TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY IS CREATING NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND POSSIBILITIES FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR COMPANY

On behalf of my family, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all employees for their support over the past year. Thanks to your help, the GROB Group has once again achieved an excellent result. The value of this result cannot be overstated, particularly considering the far-reaching changes in our core business with the automotive industry. After a little less than two years, it is already evident that the GROB Management was absolutely correct in its decision to set up and develop electromobility as a fourth core business for the company. The GROB Supervisory Board, my family and I...

ANNUAL REVIEW High-level visits, events and new investments – an exciting 2017 January – For the first time in its history, GROB-WERKE took part in the IMTEX machine trade show in Bangalore, India February – GROB buys Italian machinery and plant manufacturer for electric motors, DMG meccanica March – GROB receives a double award from Volkswagen in China April – The CIMT in Beijing, China, proved to be a complete success for GROB and the trade show team June – Active recruitment for GROB apprenticeships with Girls‘ Day June – Visit to GROB Systems in Bluffton by a high-ranking politician, John...

GROB PRODUCTION Final assembly in Hall 13 officially opened Hall 13 – a further milestone in the development of the site at Mindelheim Many reasons for the construction of Hall 13 Despite the commissioning of four other Halls, 9-12, within four years (20112014), there was insufficient usable space available in the existing halls in light of the increase in turnover at the Mindelheim site. In addition, the intention was to bring the automation systems, which had been outsourced to the Finsterwalder company, back on-site at GROB. The production processes were improved considerably by merging the...

larger customer projects can now be set up with several sub-projects, which would not have been possible in the existing halls. For instance, Hall 13 is set to become the center for installation and commissioning. It will also provide production with a continuous line of infrastructure for customer projects in order to pool many complex work steps which used to be spread over a number of halls in the past. They include, among other things, the setting-up and installation of production units. The existing halls will continue to be used as a buffer and will be geared up for further expansion in...

GROB broadened its product range significantly at the beginning of this year by moving into the area of electromobility. After several years in installation and development, this new line of business is now well established. It makes GROB one of the few mechanical engineering manufacturers in the world that is fully geared to the issue of „electromobility", and it has once again demonstrated its value as a competent service provider and partner for the automotive industry. An immediate result: „We were particularly successful in securing a major order from Volkswagen for the new electric drive...

EMO 2017 GROB impresses with its innovative strength and a new business segment

APPRENTICESHIPS AT GROB Over one hundred apprentices for the first time The number of apprenticeships has quadrupled within seven years, and new opportunities have been created in technical and industrial training. GROB has training the workforce of tomorrow in its sights more than ever in order to meet the increasing demand for skilled workers. Training young people is vital at GROB to safeguard the further development of the company and to meet the demand for young, skilled workers in a wide range of disciplines. The GROB training center, which is equipped with state-of-the-art New apprenticeship...

He will be continuing his ongoing career development in key operational areas, such as material hardening. Technological progress has also kept up a high pace in sheet metal work in recent years. Laser punching, CNC bending machines, bending robot systems and robot welding have also made their way into GROB‘s construction portfolio. To keep up with this pace of innovation in terms of personnel, GROB launched an apprenticeship in construction mechanics, starting in the 2017 apprenticeship year. This 3½-year apprenticeship, through vocational colleges in Memmingen and Lauingen, will cover the special...

In order to handle the enormous increase in travel and to ensure that staff stay on the move on business trips and assembly operations, GROB Travel Management was launched following intensive preparatory work at the end of this year. It will not only assist in the organizing of employees' travel arrangements, it also makes a decisive contribution towards improving procedures and reducing travel and fleet costs in the long term. Nearly 70 percent of GROB-WERKE's sales are achieved outside Germany, with 60 percent overseas. It is no wonder, then, that about one in every three employees goes on...

Who‘s who in the GROB Travel Management department? The GROB Travel Management department is to be staffed by colleagues with previous experience of handling GROB travel arrangements; they will now be a centralized point of contact for personnel. In addition, we have recruited two new colleagues with many years of professional experience in business travel. Erika Summer has been appointed as a travel manager; she will deal with strategic questions, find ways of improving processes and attend to internal and external communication with service providers. From next year, Alexandra Rücker will be...

GROB IN-HOUSE TRADE SHOW GROB celebrates ten years of universal machines with in-house trade show

GROB-UK GROB UK is strengthening its market position in the field of aircraft engineering GROB UK has also managed to expand its market position in the UK aerospace industry over the past year. More than 50 percent of all universal machines sold are currently being sold in this key industry which is so vital to GROB. A first G750 machine was also delivered this year in the field of mold making. Another interesting order was received from a university in North- ern Ireland for a G550. Based on „Industry 4.0“, it will be used to set up a „factory of the future“, which GROB UK may also use as a...