Okuma Australia to distribute RoboJob in ANZ

Okuma Australia has announced an exclusive distribution agreement throughout Australia and New Zealand with RoboJob.

“After researching the markets we found great similarities between our market in Western Europe and those in Australia and New Zealand,” said RoboJob CEO Helmut de Roovere.

“In Western Europe we have similarly high labour rates and a large number of small to medium-sized job shops. Our own manufacturing experiences led us to pursue all the available days in a year for production and even to extend our operations to a second and third shift.

“When we analysed our employee structures we found that, like most businesses, there are repetitive and creative tasks. We wanted to take people doing repetitive tasks and give them new creative roles in our operation. This boosted our planning, innovation, output and work satisfaction enormously. The changes we initiated using newly developed RoboJob technology delivered us massive gains in efficiency, productivity and business returns.”

“We saw that Okuma had been strongly involved in applying robots to the job shops and their experience and knowledge were important factors for our market considerations,” said RoboJob Business Development Manager Jelle de Roovere.

Okuma Australia’s experience in robotic automated cells has been extensive throughout Australia and New Zealand with technicians trained to support the industry with advanced, flexible and cost-effective RoboJob technology.

For more information, visit www.okumaaustralia.com.au.