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Click here for detailsThe Hamakita factory of Kunimoto Kogyo, an auto parts manufacturer located in Hamamatsu City. In the automated line, 15 robots are lined up in a row and convey pipes one after another. Every 15 seconds, one cooling pipe for a motor to be installed in a hybrid vehicle (HV) is created. There are only a handful of people in the factory. The sight of robots lined up in an orderly fashion no longer looks like a factory for a small or medium-sized enterprise.
Although it has only a few dozen employees, it started dealing directly with Toyota in 2007. What attracted the company was the use of press machines and dies to create a pa...
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