SANMATSU Automated with OnRobot Collaborative Applications
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“We produce over 100,000 items a month, of which about 70% are one-piece productions.” That’s how Mr. Tetsuro Tanabe, President/CEO of SANMATSU Co., Ltd., introduces his company.
As a high-mix low-volume manufacturer, SANMATSU, quick to perceive the public’s growing need for HMLV production, came up with an original business model of small-lot contract manufacturing. The company is serious about an approach that’s “completely build to order, one item at a time.”
“Completely build to order, one item at a time,” is an effective way to create a “strong SME” without sacrificing cost competitiveness.
But fulfilling customer needs one product at a time, each with a different size, shape, and function, means the production setup has to be swapped more often. Streamlining production and cutting manufacturing costs thus requires big moves.