ZF Lemforder Australia claims its four KUKA robots purchased from Headland Machinery has helped it reduce labour and decrease the total throughput time.
ZF Lemforder Australia claims its four KUKA robots purchased from Headland Machinery has helped it reduce labour and decrease the total throughput time.
ZF Lemforder was established in Australian in 2005. With 110 employees in Adelaide, and 125 sites in 26 countries, the company services the automotive industries, with customers like BMW, Audi, VW, General Motors Holden and Ford.
The Adelaide facility produces the chassis systems front and rear suspension units for Holden, and the front knuckle assembly for Ford.
The Holden chassis systems are built and shipped in a just-in-time environment, with only a two-hour window to build and ship the axle assemblies in sequence to the customer.
To help with the task, ZF Lemforder two KUKA KR240-2, one KUKA KR240L180-2 and one KUKA KR180-2. The manufacturer decided on the KUKA robots due to their suitability to overall requirements, performance, reliability and cost.
The KUKA KR240L180-2 lifts and manipulates the vehicle’s rear subframe, while the KUKA KR180-2 performs a torque fastening task and the other two KR240-2s load the finished axle assemblies into outgoing shipping racks.
ZF Lemforder says without the KUKA robots, it would not have been able to keep up with the demand, quality consistency and timeframe requirements of the OEMs.
