How AIMS improves safety for tool manufacturers [Video]

By Jan Irzyk, AIMS Product Manager at ANCA CNC Machines

The tool manufacturing industry is embracing automation solutions at an unprecedented pace. This is a worldwide trend driven by several factors – labor shortage, increasing labor costs, the need for maximizing uptime, push for 24/7 machine availability, and customers demanding shorter lead times. Manufacturers need to be more flexible and responsive than ever before. 

ANCA has been providing a wide range of automation solutions for many years. One of the recent offerings in this space is our ANCA Integrated Manufacturing System, or AIMS for short. AIMS is an ecosystem of individual modules – or building blocks – which could be configured to build a tailored automated tool manufacturing system.

Modularity and flexibility mean that it caters to both small and large enterprise-type manufacturers. The system could be designed to be very simple, using a trolley for manual pallet and tool …