Complete machining including real-time quality control.

The main Flygt production site is located in Sweden and was founded in 1901. Components are still produced at the original site, 98 percent of which are exported to the factories of the now American corporate group that are spread all over the world. The state-of-the-art plant is the platform for the high standard of quality of the products. The latest example of innovative production is an automation solution from DMG MORI Systems consisting of two CTX beta 800 lathes from GILDEMEISTER, one CTX beta 800 linear and a robot. Since 2013 Xylem has been machining shafts for waste water pumps in the stand-alone production cell – with signification benefits for productivity: loading and unloading is effected via two conveyors while the robot loads the workpieces into the machines for the individual machining steps – roughing, turning operations, finishing and groove and bore milling. Fredrik Gereborg, project manager at Xylem, is more than satisfied with the costsaving process: “Not only do the shafts come out of the production cell completely machined, but a measuring system is also integrated. Correction of dimensions is carried out automatically in real-time, making final quality control a thing of the past.”