(ANCA: Melbourne, Australia) -- The tool manufacturing industry embraces automation solutions at an unprecedented pace. This is a worldwide trend driven by several factors, such as labor shortage, increasing labor costs, the need for maximizing uptime, the push for 24/7 machine availability, and customers demanding shorter lead times. Manufacturers need to be more flexible and responsive than ever before.

ANCA has been providing a wide range of automation solutions for many years. One of the recent offerings is the ANCA Integrated Manufacturing System (AIMS), an ecosystem of individual modules—or building blocks—that could be configured to build a tailored automated tool manufacturing system. Modularity and flexibility mean that it caters to both small and large enterprise type manufacturers. The system could be designed to be very simple, using a trolley for manual pallet and tool transfer with basic ERP connectivity. It could also be a complex, fully autonomous production solution that requires minimal human intervention.

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