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Automated wire confection: Is your department up to speed yet?
Are you facing a shortage of technically skilled staff, high labour costs or competition from Eastern Europe? Do you find it difficult to achieve the expected quality of your final product? Then it’s time to look at automated wire confection solutions!
Why automate?
Automation offers numerous benefits for your wire assembly:
- Efficiency improvement: Repetitive tasks are accelerated and simplified, leading to higher productivity.
- Quality control: Consistency in production processes reduces the risk of errors.
- Cost savings: An investment in automation results in shorter production times and less loss of raw materials
- Flexibility and scalability: Automated systems can be easily adapted to changing production requirements and increasing demand.
- Competitive advantage: In a competitive market, automated companies respond much faster to customer needs.
How to tackle it?
- Analyse the current situation:
- Review your current workforce. Put technically skilled staff where they really add value and supplement with non-technically skilled staff.
- What numbers need to be made? Are they series or one-offs?
- Financial planning:
- Determine your investment budget and think both short-term and long-term here.
- Investigate the options:
- Which machines are needed? Choose between semi-automated or fully automated.
- Are there companies that are already automated and can supply you?
- Find a good partner:
- Get guidance from experts. We are happy to help you step by step with analysis, advice and installation.
- Staff training:
- Get in-depth insight into the processes behind your product. Our Smans Academy can help with this.
Dare to automate!
Surround yourself with good partners and take steps towards an automated future!
