ABB- the right solution and the right partner for profitability and long-term business success
ABB offers world-class manufacturing automation and robotics solutions for the automotive, general manufacturing and consumer goods industries. ABB robots, from small to large, are the product of innovative process engineering and world-leading robotics experience and expertise.
As Australia’s only direct robot supplier, ABB has the best robotics combination on offer in the country: reliable products, complete turnkey solutions, a dedicated service division, a dedicated training facility and a professional telephone support service.
Through ABB’s channel partner program, local engineering companies and niche manufacturers can also competitively integrate ABB robotic products.
ABB customers are choosing the right solution and the right partner for profitability and long-term business success.
CASE STUDY
Foster’s enjoys the flexibility and reliability of its ABB robotic palletising system
One of Australia’s largest breweries, Foster’s, has implemented two ABB IRB 4400 robots in the palletiser area of its Yatala plant in Queensland. While traditional palletisers are fast and effective, it can take two hours to reset the equipment when patterns need to change.
Their many working parts create a lot of noise, potential danger to workers and high maintenance costs.
The ABB robots, stipulated by ABB partner Foodmach, are efficient, easy to operate, flexible, predictable, low maintenance and extremely reliable. After 9000 hours of operation, they have stopped only for routine maintenance and instead of the 99.5 percent target, the robots have delivered 100 percent compliance.
The Robomatrix software allows operators to trial different virtual stacking patterns before instructing the robots, and changeovers between products and patterns are fast and easy.
Did you know?
ABB developed the world’s first microcomputer-controlled, all electric industrial robot, the IRB6 in 1974. Today, there are more than 140,000 ABB robots installed worldwide, with around 1,800 of those in Australia.
ABB robots play a strategic role in the growth of automobile parts manufacturer Mett Pty Ltd.
At the same time many Australian manufacturers started to shift their operations offshore, Mett Pty Ltd (Mett) installed an ABB robot to improve the efficiency and profitability of its automotive parts production facility. So impressed was Mett with the capabilities of its first robot cell, with the user-friendly software, and local support and training, it has progressively increased the number of robotic installations to 40, including IRB 2400, IRB 4400, IRB 6400 and IRB 6600 robots. Over the past 15 years, Mett has consistently achieved a return on investment within 12 months for most of the robots, which are used for machine tending, sawing, deburring, ladling, palletising, gluing, assembly work and cleaning.
Today, the Melbourne-based business runs 24 hours a day and successfully sells its products to customers in Europe, Asia, North and South America and to local industry in Australia.
Innovation
Malaysia-based automotive manufacturer, Proton, installed 22 ABB paint robots equipped with ABB’s Cartridge Bell System (CBS) and recorded a 35 percent reduction in paint consumption at its state-of-the-art automotive plant near Kuala Lumpur. Jointly developed by ABB and Toyota, the CBS revolutionised paint technology by moving the paint tank to the robot arm in the form of a refillable cartridge.
The CBS delivers substantial savings in paint and solvent, reduces solvent emissions by almost half, improves productivity and enables smaller, even paint-to-order production runs.
Did you know?
ABB holds more than $2 million worth of robotics spare parts in Australia and supports clients in industries ranging from automotive to food and beverage.