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DEAR COLLEAGUES, Dear colleagues, dear business partners and friends of GROB, ing of our own workforce. With a current order backlog of over 1.3 billion euros, we can offer GROB Group employees throughout the world secure jobs. This is a most satisfactory situation in what are turbulent times. But the key point is that with our four production sites and associated sales and service branches, we are superbly positioned globally to offer our customers the highest quality in all areas. We have reached a level of quality for which in the first half of the year alone we have already received...

GROB Technology Improving our process technology GROB Technology Improving our process technology Production system for machining cylinder blocks Universal machine series We are reducing downtimes and improving machine parameters, while at the same time saving energy and achieving better energy efficiency in our production systems. GROB machines are continuing to become more dynamic, more efficient with reduced manufacturing costs, not to mention many innovations in the detail. reduction of downtimes, such as for tool and workpiece changes, and also the improvement of machine parameters,...

GROB Production New high-tech logistics center in Mindelheim a separate entrance. In addition, there will be storage areas for external service providers, such as cleaners and vending machine suppliers. New layout in the goods-in and goods-out area Goods can be unloaded at the truck sides with a forklift or at the rear of the truck via the loading ramp. Deliveries by parcel companies and same-day couriers can be handled at a separate gate. In the goods-in zone the consignment will be inspected visually and then reconciled with the delivery note. With direct posting in the goods-in...

GROB Commercial Department Keeping a firm grip on the money How has the company coped financially with the doubling of output seen in recent years? How does the company meet the related challenges of liquidity management? Or how is the extremely complex issue of “project controlling” resolved? These are three of the main challenges that GROB‘s commercial team face every day. its homework and in recent years worked intensively on developing its financial management systems. Of crucial importance here is liquidity management, and that entails not just collection of overdue payments, but also,...

GROB Training Launch of PRODA A new organizational unit for Product-Oriented Training or PRODA was launched on 1 April 2013. Its aim is to co-ordinate and manage centrally all product-oriented education and training. Its focus is mainly on new employees in the assembly and service area, employees whose remit changes or who come from other production and service sites, trainees from a variety of backgrounds and students from the dual diploma programs. groups have to be permanently available. These currently include an autonomous robot cell, a G350 with pallet changer, a G300, as well as...

GROB-production systems business A Vote of Confidence for GROB GROB Occupational Health Daniela Schorer, associate physician at GROB The substantial growth at the Mindelheim plant has also affected the workload of the plant medical services. In addition to growth in employment physicals, a nearly 20 percent expansion of the number of employees has likewise unavoidably resulted in an increase in the need for treatment. Now Dr. Daniela Schorer is providing support as a second physician at the Mindelheim facility. Demands on the occupational health services had grown enormously in previous...

GROB Brazil Ready for the future GROB USA Bluffton – mirror of the worldwide coordinated production system In order to meet the challenges posed by steadily increasing production, personnel and material costs together with above-average growth in sales at B. GROB do Brasil, almost the entire value chain in the company was reviewed for optimization opportunities. The result has been an almost entirely new orientation of B. GROB do Brasil. Although Brazil’s currency, long the problem child of the Brazilian economy, turned itself around years ago, it continues to create problems for the...

GROB USA Bluffton – mirror of the worldwide coordinated production system Mixed outlook in the American market The constant flux in the American market and its underlying dynamics can easily be seen in the changing content of our current framework agreements. The number of machines and systems are continually changed and sometimes rescheduled. This is the case with General Motors and Chrysler alike. Both automakers constantly adapt their needs and requirements to the current market situation. At Chrysler, for example, they are considering how to concretely proceed with FIAT. New strategy...

GROB universal machines New workpieces in new sectors Machine concept by GROB and Liechti for machining flow surfaces When it comes to titanium, fiberbased material such as CFRP or GFRP, or classical materials such as stainless steel or aluminum, GROB universal machines can process workpieces in almost all imaginable materials. Recently GROB universal machines have once again reasserted their comprehensive suitability for most applications. Machining flow surfaces (blisk rotors and impellers) presents one of the most formidable challenges in cutting technology. The problem is how to...

Here for you around the world GROB RUSSLAND Moscow, Russia GROB MACHINE TOOLS Birmingham, Great Britain GROB-WERKE Mindelheim, Germany GROB HUNGARIA Györ, Hungary GROB MACHINE TOOLS Beijing, China GROB SYSTEMS Bluffton, Ohio, USA GROB MACHINE TOOLS Dalian, China GROB KOREA Seoul, South Korea GROB MACHINE TOOLS Shanghai, China GROB MEXICO Querétaro, Mexico GROB MACHINE TOOLS Hyderabad, India B. GROB DO BRASIL São Paulo, Brazil Mindelheim plant Bluffton plant Dalian plant GROB-WERKE GmbH & Co. KG Mindelheim, GERMANY Tel.: +49 8261 9960 Fax: +49 8261 996268 E-Mail: info@de.grobgroup.com B....