GROB International 01/15
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Consolidating Global Historic Growth

Dear Colleagues, Dear business partners and friends of GROB, meet the requirements for innovations in GROB technologies. Therefore, starting with our parent plant in Mindelheim, new technologies and machinery are being introduced in the entire GROB Group. Right to left: Burkhart Grob, Margret Grob, Christian Grob The current order backlog has created a very favorable situation for our headquarters in Mindelheim as well as for the GROB Group as a whole. Despite less than optimistic market conditions in recent months and fluctuating growth, we were able to continue to add new orders. The...

GROB-turbine housing production Boosting productivity with twin-spindle G-modules GROB-Innovative technology Milling and turning technology now also available for the G750T axis with the very favorable chip flow from the work piece from the smaller G550T. The tool management options of the G750T correspond to those of the G750 milling center. On the G750T tools with a length of 590 mm can be used without taking the work piece interference contour into account, and tools with a length of 650 mm can be used when taking the work piece interference contour into account. Customers therefore have...

GROB-Production – From the Production Process to the Product – GROB shows pure Dynamism Universal machine component assembly in Hall 9 For GROB, dynamism means more than fast machines. Even in the production chain, the substantial growth of the Company demonstrates its capability always to replicate the correct processes and to adapt to changed circumstances. Dynamism in the product and process! Continuous optimization of processes with respect to throughput times and efficiency are indispensable in international competition, and are the order of the day in production planning. The demands...

GROB-Customer Training Through changing times and framework conditions July15 Customer training team Customer training as a central link of the global GROB services has become increasingly important in light of increasing product complexity and tougher competition. An experienced team of ten qualified training instructors faces this challenge at GROB. It is not without reason that the word „customer“ is contained in the „Customer Training“ service description, as customers are not only the main GROB focus when it comes to sales, but especially in the field of after-sales service. The GROB...

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Basic instruction Improved team-building hexagonal arrangement of workstations. Communication among apprentices is encouraged. Free space around the working area significantly expanded. Milling In recent years several conventional milling machines have been overhauled and renewed. Now 7 additional milling machines are available for basic instruction in the metal cutting area. Welding The new extraction and grinding system including spark traps not only increases the safety and health situation in this area, it also provides the opportunity– in conjunction with our „welding trees“ – to...

GROB-Sales Global sales structure systematically implemented Annual meeting of plant and branch office managers in Mindelheim By systematically implementing a global sales structure in a matrix organization, GROB has further expanded and promoted its sales program after enormous growth. Central functions and responsibilities such as project development have been transferred to the individual markets as much as possible in order to best support the customers. Due to the strong sales growth in recent years, the sales organization has had to be adapted to the new situation in order to meet...

GROB-Brazil Extensive Capital Investment in Production and Assembly With the most extensive replacement of all old machinery in production, the revamping of production control and wide-ranging employee training program, GROB do Brasil was able to essentially improve both productivity and product quality while strengthening cooperation within the company network. The road to significant improvement in productivity was long. The underlying conditions for production at GROB do Brasil were no longer up to the demands of a modern manufacturing plant: many obsolete, conventional machines, some...

GROB-China Training at GROB Dalian – a small Success Story Following the worldwide GROB tradition, since the first day of the establishment of the plant in Dalian, young people have been trained following the Mindelheim model. The first group of twenty-five trainees have completed their apprenticeships as industrial mechanics or electronics technicians and have now been hired as employees. This is the first small success story at the GROB plant Dalian in its quest for qualified employees. 1956 in São Paulo, Brazil, 1968 in Mindelheim in Bavaria, 1983 in Bluffton, USA and 2012 in Dalian,...

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 Phone: +49 8261 9960 Fax: +49 8261 996268 E-Mail: info@de.grobgroup.com B....