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Automated processes Energy efficiency in full ‘Force’ at Sandvik Coromant

Source: CG Tech 4 min Reading Time

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The Gimo, Sweden production facility of Sandvik Coromant is tapping into the extensive benefits of Vericut Force from CG Tech. The company is using this advanced physics-based software, which analyses and optimises cutting conditions during component machining, to deliver significant savings in both cycle time and energy consumption.

Vericut ensures stable processes, which are essential for unmanned operations.(Source: CG Tech)
Vericut ensures stable processes, which are essential for unmanned operations.
(Source: CG Tech)

Sandvik Coromant’s Gimo production plant manufactures tool bodies (holders) for indexable-insert cutters used in milling, drilling and turning operations. The facility produces a catalogue of around 15,000 standard products, as well as customised tools. However, Gimo is no ordinary plant. In 2019, the World Economic Forum recognised the factory as just one of 16 digital ‘lighthouses’ worldwide for the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0). And it is clear to see why.

The Gimo site is up and running 8,760 hours per year and features extensive automation. In fact, the whole night shift is unmanned, operated by hundreds of industrial robots and automated guided vehicles (AGVs). Furthermore, a digital ‘thread’ runs throughout the factory that automates everything from customer order to despatch, with data feedback from production to the company’s systems supporting process analysis and continuous improvement.

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