Australian Company to Modernize Mint with Robots
Family owned, Australian business, Australis Engineering P/L has won the tender to update the Royal Australian Mint’s materials handling and warehousing system. The new system along with the refurbishment of the Mint’s facilities in Canberra and other modernisation projects is central to the Mint’s objective of becoming one of the best manufacturing facilities in the world.
Australis Engineering’s proposed solution to the Mint’s requirements incorporates high levels of process automation, modernised infrastructure and equipment, and re-engineered processes to:
- increase the physical security of coinage blanks and coins;
- reduce OH&S risks through the physical separation of people and equipment;
- reduce or eliminate manual handling within the Mint;
- automate the real time accounting and auditing of blanks and coins as they progress through the receipt, production, storage and delivery processes; and
- minimise time wasted with work in progress and the transportation of materials around the Mint’s premises.
