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Bremen Adds Automatic Grinding Equipment Bremen Castings Inc., Bremen,
Ind., plans to add four additional robotic grinding arms to the two Fanuc R200A (6-axle) arms it installed in 2011. JB Brown, president, credits them with signifi cantly increasing consistency and standard hours of operations. After the project is completed,
the facility’s grinding operation will include six robots with four diff erent grinders in each of its cells. T e operator loads castings onto a belt, which feeds into the robotic cell. T e robots grind the parts and place them into a container. T e primary focus of these
automated machines is to grind heavier parts, which helps reduce operator fatigue. BCI recently celebrated a
signifi cant milestone in days without
lost time. Lost time injury is defi ned as an occurrence that resulted in a fatality, permanent disability or lost time from work of one day or shift, or possibly more. T e company’s last lost time incident occurred more than a year ago and required an employee to miss one full shift of work. Since then the metalcasting facility and machine shop have been incident free. In the future, BCI would like to establish a zero incident culture, 1,000,000 man hours without lost work time and two years without lost work time. Bremen Castings Inc. is a
family-owned metalcasting facility and machine shop providing gray and ductile iron machined castings worldwide. T e company is focused on continuous improvement and uses 92% recycled ferrous material.
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12 | METAL CASTING DESIGN & PURCHASING | Nov/Dec 2012
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