John Deere Forestry drops downtime from 100 to 15 hours

Introducing off-line programming has enabled the Joensuu plant of John Deere Forestry to virtually eliminate production downtime caused by re-programming of robotic production systems. The downtime for re-programming associated with making the frame of a new forest machine model has been cut from 100 hours to 15 hours.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Picture. Mika Lavikainen is a welding process and robot expert both in virtual and real environments.  

“It’s less than a fifth of the downtime we used to have,” says Raimo Sorjonen, head of development. Off-line programming has thus given an average of 85 extra hours of production time. Since new products are continuously being developed, reprogramming robot cells is a factor of increasing importance.

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