Robot handling instead of manual chucking.

Besides developing its own machines for cutting and wrapping foil and film, on behalf of technology companies in all sectors FAES produces precision parts, assemblies and complete machines.

The automation of processes and production is constantly being driven forwards with the goal of being able to offer customers Swiss quality at East European prices. Its latest investment, a high-performance NZX 2000 | 800SY2 turning centre and a WH25 handling robot, have been ensuring dynamic automated production of small batches with minimised loading times. ‘With this latest investment we boosted our productivity by almost 30 %’, explains COO Matthias Weibel. The handling robot allows set-up during machining and gives us the option to produce automatically. ‘Whereas on a milling machine we sometimes had to handle a part up to four times during manufacture, with the new NZX and thanks to set-up during machining, we now save half the time’, says Daniel Beeler, Production Manager at FAES. It is clear to Beeler that for many components, machining from bar is much more efficient than machining on a milling centre. That’s why the turning centre was equipped with a short bar loader.