Smarter manufacturing thanks to automation

JT-Teknik already works with two standard automations from DMG MORI Systems – a DMU 80 eVo and a DMU 60 eVo linear.

Complex and top quality components are the trademark of JT-Teknik. Owner Troels Toft, son of founder Jens Toft, and managing director Peter Hjelm have been putting their faith in repeatedly impressing existing customers with quality and reliability for many years. "Customer orientation is an important part of our business philosophy", emphasises Peter Hjelm. This also includes advising the customer at the development stage if necessary. "If we see potential for optimisation during the manufacture of a component, both parties can benefit from it".

In JT Teknik’s daily business, the requirements for precision and surface quality are usually very high.

As with the majority of orders, JT-Teknik mainly manufactures individual components for Zenvo Automotive. The managing director considers short delivery times to be a decisive competitive factor: "In Denmark our wage costs are extremely high, and we compete with providers from cheaper countries, including Germany". He says that this disadvantage can only be compensated for by means of efficient production. "If we want to remain competitive we have to manufacture smarter than the others", says Peter Hjelm, putting it in a nutshell. JT-Teknik took the first step in this direction when it purchased the automated DMU 80 eVo in 2012.

DMU eVo model series with 150|8 – efficient and flexible manufacturing

In order to be competitive in the high-wage country Denmark JT Teknik uses very economical machining strategies in particular for complex parts.

JT-Teknik already works with two standard automation systems from DMG MORI Systems. Both the DMU 80 eVo and the DMU 60 eVo linear that was installed in 2014 have in conjunction with the PH 150|8 palette handling systems, as Peter Hjelm concludes: "The fact that we can run unmanned shifts increases our productivity immensely". Both universal machining centres can be equipped with up to ten palettes, and can therefore manufacture unmanned for long periods at night or over the weekend. "During the day we reduce our non-productive time with the aid of the palettes, because we can equip the two machines during the main production time", continues the managing director. He also states that there is much more manufacturing flexibility when dealing with urgent orders. "This also applies to the universal machines: The eVo models are designed such that they can easily cope with our extremely wide range of components", adds Peter Hjelm.

In order to be competitive in the high-wage country Denmark JT Teknik uses very economical machining strategies in particular for complex parts.

JT-Teknik can look to the future with optimism, since the business has developed extremely positively for years. The move to a bigger manufacturing facility with sufficient room for the additional employees and the machine tool investments took place in 2010. Peter Hjelm would like to make further modernisations here – also with a comparable standard automation system. "Innovative CNC technology and the associated automation will help us to develop our 5-axis expertise and manufacture even more productively".