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PRESS RELEASE

Australian company to
modernise Mint with robots
2nd April 2008
Family owned, Australian
business, Australis Engineering P/L has won the tender to update
the Royal Australian Mint materials handling and warehousing
system. The new system along with the refurbishment of the Mint
facilities in Canberra and other modernisation projects is
central to the Mint objective of becoming one of the best
manufacturing facilities in the world.
Australis Engineering's
proposed solution to the Mint 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 premises.
The project provides for the
complete design, supply, installation and commissioning of
equipment and systems. This project will address all aspects of
materials handling, warehousing and inventory control from
receipt of blank coin, through manufacturing and production,
quality control and warehousing, to the despatch of finished
circulating coins.
The project will align with the
current building refurbishment project, with delivery programmed
for March 2009. The total value of the materials handling and
warehousing system contract is $7.4 million
“Australis' proposal is state of the art. Along with the
refurbishment project the new automated system using robots,
automated guided vehicles and a unique multi-axis bucket
elevator blank delivery system will ensure the Mint is a truly
modern manufacturing facility that will not only meet all the
Mint stated requirements but will attract thousands of
additional visitors to the upgraded public gallery when the
refurbished Mint reopens to the public in early 2009" said Ms
Janine Murphy, CEO of the Royal Australian Mint.
“Australis Engineering is proud to have won the contract and
very keen to be associated with the Royal Australian Mint as it
undergoes a significant period of upgrading and modernising all
aspects of its operations" said Mr Phillip Gustafson, Managing
Director of Australis Engineering.
For more information about the
Royal Australian Mint please visit
www.ramint.gov.au
Our Key Technology Partners for
this project include:



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