The history and growth of Humard Automation are tightly connected to the success encountered on the market. Living an opportunistic mastered growth, the company offers nowadays a wide range of solutions. From industrial presses to assembly lines, to robotization and palletizing solutions to accessories dedicated to improve productions and even to high precision automatic lathe. Interview with Mr Georges Humard, Co-CEO with his brother Raphaël. .k
Amongst other products, Humard Automation offers a wide range of NC/CNC high precision hydraulic presses with forces from 6 to 220 tons.
Tripe effect press If the world of presses had been synonym of heavy and not flexible machines for a long time, this time is definitely behind. Nowadays Humard offers machines interpolated on 3 axes on which the pressure can be managed also on the duration (pressure can be kept as long as needed). Thus the new possibilities of pressure management have brought up to 50% of productivity for users.
Passion for automation "Our idea when founding the company was to realize special purpose machines corresponding to precise needs. We have streamlined development and industrialization of such solutions" says Mr Humard. As customers of the company we can find both machine builders and users that want to automate some machining. Another field where Humard’s skills make wonders, the complete assembly lines "Our mission is to help Swiss and European companies to stay in the race on the world market. We allocate a wide part of our budget to R&D in order to reach that aim" say Mr Humard.
Always on the watch Discussing with Humard, it is clear that they are willing to go further and always find new ideas and solutions. They are working like when the company was a start-up. Obviously it is no longer the case, but they were able to preserve the capacity to marvel and to work restlessly to find original ideas. Based on a large panel of proven modules, the company can afford always present new possibilities… perfectly reliable as based on existing solutions.
Why Humard? To the question "why are their customers working with Humard", Georges Humard says: "Our customers are our best ambassadors, the delivered solutions are working with reliability and our customers are faithful. At such a point that we haven’t had any real sales force for 15 years. Hovewer we want to widen our market coverage today". The products of Humard are their best business card. They are working relentlessly with a minimal maintenance, like a Swiss watch. They are designed with reliability in mind… and it can be found on the market.
Will deepen this article in Eurotec’s next issue.
Meanwhile if you have some questions, please contact: Humard Automation SA 6, rue St-Randoald CH-2800 Delémont Tél. +41 32 421 40 90 Fax +41 32 423 29 26 [email protected] www.humard.com
