Car maker raises productivity using Yudo's automated solution

Leading South Korean car manufacturer was facing problem to increase the production of a particular car model for which demand escalated from the launch of the car itself, there were many engineering and production challenges in increasing the manufacturing. Among many challenges one major was productivity of the front and rear bumpers which became bottle neck since they were not able to increasing production and match the quality with growing challenges. Major issue was the higher cycle time, manual handling and quality of the part. The obvious choice was to add more injection moulding machine, make new mould to meet the demand but the implementation of this decision was very time consuming and required at least six months to get a new machine and manufacture a new mould.
 
Then Yudo came into picture and after long and in-depth discussion with the manufacturer, Yudo officials concluded the issues as productivity, delay in post moulding operations by operators and inconsistency in quality of the parts which was leading into lot of parts rejection. After Yudo team checked and analysed whole process, it proposed car maker fully automatic operation using special customised automation.
 
Previously the cycle time of plastic bumper moulding was 60 seconds, post moulding operations like auto degating, burr removing process, and weight testing of the product for each component was done manually.

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Yudo choose multi axis robot to perform all the operation with secondary equipment’s. Yudo provided automatic takeout of the bumper from the moulding machine and auto degating, auto de burring with UV flames, auto quality testing by load cell (weighing).
 
With Yudo automation, the car manufacturer was not only able to increase the production by 25% with the same setup, but also enabled it to perform all post-moulding operations by robot (100% quality testing by robot using load cell), which saved more than 9 manpower in a day.
 
The best was yet to come. Car maker saved additional investment for the machineries & mould which was at least 10 times more than the cost of what they spent on Yudo automation.