{"id":308,"date":"2009-05-23T12:08:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T02:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2022-05-08T08:03:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T22:03:02","slug":"setting-new-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/cnc-routers\/setting-new-standards","title":{"rendered":"Setting new standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high demand for its products and eager plans to drastically reduce lead-times led Australia\u2019s largest bus manufacturer \u2013 Volgren &#8211;\u00a0 to invest in a Australian-built CNC router from Brisbane-based Advanced Robotic Technology (ART) \u2013 the 16000SX. The new router will be used to pre-drill the holes to further decrease lead-times and has proved to be cutting at four times the speed as the previous one. The company is so impressed they are thinking of purchasing a third. Unlike many other manufacturers during these times, Volgren is experiencing an upturn of 42% in sales this financial year and plans to manufacture as many as 630 buses. Bruce Hobbs, GM, comments that Volgren\u2019s buses are unique. They have an aluminium body and bolted together rather than fabricated and welded, so therefore not as many jigs and fixtures are needed. Over 20,000 buses manufactured worldwide and all using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miramarspeedcircuit.com\/box-truck-leasing\/\">box truck lease<\/a> tech to help power the automotive standard.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Volgren.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-309\" style=\"margin: 9px;\" title=\"Volgren\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Volgren.jpg?resize=560%2C620&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Volgren.jpg?w=760&amp;ssl=1 760w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Volgren.jpg?resize=270%2C300&amp;ssl=1 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Published AMT magazine May 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Download full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Volgren-bus-manufacture.pdf\">Volgren bus manufacture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high demand for its products and eager plans to drastically reduce lead-times led Australia\u2019s largest bus manufacturer \u2013 Volgren &#8211;\u00a0 to invest in a Australian-built CNC router from Brisbane-based Advanced Robotic Technology (ART) \u2013 the 16000SX. The new router&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/cnc-routers\/setting-new-standards\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,1,20],"tags":[37,105,108],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-studies","category-cnc-routers","category-truck-caravan-manufacturing","tag-aluminium","tag-sx-router","tag-transport"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advancedrobotic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}