With a track record of streamlining production for companies across the country, Bosch Australia Manufacturing Solutions (BAMS) brings 135 years of Bosch quality and expertise to Australian manufacturers.
Based in Clayton, Victoria, BAMS has over 100 engineers and support staff servicing local and international customers. BAMS has become one of the country’s leading factory automation companies, working with a diverse array of blue-chip, mid-tier and start-up manufacturers to automate their manufacturing.
In 2013, Bosch decided to provide their expertise in manufacturing, automation, and robotics to customers outside of the Bosch Group, and in 2021, BAMS opened a new Manufacturing Automation Centre, a purpose-built facility to boost strategic collaboration and innovation with world-class equipment and engineering expertise. The Centre further demonstrates its commitment to supporting Australian manufacturing, while applying a global/local approach for its customers.
As a manufacturer itself, BAMS understands the unique environments of each individual manufacturer within the key markets of Medtech, Food & Beverage, Start-Ups and Electronics Manufacturing.
BAMS has vast experience in designing and building a range of reliable robotics and automation applications including automated assembly, packing, palletising, labelling, vision and high precision mechanical assembly.
BAMS says it strives to find the best solution to suit the customer’s manufacturing environment and importantly, keep manufacturing in Australia. By supplying bespoke robotics and automation solutions, manufacturing consulting and maintenance services, BAMS is committed to supporting Australian manufacturers.
Helping to automate
One such company is Fletcher Insulation, a leading insulation manufacturer and distributor supplying renowned brands to Australians. Fletcher looked for a company that could help automate a process at its Dandenong facility and BAMS provided the company with the certainty that it could deliver the project.
The task for BAMS was to design a machine that would automatically bag Fletcher’s insulation product, thereby enabling the redeployment of the Fletcher staff, who had previously completed the manual labour-intensive job of bagging the insulation, to other areas of the process. For this to work, Fletcher Insulation had to engage with its employees and make sure they were comfortable moving from a highly manual task that they had been doing for over 40 years, to running an automated machine. The BAMS machines do the same thing that the operator did but in an automated fashion and, with a much larger roll of materials.
As a result of the automation, the operators at Fletcher Insulation are now more engaged in the process, rather than sitting in one spot for manual bagging and handling.
“BAMS is able to gather a lot of experience, not just from the projects we work on locally in Australia, but also the projects that are being done around the world,” said Peter Hook, general manager, BAMS.
In the end, success for BAMS means that the customers are happy, they have a solution that works for them, and they can continue to manufacture into the future
