At Comau, we’ve thrived over the past few years through adapting to our customers’ needs and the market, not only from a product and value perspective but, more importantly, through the collective efforts of our people.

Customer Development Collaboration

While Comau was historically organized by product line, today we operate as one unit to meet customers’ needs in various locations and industries. For example, our Powertrain and BodyWelding groups work together to develop solutions to assembly challenges for our customers in industries like aerospace, heavy industry, packaging, etc. Combining the skills of our people and the technical know-how from each area of the company has allowed Comau to win orders that we may not have been able to bid on if operating independently.

Shared Resources

With Proposal, Engineering, and Program Management teams operating in nearly every time zone, Comau is able to share resources needed to bid, manage and execute a program based on skills and cost competitiveness. For example, engineering and build can be done in Italy for a portion of a job, while testing and complete installation can be done in the U.S., leveraging the key areas of the company to provide the most cost effective and efficient solution.

Product and Customer Development

While our historic partners remain essential to our business, there has been a significant investment in time and resources to help develop game changing solutions for our customers in industries like aerospace, rail transport, construction vehicles, solar energy, and wind energy. These initiatives couldn’t be put into place without collaboration between our distributed offices and their skills. Heavy emphasis has been placed on co-development which leads to better communication, understanding, and implementation of what is purchased. These activities help transform a customer-supplier relationship into a partnership.

Technology Sharing

An example of a shared technology between our BodyWelding and Assembly Group and Powertrain Group utilizes our own vision system to perform robotized piston insertion on an existing line with large part-to-part locating variance.  This system was developed jointly between two Comau groups, generating new business for our company.

Comau has an extensive base of experience in terms of technical solutions, and in our people.  Knowledge and proven solutions must be shared globally. Through web based applications, we are able to share data, hard and soft designs, as well as general collaboration and our knowledge bases online.  

Comau routinely assembles employees from around the world for workshops that promote sharing of experiences and team building. Our ability to make our skills and information accessible to our employees in different locations and different skill areas is one of the reasons Comau is competitive today and a viable entity for years to come.