Specma Automation - From Greenfield to a Position of Leadership
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In just a few short years, Specma Automation has grown to become a leading systems provider in Scandinavia. Situated between Sweden’s two great lakes, V?nern and V?ttern, the company has installed over 300 robots in its first decade of operation. Specma started out integrating Panasonic robots for machine tending of finishing operations. While machine tending is still a vital part of the company’s business, foundry automation has caught on in a big way. Enter robotics: in 1994, following a contract with ABB to integrate the robots of the Swedish/Swiss giant, business really started to pick up for Specma. A year later, the company made its first foundry installation, with five robots automating high-pressure die-casting machines. Numerous foundry projects have followed, including installations for extraction and spraying within high-pressure die-casting and for de-gating and de-burring low-pressure castings. 1998 saw Specma break new ground in the heavy cleaning of castings, employing the novel Tricept technology. Successful installations at Fundo in Sweden, Alcoa in Norway and Jydsk in Denmark are testimony to the high-grade competence Specma delivers. Involved at an early stage: the foundation for success in robot integration is laid early in a project, says Anders Nilsson, Sales Manager at Specma. Getting involved already at the design stage enables us to optimise our concept to fit subsequent production stages, too. A Fundo project, where two Tricept cells de-gate and de-burr transmission housings, is a case in point. Specma helped design the gates and risers in order to create an optimal shape for future cleaning operations.
General

Country	Sweden
Product Category	Robotics

Reference Facts

Industry	Foundry
Application	Cutting/Finishing Material Handling Machine Tending
Customer End Products	Automotive Parts
Robotics Product	Industrial Robot Robot Controller Software Product - RobotStudio
Manufacturing Processes	Die Casting Other