AESSEAL announces £9.7m investment in robots at its "Factory for the Future"
The investment is aimed at helping the company to increase productivity by automating mundane processes, freeing up people for highly skilled work.Engineering director, Stephen Shaw, said: “This business has always invested extremely heavily in technology. The surprising thing is that the more we have invested in productivity, the more people the company has employed. It is just that the jobs that people do become less repetitive and therefore less boring, Our CNC machinists are becoming manufacturing engineers.”Most of the investment will be spent on six robotic machine tool cells valued at £1.25 million each. These robots will be able to produce parts that are in tolerance without the need for human inspection.
The remainder is being spent on 26 auto-store robots to automate the process of storage and retrieval of the company’s engineering products and will be commissioned in 2023.AESSEAL's “Factory for the Future” is largely complete and is already part occupied.David Montero, who has managed the project, said: “When complete the factory is intended to be an architectural and mechanical and electrical masterpiece. It will be a window to the world of modern manufacturing full of advanced technology and great people.”