News Who knew a tent could become a high tech workspace? EICA and Bystronic just made it happen!
They manufactured trolleys, tables and other stainless-steel furnishings that were easy to keep clean in healthcare environments. You have probably seen this one before, says Mikael, holding up an operating theatre chair in the latest version.
And you certainly recognize it! The shiny steel stool still stands in countless numbers, seemingly indestructible, in examination rooms all over the country. A bit of a design classic that has in recent years become a chic interior detail in hip shops and homes.
Changes and adaptation
Instrument tables and storage areas for operating rooms and other things with high hygienic requirements in stainless steel with clean, easy-to-wipe surfaces were on customers' order lists, and the many years of experience meant that the order books were filled even during the corona pandemic when many vaccination centres were filled with equipment from EICA.
Today, some are still in stainless steel, but as primarily a contract manufacturer, we adapt to customers' wishes in the material they want, in both smaller and larger series.
Mikael Carlsson
The tent project
The building committee decided on the additional equipment for the fiber laser!
At EICA, they believe in the future, and in order to increase the level of automation, they decided to expand the machinery and expand the existing premises to make room for the new investment, a fiber laser from Bystronic of 10 000 W with a high warehouse, but they didn't get it!
Well, the laser worked, but the municipal building committee did not give EICA a building permit for more than seven meters in height to the roof ridge, which was strange, in Mikael's opinion as there are other taller industrial buildings in the area, and EICA does not have any neighbours.
But our property was regulated by an older building plan, and they couldn't change their mind, so we had to adapt instead. The result was an insulated tent of 600 square meters that met the municipal dimensions, and Bystronic presented a solution to the height problem: a ByLoader Flex that can handle the ceiling height where high warehouses do not work.
Mikael Carlsson
EICA was the second in Sweden to have the new Flex installed, and it fits very well into their tent.
The tent was an unusual solution and inside we meet laser operators Catharina Bengtsson and Mikael Gustavsson who note that it is insulated, warm and comfortable inside even during cold winter days.
A smooth ByLoader Flex
Sheets of 15 mm are regularly cut here, and during the installation it was demonstrated that a 10 000 W fiber laser can easily cut sheets of twice the thickness. But what really stands out is the installation that lays out the sheets to be cut and then lifts the cut material to an adjacent table.
This is the third laser I have worked with in my 20 years as an operator ; it is impressively super-fast even on thicker sheets.
Catharina Bengtsson
A ByLoader is a smooth work tool that, in the new version with the name Flex, provides the opportunity to cost-effectively make the workflow frictionless in a small space.
It was the best solution for us in our tent. Creating a smooth solution on a limited surface created a well-functioning unit.
Mikael Carlsson.
The construction of a Flex means great opportunities to design the workplace based on the existing possibilities. Flexible, in other words!
A ByLoader Flex turned out to be the best accessory for the new fiber laser.
Catharina Bengtsson, Mikael Carlsson and Mikael Gustavsson like their new extension with equipment.
The sheet metal is picked up from a pallet, placed on the cutting table and then the finished cut sheet metal is placed on a table.
Laser operators Catharina Bengtsson and Mikael Gustavsson with the new laser in the brand-new building.