Specialist machine builder forms automation partnership with ABB

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(2005), "Specialist machine builder forms automation partnership with ABB", Industrial Robot, Vol. 32 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2005.04932eab.001

Specialist machine builder forms automation partnership with ABB

Specialist machine builder forms automation partnership with ABB

Keywords: Automation, Robotics, Partnership

ABB, the global power and automation technologies group, has announced a strategic partnership with Sewtec Automation Ltd, of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, as part of its Global Partner Programme for robot-based automation (Plate 1).

Priding itself on being a “complete solution provider”, Sewtec Automation is a specialist machine builder and project engineering company, with a wealth of experience designing and manufacturing special purpose automated solutions, working predominantly in the food process, packaging, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries.

Plate 1 Automation partners: Bernard Meehan (left) managing Director of Sewtec Automation, with Alan Spreckley, segment manager ABB

ABB continues to develop its Global Partner Programme throughout the UK, a scheme whereby key partners are provided with the necessary tools and information needed to succeed within an expanding market for robot-based automation. The Global Partner Programme reflects the worldwide trend for modularity within the automated manufacturing industries, which is itself due to4hs wide availability of high-quality, inexpensive robots and automation technology for system integrators and OEMs, from industry leaders such as ABB.

Sewtec's managing director, Bernard Meehan, comments: “Sewtec Automation has gained an unrivalled reputation for developing innovative, dependable solutions chiefly for the consumer goods industry and the ABB Global Partner Programme allows us to complement our own expertise with the most advanced robot-based products in the world”.

Mr Meehan adds: “Having ABB robot technologies within our portfolio is a key factor for our future success and we have already completed our first installation as channel partners – a consumer goods application incorporating Sewtec specialist machinery and two ABB FlexPicker robots with PickMaster software”.

Summing up, Alan Spreckley, ABB segment manager – consumer industries and packaging, comments: “The Global Partner Programme brings together our advanced robot-based products with flexible automation solutions from a select nucleus of OEM partners and systems integrators. Sewtec Automation has an excellent reputation as a specialist machine builder and 'fits the bill' perfectly as an ABB partner”.

For more information please contact: David Marshall, ABB Manufacturing Automation, Auriga House, Precedent Drive, Rooksley, Milton Keynes, MK13 8PQ. Tel: +44 (0) 1908 350300; Fax: +44 (0) 1908 350301; E-mail: david.marshall@gb.abb.com