The new Turnkey and
Automation Centre has
been developed to meet
rising demand
Meeting the
Technical Director
needs of the market
Mills CNC has invested in a new Turnkey & Automation Centre, as
this area of the business has been growing strongly and it believes
will be critical to ensure future success
Mills CNC ( www.is.gd/OIjyom ) has
opened a new state-of-the-art
Turnkey & Automation Centre at its
campus facility in Leamington to help meet
demand from UK and Irish manufacturers for
advanced turnkey and process improvement
solutions - many of which include the
integration of industrial or collaborative robot
(cobot) technologies.
The centre is divided into two separate
areas - the turnkey area, where projects are
designed, developed, tested and initially
passed off and a visitor demonstration area,
where Mills SYNERGi cells and Doosan
cobots can be presented. The turnkey
workshop spans 8.5 metres by 27.5 metres
and the showroom 8.5 metres by 14 metres.
The centre provides Mills with both an
area to demonstrate its latest industrial and
collaborative robot automation systems and
solutions to customers, along with a focal
point for the company’s growing turnkey and
process improvement business which, over
the last few years, has grown exponentially.
The development of the centre, also
provides a dedicated resource and
environment at the campus for more turnkey
and process improvement-type projects to
taken on by Mills.
Technical director Tony Dale explains the
new facility provides company with a
dedicated resource, for these two advanced
technology specialisms which, over the last
ve years or so, have become more important
to Mills and are “central to its future growth
and continued success”.
ADDED BENEFITS
Mills CNC is the exclusive distributor of
Doosan machines to the UK and Ireland
markets, and is one of the fastest-growing
machine tool companies in the UK, selling
well in excess of 350 new Doosan machine
tools to UK and Irish component
manufacturers, year-on-year.
In addition to its successful machine tool
business, Mills is at the forefront of
developing and implementing highly
Tony Dale,
at Mills CNC.
customised and best-in-class turnkey systems
and solutions for customers.
Dale says: “More and more
manufacturers, as a route to improving their
productivity and increasing their ef ciency and
effectiveness, are taking a much more
holistic and comprehensive view of their
manufacturing operations - and, rather than
just acquiring a new machine tool to (say)
increase capacity, are investing in turnkey
solutions - many of which include advanced
automation systems.”
As well as a working area where
customers’ automation and turnkey projects
are designed and developed, the centre also
has a customer demonstration remit where
customers can see Mills’ automation
systems in action and talk directly to Mills
(automation) technical staff. The centre is in
a separate part of the main campus - away
from the company’s machine tool
demonstration area.
As automation and turnkey solutions are
the direction of travel for many component
manufacturers looking to improve their
productivity and ef ciencies, Mills explains it
has taken the “proactive and unique step” in
creating the dedicated resource. The centre in
effect, recognises an aspect of Mills’
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