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Move made; making moves. A week has passed since our relocation to the new AWE Tuning headquarters, and we’re quickly settling in; it already feels like home.
We’re ready and eager to start filling our lifts with vehicles for research and development.
No rest for engineering: testing, tuning, and tinkering away.
The fabrication shop resonates with the sounds of production as our team of craftsmen work at a blurring speed to get our components in your hands. We’re taking full advantage of the new space by bringing in great talent and fine machinery to reduce all lead times.
Full steam ahead: freshly built batches of exhaust components ready to be boxed up and shipped out.
The AWE Tuning Mustang Dynamometer is in place and ready to help us extract maximum performance during development of new products. She’s looking better than ever with a fresh coat of paint.
We’re excited to personalize our new space further, next update coming next week!
Now that we are all moved in and putting the finishing touches on our new world headquarters, it was about time to bring in the big guns. So we rolled 1000 hp into our brand new showroom.
A peek back into the fabrication shop reveals one of our metal masters fabricating a performance downpipe.
Going up. This mezzanine will serve as extra storage for all of AWE Tuning.
Consistent progress: we’re moving forward quickly. More updates to come as we put our touches on the new space.
The AWE Tuning “cafe” has been populated with comfort! Having such amenities gives our new HQ a hub for departments to collide and socialize. There's also an outside area with seating, shade, umbrellas, and a grill. So wherever employees feel like kicking their feet up for a bit is purely up to them. Who doesn't appreciate options?
Depending on the time of day and how much coffee has been consumed, the cafe can either be the noisiest or the quietest room in the whole facility.
A very prominent, universal concern across all the departments in our facility is the adherence to details. Little things make big things happen. In this case, it’s packaging and shipping AWE Tuning product. Throughout our moving process, our shipping department has had to maintain the standard regardless of the conditions. Now, their new stations are coming together and the shipping department is bustling!
Our 17,000 pound bender has claimed its space in our new HQ and all systems are on the verge of getting the green light. With our fabrication team increasing by 30%, additional shipping staff, and our new machinery coming online, lead times are going to be affected by the hell-bent wrath of our Crippa in a great way!
Unique sign number two, made of 304 stainless steel. We practice what we preach. And we mean business. Spot this sign and make a turn on to Precision Drive. Come see where precision resides. We welcome you!
Our main conference room has been decked out. Complete with a custom table featuring unique characteristics and graphics depicting the pillars of AWE Tuning.
On the wall hangs the original 24-year-old AWE Tuning sign, looking better than ever.
A quarter century in the making, AWE Tuning is now in its newest, state-of-the-art facility--roughly three times our previous size. More space, more performance. It's tour time.Let's go.
Allow me to introduce AWE Tuning’s newest workhorse -- the AWE Tuning ABB IRB 1600... and we’ve affectionately dubbed her, “Abbi” (pronounced like Abby).
We’re about speed, accuracy, quality and efficiency. While not taking away from the handcrafted nature of AWE Tuning exhausts, it was time to cut out some cutting. It was time to recruit a robot.
Cue the ABB IRB 1600 -- a 250kg robot with a 6kg payload, devoted to high performance. Very appropriate.
Why ABB? Why Abbi?
ABB is the authority in automation technology for many reasons, but here’s why they were the go-to for us:
ABB has the most advanced control software out of all major robotic competitors (the actual controller itself is a gamer’s paradise!).
Abbi’s path and motion control, and accuracy -- which is critical for cutting -- is the best in the industry. All robots can go point-to-point accurately, but ours can travel between those points better than any other brand of robot.
A gearbox for each axis instead of belts and/or harmonic drives allows for very high acceleration rate and velocity.
What it means for you:
The cell (which you’ll see evolve below) is designed to cut complex 3D shapes on mandrel-bent stainless steel tubing as well as flat sheet/plate metal (more engineering freedom for innovative designs)
The freedom of a 6-axis plasma cutter means we can cut the aforementioned material to our exact specifications (more accuracy)
The beauty of non-contact cutting means the part does not need to be clamped to hold it in place (good looking outputs)
Thanks to the specialized Hypertherm system and accompanying torch that the IRB wields, the cut quality is approaching that of a laser (better repeatability)
We can prototype and iterate faster than ever before (future time savings)
Bringing it home:
X-pipes, which are featured in a number of our exhaust systems, would take eight minutes to cut on a mill. With the IRB that production is reduced by 98.6%, completing the cut in 6.6 seconds from start to finish. Wow.
Check out the inception of the AWE Tuning ABB IRB 1600 below and stay tuned for footage of it in action:
07-17-2015, 04:58 PM
