CommScope Opens New Advanced Technology Centre in Belgium
September 21 2017 - 2:00AM
Business Wire
— CommScope and Yaskawa Invest in
Manufacturing Innovation—
CommScope, a global leader in infrastructure solutions for
communications networks, has opened a new advanced manufacturing
technology centre at its Kessel Lo, Belgium site. The centre will
showcase a newly formed partnership with Yaskawa, the world’s
largest robot supplier, to determine the feasibility of adding
robot technology and greater automation to manufacturing
processes.
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CommScope has opened a new advanced
manufacturing technology centre at its Kessel Lo, Belgium site.
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The new Advanced Manufacturing Technology centre enables
CommScope to develop automated manufacturing competencies and
technology in a laboratory setting through cross-functional
collaboration and partnerships with universities, knowledge
partners and suppliers. The goal is to kick-start the design of new
process equipment and mechanization tools to implement in
manufacturing locations globally.
“As we look to the future, the nature of manufacturing continues
to evolve. Our customers expect personalisation and near immediate
delivery of quality products,” said Chris Story, senior vice
president of Global Supply, CommScope. “The digital factory is
making manufacturing exciting again. We expect to see employees
doing jobs for industries which never existed. CommScope sees the
growing proliferation of flexible automation as a key part of how
we innovate for our customers.”
The centre includes a vision lab to support the robotics,
develop automated quality inspection and augmented reality based
support tools. The mechatronics lab will design tools to facilitate
craft sensitive and high precision operations. This area will also
focus on the development of laser-enabled process equipment.
Yaskawa will showcase the following technologies—viewed as
components in an advanced, automated manufacturing environment—at
the new CommScope centre:
- Motoman HC10 human
collaborative robot (cobot) – designed to empower workers by
helping them with repetitive tasks that are ergonomically
challenging or involve heavy weights so they can focus on
value-added activities
- Industry 4.0 – PLC controlled
robot system using Rockwell Allen Bradley controller with Moto
Logix software
- 3D Deep Learning vision software
combined with new GP7 handling robot (software supplied by Amazon
Picking Challenge winner Delft Robotics)
“Manufacturing contributes more than six trillion euros1 to the
global economy while the demand for a highly-skilled, tech savvy
and innovative workforce continues to grow,” said Eddie Mennen,
managing director of Yaskawa Benelux. “Yaskawa is collaborating
with CommScope to modernize production technologies required to
respond quickly in fast changing markets, such as electronics and
high-tech.”
CommScope views this Advanced Manufacturing Technology Centre as
a key way to develop and test technology and robotics that will
help in its drive to add greater automation to its global
manufacturing network and support its operations workforce in
improving quality, efficiency and speed.
High precision robots facilitate consistency and precision which
cannot be achieved by human labour, especially for technologies
like fibre optic connectivity and circuits. As more customers
expect instant delivery, having a machine speeds up production time
while ensuring quality.
The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Centre is located in an
existing area at the Kessel Lo site, remodeled and repurposed to
create a modern setting where both internal and external partners
can collaborate. The new space will be featured in facility tours
to show customers how CommScope is working to innovate
manufacturing operations, and will be a key part of talent
acquisition.
About CommScope:
CommScope (NASDAQ: COMM) helps companies around the world
design, build and manage their wired and wireless networks. Our
vast portfolio of network infrastructure includes some of the
world’s most robust and innovative wireless and fibre optic
solutions. Our talented and experienced global team is driven to
help customers increase bandwidth; maximise existing capacity;
improve network performance and availability; increase energy
efficiency; and simplify technology migration. You will find our
solutions in the largest buildings, venues and outdoor spaces; in
data centres and buildings of all shapes, sizes and complexity; at
wireless cell sites; in telecom central offices and cable headends;
in FTTx deployments; and in airports, trains, and tunnels. Vital
networks around the world run on CommScope solutions.
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