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LATEST TECHNOLOGIES CREATE STRONG MARKET PRESENCE Wir gehen gemeinsam unseren Weg anno 20 i 1 Burkhart Gtob

Dear Colleagues, Dear business partners and friends of GROB, projects and requests from the automotive industry has changed. For example, the Chinese market has noticeably weakened after the 2011-2012 boom years. On the other hand, the American market – and the Mexican market as a direct reflection – has grown. The European and German core market both stabilized at a low level. claim to have well fulfilled our goals with respect to monthly performance, sales and on-time delivery of customer orders. With a solid order book of thirteen months and additional reserves from various framework...

Central megatrend: New environmental technologies in automaking Improving energy efficiency and reducing CO2 emissions are primarily an issue relating to drivetrain technology. In120 million due to societal and lethis context, gal influences, engines and transmissions, both manual and automatic, are particularly in the limelight. Au100 However, drivetrain engineering is not the only important environmental aspect in automaking. Vehicle weight reduction is also an important topic when it comes to energy efficiency. Consequently, body components are increasingly made of light metal and/or...

GROB Technology GROB’s long Tradition in Machine Tools From rotary table machines and transfer lines, through the first flexible production units in the Eighties to the first G-module series: for more than fifty years, GROB technologies occupy not only the top position in machine tools construction, but have always decisively shaped the market with new innovative products. It was a long road from the first series product, a stationary combustion engine produced immediately after the founding of Ernst Grob Werkzeug und Maschinen Fabrik in 1926, through the first thread milling machine in...

Both the X and Z horizontal movement axes were located on the tool side of the machining center; the vertical Y axis was positioned on the work piece side. Consequently, the working area size could be reduced and optimum swarf drop could be realized. Vertical movement of the fixtures and work pieces offered very favorable prerequisites for automated work piece loading. The machine could be fed from above with a linear gantry or from the front using a work piece changer. All of these were advantages which at time – particularly embodied in this distinct type – were unique to the market....

GROB Production Mindelheim speeds up its Production Campaign pallets, thus allowing warehouse employees to see the contents of a pallet using photos without having to move the pallet themselves. Milestone II: Competency center for automation and assembly engineering At the start of this year an additional extensive building project was started at the Mindelheim facility. Now Hall 11 is under construction next to Hall 10. Parts of Pre-assembly and GROB Automation and Assembly Engineering will be housed there. “Once Hall 11 is completed – based on the reduction of material transport distances...

tional highlight of Hall 11 will be the new measuring area which will contribute to shortening transport distances. Milestone III: Construction of a new training center in Hall 12 By the end of September all areas of the training workshop, including product-oriented training will be able to occupy their new spaces in Hall 12. Then immediately, renovations will be started in the freed-up areas in Halls 1 and 6 in order to make room for central materials provision for pre- and final assembly. In the course of these renovations, further investment will be made for a new modern heat treatment...

GROB Works Council Largest Works Council elected in GROB’s history July14 Left to right: Dieter Schüßler, Michael Holderried, Carmen Rösch, Anton Heiler, Werner Jensch, Michael Goldberg With a record 3,355 eligible voters, the new GROB Works Council was elected at the end of March. Of these, 66.38 percent voted to select the 23 members of the new GROB Works Council, the largest in the history of the Company. Anton Heiler remains in office as the first chairman. Election of the Works Council is specified in the Works Constitution Act. According to § 9 of the Works Constitution Act, the Works...

GROB Marketing Strengthening the brand and its contribution to corporate success Left to right: Ingo Walter, Daniela Hüller, Johanna Wyschkon, Marion Häring Rising sales growth using various marketing methods in the systems and universal machine business, increasing challenges through new media and the growing significance of a uniform global corporate identity – there is hardly any area in the GROB GROUP that has changed so much in recent years percentage-wise, volume-wise and content-wise as Marketing at GROB. With the introduction of GROB universal machines and increased significance of...

GROB CHRONICLE Founding of the company in Munich 1926 Munich 1960 GROB WERKE Mindelheim 1971 Staff building 1972 Lounge 1, 1973 Office building B1 under construction 1980 Plant grounds 1982 with Halls 1+2 and Halls 3+5 annex Plant grounds 1990

Plant grounds 1996 with Office Building B4 Plant grounds 2008 with Hall 8 Plant grounds 2013 with Hall 10 and Office Building B5 Planned plant grounds 2016

GROB training Our company’s youngest ambassadors ing 1,250 apprentices with various symbols. Using different coatings they illustrated the GORB logo – a wonderful idea. This is comparable to the photo taken in 2012 when 87 apprentices formed the four-letter GROB logo in front of the administration high-rise in Mindelheim while looking upward to their bosses. „Antique water clock“ project team Our apprentices constantly impress with their highly-developed creativity and commitment, thus becoming excellent ambassadors for our Company. With their recent clock project and excellent results in...

GROB Vocational Training New training center for upcoming talent to the increasing demand in the area of universal machine milling activities, in September 2014 two cutting machine operators will start their 3½ year milling training. The dual courses of study were expanded by the diploma course in logistical industrial engineering, also a growing area of demand at GROB. To strengthen the process chain in the area of logistics, the start of training for specialist in warehouse logistics is planned for fall 2015. Hiring for this will start for the first time with recruiting procedures in the...