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Portas Euro-Rapid Doubles Machine Tending Capacity with 2F-140 Adaptive Grippers

Problem

Portas Euro-Rapid manufactures fittings and couplings to join pipes together. Mechanical flaws slowed machine operations, causing a lot of downtime with limited personnel available to fix issues.

Solution

Integrating Robotiq 2F-140 Adaptive Grippers and Universal Robots UR10 to each machine allowed each employee to take care of three machines. Now their machines run full-time and production capacity has doubled.

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Products they use

2F-85 and 2F-140 Grippers

Applications

Machine Tending

“The whole integration went very smoothly. Half our staff is over 40 years old, and everyone found it easy to learn to work with Robotiq and Universal Robots.”

Joaquim Portas President, Portas Euro-Rapid

“Now, with the same machines, we’ve managed to stay up to date and serve our customers much better.”

Joaquim Portas President, Portas Euro-Rapid

“the training was at the user level. It wasn’t complicated: you just go step by step and soon you’ve learned the whole thing pretty quickly.”

Xavi Hernández Machine Operator, Portas-Eurorapid

By the numbers

3

machines

The number of machines that a single employee can operate at the same time

5

days

Amount of days to integrate Robotiq and Universal Robots products in the factory

50

%

The increase in productivity since the robots are in production