EDITOR’S CHOICE
MARCH OF THE ROBOTS
ARROWSMITH ENGINEERING
£200,000 ROBOTIC INVESTMENT HELPS ARROWSMITH
ENGINEERING DELIVER SOARING SALES
A leading Coventry aerospace supplier is
tapping into the ‘march of the robots’ to help
it capitalise on 20% growth over the last
twelve months.
Arrowsmith Engineering, which is part of the
AS.G Group, has invested over £200,000 into
a new Doosan 4th axis machining centre and
robotic cell that will help it boost production
speed and increase capacity by 50%.
The company is using ‘lights-out’
manufacturing to run a precision engine
part 24-hours a day, seven days per week,
supplying more than 200 components every
month to customers based in Spain and the
US.
Integrating robots into the process has
removed the need for a second machine,
freeing that up to cope with new contract
wins that have seen turnover soar to £7.5m
and the workforce grow a further 10% to
seventy people.
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