In Herrieden, in the German region of Franconia, a whole day was dedicated to flexible and efficient automation. Industry is currently facing many different challenges, ranging… Read more
Fusing together Karakuri/LCA and robotics opens up new, urgently needed opportunities – as the CETPM is showing in its factory for the future. These are challenging… Read more
Constantly shrinking batch sizes and ever shorter product lifecycles mean greater attention is now being paid to the time and money that can be saved using… Read more
Each year, car manufacturer Toyota in Japan trains around 400 of its skilled workers in Karakuri/LCA ... Read more
Karakuri/LCA (LCA = Low Cost Automation) is a type of automation that doesn’t use drives, sensors, e ... Read more
A large-scale application demonstrates the effectiveness of Karakuri/LCA in automotive manufacturing ... Read more
Unlike many other methods of lean production that began taking the world by storm in the 1990s, Kara ... Read more
2017 proved a particularly eventful year for the CETPM, an institute at Ansbach University of Applie ... Read more
How material supply and picking for coolant pump assembly is benefiting from low-cost automation. W ... Read more
“You can never be ‘lean enough’.” An interview with our lean production expert Stefan Armbruster. W ... Read more
How to achieve automation effectively and cheaply with Karakuri Kaizen. In the era of Industry 4.0, ... Read more
