Automation Solutions Optimized for High-Mix Manufacturing
IMTS22: Fastems debuts its Flexible Pallet Tower (FPT), an automation solution for APC and no-APC four and five-axis machining centers.
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Fastems LLC highlights its CNC automation solutions for milling and turning machines. The company premiers its Flexible Pallet Tower (FPT), a compact automation solution for APC and no-APC four and five-axis machining centers with 300-630 mm pallets. FPT accommodates up to 24 pallets in 113 ft2 and its configurable storage can accommodate different pallet heights, helping to increase machine tool utilization and lights-out production capacity. Fastems says FPT, like all its automation systems, can be integrated with over 90 different machine tool brands.
Fastems offers variety of robotic solutions not only for machine tending but to handle other value-adding processes in manufacturing, such as measuring and tool management. These solutions are often used together with Fastems flexible manufacturing systems to achieve consistently high quality and lower unit cost.
Fastems USA President Nathan Turner will present CNC Machining Automation - Best Practices for Flexibility, Resilience, and Profitability at IMTS 2022. Turner will present ways to produce small, high-mix batches economically by combining the efficiencies of physical movement, process integration, production planning and employee engagement.
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