b'A Standardized Approach convinced that Methods Machineoperations, Spencer recommends Tools could automate the toolmak- starting with a part for which the ing process or that automation wascycle time and problem areas are target to customers who are new tothe answer, said Steve Dillon, vicewell known, scrap is less than 10% automation, he said. president of CDP Diamond Prod- and the job is repeating.For one high-mix, low-volume ap- ucts. Once chips started flying,If they are holding a tight toler-plication, Methods Machine Toolshowever, the staff was sold. ance on a couple of dimensions and reported that it worked with dia- The work cell has done nothingscrapping half of the workpieces, mond tool manufacturer CDP Dia- but boost my throughput, he said. maybe thats not the best piece to mond Products Inc. in Livonia, Mich- Dillon estimated that the automa- start with, he said, because they igan, to design, create, test andtion cell, which runs unattended onare not always going to be able to integrate a custom turnkey automa- nights and weekends, increased pro- diagnose what that issue is, whether tion cell composed of a Fanuc CRXductivity by 75% on the Robocuts. its the robot or the machine.cobot, two Fanuc C600iA RobocutsIm getting more work becauseFormoreinformationabout and an infeed/outfeed system. Im able to produce more, he said. MethodsMachineTools,call Initially,someemployeesatFor shops looking to add au- 877-668-4262orvisitwww. CDP Diamond Products were nottomatedcellularmachiningtomethodsmachine.com.CTEabout the authorctemag.comAlan Richter isFor more information about work cells from Meth-editor-at-large of CTE.ods Machine Tools, view a video presentation at Contact him at alanr@ www.ctemag.com by scanning the QR code with ctemedia.com. your smartphone or entering this URL on your web browser: cteplus.delivr.com/[email protected]/cteguide.com37Workcells.indd 37 8/17/21 3:22 PM'