A buyer looking at a plant that has been adding technology for years cannot tell the next purchase from a gadget. The machines are already there. The reason the next one belongs is not.
Alloy Precision Technologies' video is that reason, told at the plant. A partner from MAGNET opens it by placing Alloy in northeast Ohio, a company they have worked with for years, moving from automation into Industry 4.0: machine monitoring, a tie to the ERP, and collaborative robots for machine tending. The years are presented as one program, each step financing the next. Then Alloy says what it is. A custom engineered products company. Everything it sells is made in Ohio, on custom equipment and custom processes. Innovation is a core value, and the work with MAGNET is how they keep developing those processes, including on the CNC side, where monitoring is meant to drive equipment performance and take more of the scheduling off people's hands. The close is the part a workforce actually hears. Cobots are for material handling across CNC, forming, and assembly. Set up right, they can run through breaks and, once the operator is gone, into the night, with parts checked in the morning. The people do not go away. Operators and machinists move up. The company says that is how productivity goes up, cost comes down, and they stay competitive.
Another manufacturer hiring Beacon for this kind of video is buying a way to talk about the next technology without making it sound like a replacement program. A partner can vouch for the years. The company has to say, on its own floor, what the machines are for and what happens to the people who run them.
Alloy did not need a robot demo. They needed the next investment to sound like the same program. That is what this video is for.
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[00:00.000] I'm at Alloy Precision Technologies today, a premier company in northeast Ohio that Magnet
[00:11.920] has been working with for many years.
[00:14.960] They have implemented technologies, automation, and now they've moved on to advanced technologies
[00:20.720] in Industry 4.0.
[00:22.120] They've started and are implementing machine monitoring, integration with ERP, and in the
[00:26.920] future they'll be doing collaborative robots for machine tending.
[00:31.720] This is a great example of an integrated program over years with incremental ROI to finance
[00:37.880] their excursion and implementation of high technology.
[00:43.280] Alloy Precision Technologies is a custom engineered products company selling products
[00:49.280] throughout the U.S. and around the world.
[00:51.800] Everything we sell, we manufacture right here in Ohio with a great deal of custom
[00:57.560] equipment, custom processes, custom IP.
[01:01.040] At our company, innovation is one of our key core values.
[01:04.300] We strive for custom and continuing development for equipment processes internally in the
[01:12.760] plants as well as in the office, and we work with partners such as Magnet in developing
[01:18.840] equipment and processes.
[01:21.160] We've developed equipment with them that are accustomed to us in terms of our component
[01:25.560] parts that go into our Bellas assemblies.
[01:29.320] We are working with them currently on 4.0 manufacturing in our CNC operations processes
[01:38.320] that will help drive equipment performance and improve and automate more of our scheduling
[01:45.280] processes.
[01:46.280] We're moving more into cobots and robotics for material handling not only in our CNC
[01:52.920] operations but in our material forming and other assembly operations throughout our entire
[01:59.760] operation of what we do.
[02:02.200] Cobots we believe will have a very significant return on our investment going forward, yet
[02:08.040] they operate during breaks, they operate during lunch hours.
[02:12.280] They've set up properly, they can operate lights out once the operator happens to be
[02:16.920] gone and then we can check parts in the morning.
[02:20.360] The operators are very good, you still need operators and you still need machinists.
[02:25.520] That's one of the issues we have to worry about.
[02:27.600] They always think of automation as in terms of losing their jobs, not at all in fact,
[02:32.480] we need them even more.
[02:34.440] They just become a higher level machinist and a higher level operator for what they're
[02:38.760] doing and we believe that the return on investment will be significant increases in productivity
[02:44.800] and therefore lower cost and a competitive situation for us.
