When a leading manufacturer of automotive drivetrain components was presented with an opportunity to grow its business, the company approached PrimeTest Automation to analyze its current production process and develop a system that could meet its new production volume requirements.
The company’s current process had been in place for more than 20 years and relied heavily on a labor-intensive, manual process. A trained operator was producing a finished part every 2 minutes, requiring two operators to meet a production volume of 80,000 units per year. With volumes projected to increase to 400,000 units annually, the company would need at least seven workers to keep pace.