveness."

The storage capacity and its endurance are not the only reasons why Hertenberger chose this type of CNC automation. "The RoboJob Tower is also easy to operate by less experienced workers because the 3D programming process is self-explanatory. As a result, all our operators can quickly make adjustments to the production process so that we can produce around the clock."

The operators were able to programme the Tower independently after two days of training and it has since earned its stripes in the team. Integration with the Heller HF3500 also went smoothly: thanks to the close cooperation between Hertenberger and RoboJob, the Tower and the CNC machine communicated at record speed.

Völk concludes: "The RoboJob Tower helped us make significant progress in productivity, flexibility and efficiency. We are very satisfied with RoboJob as a partner and look forward to further projects in the future."