The second shift does not call in sick. It calls for consumables.
Automation gets sold as a labour answer, and it is. But an unattended cell fails on the thing nobody scheduled — a worn abrasive, a dull tool, an empty bin. We supply the automation and the consumable program that keeps it running, which is the part most integrators leave to you.
It is heavy, dusty, hard on wrists, and the result varies by operator and by hour. Mirka’s robotic sanders bring programmed pressure, controlled abrasive change intervals and built-in extraction — so the finish is a spec instead of an outcome, and the labour goes somewhere it is worth more.
Our machinery side supplies the cells — robot loading, pallet pools and lights-out cells built on Expand Machinery platforms. Where NSIT comes in is everything the cell consumes: tooling, workholding, abrasives and the managed inventory that keeps the second and third shift from stopping on a consumable.
Abrasives wear, inserts dull, bins empty. Our managed inventory program covers the consumable side of an automated cell so the automation actually delivers the hours it was bought for.