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Factory Safety Case Study # Global Chemical Manufacturer – Automating a Safety-Critical Film Manufacturing Task From Factory Problem Discovery to Robotic Proof of Concept and Production Implementation Industrial Robotics / Advanced Manufacturing Global Chemical & Materials Manufacturing ## Situation - 35+ safety-related factory use cases identified across the manufacturing organization - A polyester-film line where operators grabbed, cut, and transferred moving film by hand - A threading step difficult enough to fail even for experienced operators - Production line never designed for robotic handling or robotic access - Initial automation concept scoped at approximately $2.6M with gripper, arm, mobile base, and receiver The riskiest work sat inside an existing production flow, and the original program was too broad to prove quickly or affordably. ## Strategic Intervention Defined, scoped, and validated a focused robotics proof of concept on the single highest-risk manual task in the line. Core idea: Prove the hardest manipulation problem first at reduced scope, then expand toward production once the mechanism works. - Ran factory observation, stakeholder interviews, and process mapping to locate the true bottleneck - Selected one operator's highest-risk tasks: grab moving film, cut it, hand off the leading edge - Removed the mobile base and receiver from Phase 1 to protect the core technical objective - Cut the proposed proof-of-concept budget from roughly $2.6M to $1.5M — a ~42% reduction - Partnered with a research institute to build the arm-and-gripper mechanism and validate it against line conditions - Structured a three-phase path: lab proof of concept, field integration, then productization Scope discipline converted an open-ended automation ambition into a fundable, provable engineering program. ## Business Impact - Proof of concept succeeded: grab, cut, and handoff automated as one robotic workflow - 42% reduction in proof-of-concept budget, achieved at $1.5M - 100% complete-success rate on flat film at 30 m/min and 40N tension - Reported 5x material-processing rate in operation - Reported 10x safety improvement, reducing human exposure to hazardous work ## Organizational Impact - Established a repeatable method for attacking hard-to-automate manufacturing processes - Surfaced lateral-force and safety-system limits as a defined requirement for the next phase - Created a benchmark the plant team now uses with system integrators - Opened a path from an internal manufacturing problem to a deployable automation product Free Assessment ## Pilot-to-Production Assessment™ Evaluating whether your pilots can become repeatable production deployments. 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