Case Study: Tuthill Plastics achieves 5-month ROI and better part quality with Rethink Robotics Sawyer

How Injecton Molding Company Reached an ROI in 5 Months

Tuthill Plastics Group, a full-service injection molding company, needed a way to automate very short product runs without sacrificing flexibility or return on investment. The challenge was especially difficult because the company relied on employees to handle tedious, repetitive tasks on the factory floor, and traditional automation was not well suited to its short-run environment. Rethink Robotics provided the Sawyer robot for the application.

Rethink Robotics deployed Sawyer at Tuthill’s Clearwater, Florida plant to pick parts from a conveyor and place them precisely into a CNC machine. The robot ran three shifts per day, five days a week, helped Tuthill reach ROI in five months, and reduced a length defect by 98 percent. It also freed employees for more value-added work and enabled the company to extend the run and consider additional robots for other repetitive jobs.

Tuthill Plastics Group