Case Study: Hyundae Induction Hardening Heat Treatment achieves higher production efficiency with Universal Robots UR10 cobots

Hihht Addresses Rising Labor Costs With Cobots To Increase Product Quality And Improve Staff Workloa

Hyundae Induction Hardening Heat Treatment (HIHHT) faced rising labor costs, employee fatigue, and errors from repetitive work in its high-mix, low-volume automotive heat treatment operation. To improve product quality and reduce workload, the company turned to Universal Robots and its UR10 cobots.

Universal Robots deployed two UR10 collaborative robots to automate machine tending in the induction hardening process, handling part loading and unloading. The solution reduced the failure rate from 0.03% to 0.01%, increased production efficiency by 31%, enabled the company to hire two more employees, and delivered an expected ROI of about 1.5 years.

Hyundae Induction Hardening Heat Treatment

Y.S. Park

Production Manager