The modernisation of our largest press line is now in its final phase and will soon be operating at full capacity. This transformation opens the door to new challenges for our industrial group. Here we will manufacture some of the key parts of the Mercedes VAN-EA electric platform.
The time-lapse shows more than 6 months of intense work to replace the old presses with more advanced ones, transforming the hydraulic line into another with Fagor Arrasate’s link-drive technology. And the higher the stamping rate, the higher the palletising rate, which is now managed by a robotised system of four robots.
Our general manager, Ricardo Romo, summarised for a Basque newspaper the principles that guide this and other ambitious actions where ‘the firm commitment to digitalisation is essential to successfully carry out the change of model and achieve more flexibility and operational efficiency in the processes’. This digitalisation has a ‘clear focus on reducing the carbon footprint’, as in the case of the modernisation of the five-press tandem line that forms part of the “Industrial Decarbonisation 2024” programme. ‘This new press currently provides savings of 68% and triples the speed of the production cycle,’ explains Ricardo.
‘Digitalisation comes to offer us greater vision in decision making and greater flexibility and capacity in the use of large press lines’. This effort is summarised in a video of just over a minute and a half where we can see an example of the great transformation of Rubí.
Frame by frame, machine by machine and as our corporate slogan says, “Greatness is made piece by piece”.