Precision Metal Industries Adopts Flexxbotics
February 1, 2025
Flexxbotics, delivering digital solutions for robot-driven manufacturing at scale, announced that Precision Metal Industries, a manufacturer specializing in precision sheet metal products, precision machining and complex mechanical or electromechanical assemblies, has selected Flexxbotics for advanced robotic machine tending to enable robot-driven manufacturing with autonomous process control in multimachine processes for greater unattended operation, increased capacity and even higher yields.
With Flexxbotics, Precision Metal Industries achieves a cellularized set-up with a single robot managing multiple factory machines, including a Haas VMC with tool breakage sensors and a CMM for in-line inspection along with deburring and cleaning blow-off stations. By increasing per shift throughput productivity and running an additional lights-out shift each day, an overall production capacity increase of 125% is achieved with a 17:1 machine-to-man ratio.
The Flexxbotics solution seamlessly connects the robot to each piece of equipment, coordinating the work so the robot has command and control of the machines in the work cell. Based on inspection results, closed-loop feedback corrections are provided to the CNC machine in real time for autonomous process control to maintain continuous operation while achieving tight tolerances.
"Our customers demand precision quality, and Flexxbotics takes advanced robot automation to the next level with autonomous process control," said Greg Wilson Jr, Owner of Precision Metal Industries. "We especially like Flexxbotics' ability to detect tool breakage and automate tool change to keep production running without downtime."
Precision Metal Industries selected Flexxbotics based on the following criteria:
- Open connectivity and interoperability between the robots, CNC machines, inspection equipment and other machinery
- In-line inspection for closed-loop quality with inspection results driving offset update adjustment corrections
- Intelligent recovery capability with tool breakage detection and automatic tool swap without downtime or human intervention
- Deburring operation to speed up production by enabling deburring to occur in parallel with CNC machining
- Analysis & reporting, including yield, utilization and downtime reasons for continuous improvement initiatives
- Intuitive HMI for simplified operation without robot programming
- Solution flexibility to scale out across the factory and quickly add additional robots.
For more information contact:
Flexxbotics
12 Channel St.
Boston, MA 02110
877-456-1576
www.flexxbotics.com
Precision Metal Industries
1408 SW 8th St.
Pompano Beach, FL 33069
954-942-6303
www.pmiquality.com
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