Automated workflows show me the "red thread." The standardized procedure protects me from unnecessary errors and gives me much faster CAM programming. However, I can still intervene flexibly at any time. And automation means that I can give the machine operator a safe CAM program with a clear conscience. 

Because automation is specifically not series-dependent, I need a standardized and consistent clamping system for a lot size of 1. Only in this way can I minimize expensive and elaborate set-up times, clamp a wide range of components quickly, flexibly and with a reproducible zero point and automate production cost-effectively and expediently with a large number of variants.  

For me, automation means optimally combining the milling strategy, machining material and cutting data such as feed rate, speed and stepover with the right tool and without the need for CAM programmers or machine operators to concern themselves about it. This "automatically" provides greater process reliability, improved dimensional accuracy and longer tool service life.

A holistic solution is only as good as its individual components. From my perspective, the machine tool is the heart of a manufacturing process. Especially for automated concepts, the additional components such as the right milling strategy, the right tools and the optimal setup on the machine are determining. Only when this is in place can the heart – the machine – beat properly.