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Der Bund — Report from the factory

Der Bund — Report from the factory

Andres Marti of the Swiss Con­fed­er­a­tion reports on Stop­pani Con­tract Man­u­fac­tur­ing AG. Because it shows how Bernese indus­try is secur­ing the future. A report from the clean room and production.

NZZ — Swiss Fac­tory new SME association

NZZ — Swiss Fac­tory new SME association

There are around 3000 con­tract man­u­fac­tur­ers in Switzer­land, who often pro­duce parts for larger indus­trial com­pa­nies under high price pres­sure. The Covid 19 cri­sis has fur­ther wors­ened their dif­fi­cult sit­u­a­tion. At the same time, Swiss Fac­tory is a new provider. He relies heav­ily on robotization.

Dual Fac­tory — two fac­to­ries under one roof

Dual Fac­tory — two fac­to­ries under one roof

“The Swiss con­tract man­u­fac­turer SwissFactory.Group has intro­duced new struc­tures and, in par­tic­u­lar, greatly mod­ern­ized the sheet metal pro­cess­ing divi­sion of its sub­sidiary Stop­pani Metal Sys­tems. Now the imple­men­ta­tion of a “Dual Fac­tory” is desired, where peo­ple work dur­ing the day and the machines work at night. This dig­i­tal fac­tory is to pro­duce fully auto­mat­i­cally and autonomously — in order to guar­an­tee Stop­pani inter­na­tional com­pet­i­tive­ness. Bystronic was the only sup­plier able to meet the requirements.” 

Int’l Sheet Metal Revue: The Dual Fac­tory Model

Int’l Sheet Metal Revue: The Dual Fac­tory Model

The vision of the SwissFactory.Group clearly includes the use of the advan­tages of Indus­try 4.0. In the Dual Fac­tory, machines relieve peo­ple through the day and work autonomously at night. For this pur­pose Stop­pani Metal Sys­tems has installed the Xpert 150 Pro from Bystronic, the first fully auto­matic bend­ing cell in Switzerland.