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GROB-WERKE despite unstable markets and uncertainty surrounding the future development of the a u to m oti v e industry

DEAR COLLEAGUES, Dear Business Partners and Friends of GROB, A year of great significance for our family, as well as for our company is drawing to a close. With my father‘s passing, we have not only experienced a great loss within our family, he will also be dearly missed at work. Yet, we have managed to ensure that GROB-WERKE will also continue to flourish in the future, plotting the same course that he established. Not only will our company continue to be owned by the family, our entire management has also pledged their continued support to us. This is a promise that has not only...

GROB - Innovative technology Thermal spraying to increase the efficiency of combustion engines Practical experiences detemine the enhancement process Despite the excellent successes of GTS, the GROB engineers are interested in ongoing enhancement of the process in order to improve it further for large-scale production. The focus is currently on shortening the stoppage times for maintenance and servicing work in order to boost the availability of the system. The original burner for the spraying process has been upgraded so that its settings can also be configured by people who are not...

GROB PRODUCTION New measures support lean production Hall 6 - Preassembly of the Z-axis casing A whole raft of improvement and restructuring measures are enabling throughput times to be reduced further in GROB production, which means that customer service is delivered more quickly and with greater efficiency. Consequently, the focus of attention at GROB is not only on new construction, but also on efforts to improve production processes. Lean production at its best. Production space has grown at breathtaking speed in recent years, particularly at the plant in Mindelheim. New halls have been...

GROB Management System Energy management for greater energy efficiency GROB Production System Over ten years of service for the company Enhancement of the equipment process A further project in the G-PS department was the enhancement of equipment processes. The objective was to create clear responsibilities along the process chain, to guarantee a consistent assessment of the duty to display the CE marking and the requisite preparation of relevant documentation, as well as to ensure transparent integration of equipment requirements. As a result, there was an identifiable reduction in the...

GROB ADMINISTRATION BUILDING B6 New GROB company headquarters completed in record time GROB administration building B6 New offices with a total floor space of over 247,570 ft2 have been created in the new 10-story company headquarters at the Mindelheim site in a little over 18 months. This was made possible by an extremely short planning phase and a shell phase of only ten months in which a further floor was completed approximately every three weeks. Standing almost 165 feet high, the new GROB administration building is among the tallest buildings in Mindelheim. Headed by architect Josef...

GROB'S LONG-SERVING EMPLOYEES The company's long-term employees deserve their honors 40th anniversary and retired employees with links to the company of between 30 and 40 years

GROB Vocational Training Apprenticeships at GROB continue to be highly rated into another industrial company. All the apprentices used to visit a company together up to a few years ago. However, in view of the ever rising number of GROB apprentices, it became increasingly difficult to find suitable companies that were in a position to welcome and look after such a large group of young people. ”Nevertheless, we looked at options for arranging company visits for the apprentices again because it is so beneficial to have a look around another industrial company. This is the main reason why we...

GROB-INDIA GROB celebrates 10 years of sales activities in India GROB Poland Latest GROB branch gets off to a successful start Establishment of GROB Poland GROB India, Chennai, October 2016 What started off back in 2006 with negotiations for the delivery of the first flexible production plant to Chennai, India has developed into a successful GROB sales subsidiary in Hyderabad. Nowadays, GROB Machine Tools India not only represents the interests of the GROB Group in India, it also plays a key role in GROB‘s activities in Asia. Following the delivery of 70 machine modules to India‘s first...

GROB UNIVERSAL MACHINES GROB bolsters its market position in the universal machines segment GROB 5-axis universal machining center at the SolidCAM trade fair stand at AMB 2016 Successful appearances at key trade fairs, such as the IMTS in Chicago and the AMB in Stuttgart, technology days at GROB-WERKE sites around the world, further expansion of international sales activities and new sales tools were the hallmarks of an extremely successful year of trading in universal machines in 2016 and interesting new customer projects. The IMTS in Chicago and the AMB in Stuttgart are held every two...

GROB SYSTEM BUSINESS GROB is confronting new challenges in the systems business The expected paradigm shift in drive concepts in the automotive industry is having a greater bearing than ever on the purchasing behavior of OEMs in the systems business and, consequently, also increasingly concerns projects among Tier I and Tier II suppliers. With demands for ever greater flexibility in the use of their machines and systems, our customers also expect more of their GROB technology. It has been evident for months now that virtually all of the OEMs in the automotive sector are being increasingly...

GROB BRAZIL A J Another chapter written in the success story of B. GROB do Brasil in its anniversary year 60 years after its formation, the oldest factory in the GROB Group is perfectly integrated into the factory network, and its order books are full until mid-2018. Despite the current economic crisis in Brazil, B. GROB do Brasil has received large volumes of export orders from the US and Mexico. This will keep our Brazilian colleagues highly motivated. They not only celebrated the 60th birthday of their company; to them it was also a family celebration. Sao Paulo, September 2016:...