The problem
We were the main supplier of a critical part to a customer with plants abroad. Its suppliers in Europe pressed the same part on automatic transfer presses. In India, we pressed it on a manual tandem press line.
To stay competitive worldwide, the customer asked us to move to transfer stamping. But the part’s price could not go up.
What ENCO did
We studied the options. A new transfer press would have raised the cost, and the customer would not accept that. So we built our own.
Our in-house mechatronics team learned from many sources - even videos of the process online. They rebuilt a long-bed, heavy tandem press as a transfer press. 6-axis robots move the parts from station to station. That gave us a transfer press without buying a new machine.
We also turned the customer’s manual tandem tools into transfer tools, with a flexible tooling system.
The result
The part is now made on a transfer stamping process. Its quality is better and more consistent. The customer still pays the price set for manual production in India.
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