Zero Setup Time: Inside Norbert Kempf CNC-Technik GmbH's 23-Machine Automated Shop

Podcast: Lights Out: Technology and Automation Podcast by MakingChips · Nick Goellner

Opublikowano: 2026-09-11

Eric opens this episode describing a dream he had. A shop with no standalone machines. Three hundred and nine pallets moving 1,600 times a day. A central tool system holding 5,500 tools, five Fanuc robots shuttling up to 800 of them daily, and not a single crash. The punchline is that it wasn't a dream. He'd just walked through it. That shop is Norbert Kempf CNC-Technik in St. Ingbert, Germany, a 100-person contract machine shop that runs simple to highly complex parts in batches of one to 500. We caught up with owner and managing director Stefan Kempf on his own...