Established at the dawn of the millennium, Oberon Performance has gained a global reputation for the premium quality of its range of motorcycle accessories, which include adjustable levers, billet headlights, brake and clutch lever protectors, clutch slave cylinders, mirror extenders, foot-peg kits, and handlebar risers.
To ensure that the company’s busy Haas multi-axis CNC milling machine was able to reach its full productive potential and keep pace with demand, Oberon Performance director Steve Evans recently investigated machine tool automation aids. Having compared the products of several leading providers, the company purchased a Robo-Trex automation system from Lang Technik UK.
“When compared with the new machine tool we contemplated, our recently installed Lang system occupies a much smaller footprint,” says Evans. “Furthermore, it cost a fraction of the price and it has helped us to achieve the same increase in production as the new machine would have.”
He adds: “Operating unattended and fed by the Lang Robo-Trex system, our Haas machine now runs unattended through each shift. Then, when required, at the end of a working day, we’re able to restock our Robo-Trex trollies with batches of workpiece blanks, allowing the machine to maintain unmanned production in lights-out mode through the night.
The Lang Robo-Trex robot system uses two high-capacity trollies that act as mobile storage mediums for multiple Lang vices which hold workpiece blanks. Notably, the system’s operation is logical and trouble-free: a robot picks a vice from the trolley, loads it into the machine tool and,once machining is complete, returns the vice holding the completed component to the trolley. When filled with fully machined parts, the trolley is removed and a replacement loaded with ready-to-machine workpiece blanks is added.
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