come more competitive, and to handle the growth handling that work coming to the US, there’s been an insurgence of automa- tion,” he added. “We do a lot of education for customers on how automation can help—so many shop owners don’t think they’re a candidate for automation.” The barfeeding equipment sold by
Edge Technologies is considered level one automation, noted Edge’s Meehan. “It’s very much an off-the-shelf product that can be easily integrated with lathes and machine tools. It automates the process of feeding raw material into ma- chines, taking labor out of the product. The machine doesn’t run out of raw ma- terial and precious skilled labor is freed up for higher value-added tasks. “A customer’s choice in a magazine barfeeder is dictated by the production lot sizes they want to run, the diameter and shape of bar stock, part cycle time, and the overall length of the part,” Mee- han said. “That’s important because if it’s a fast cycle time, say maybe 30 seconds and the part has an overall
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length of four inches, that customer’s going to go through a lot of material very fast. You need automation there to keep it stocked up all the time, especially if you want to achieve some limited or full-blown, unmanned production.” ME
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