Industrial space parts, repairs, and maintenance solutions provider Radwell International has announced the installation of a robotics testing centre of excellence at its facility in Blackburn, UK to ensure quality control for spare parts.
The company, reportedly one of Europe’s biggest distributors of new and reconditioned industrial automation and electronic control equipment, provides more than 350 manufacturers with hard-to-source parts.
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The new facility in Blackburn features 13 working robots from six brands, including Kuka, ABB, Yaskawa, Motoman, Kawasaki and Comau, all linked to fully-functional control panels, allowing Radwell to repair and test robotic and control components to support customers worldwide.
Steve Turner, European head of production and engineering at Radwell, said: “The new specialist test facility in Blackburn is a further step in our mission to be the indispensable partner to manufacturers, offering an extensive inventory of fully-tested industrial parts and services to minimise downtime.
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“Working in a huge variety of sectors, the size and scale of our inventory now puts us in an unrivalled position for the provision of spare parts and repairs solutions in stressful breakdown situations, and the new Robotics Testing Centre of Excellence in Blackburn helps us meet the gold standard in quality control for robotics spare parts, as part of our commitment to providing our customers the best possible support in their hour of need, or for strategic obsolescence planning and preventative maintenance.”
The robots at the Blackburn facility add to further test units at sites across Europe and the USA, covering brands from Denso, Nachi, Panasonic and Hanwha, amongst others.
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