Project Spotlight: Welding and Milling Bus Bars Robotically With the current ongoing labor shortage, skilled welders are in short supply, leaving many businesses to rely more heavily on robotics to fill that void. Fully automating a 24/7 welding operation is not as...
Project Spotlight: Trigger & Bottle Assembly Line Looking at a spray bottle of glass cleaner at the store, one doesn’t put too much thought into how much work went into attaching the trigger to the bottle, or whether it was a person or a robot that...
Project Spotlight: Rail Car Assembly When you’re riding on the train, most people don’t think about how the rail car they are riding in was assembled much less the process behind it. Midwest Engineered Systems built a robotic welding system that would...
What’s on our floor: SkyHook Extra-Large Positioners Automation systems come in a variety of sizes. Some are small enough to process sensitive medical operations, and some can process parts the size or weight of a car and beyond. Today on our floor, we have a couple...
Project Spotlight: Automated Picture Frame Assembly Automating high volume production operations is relatively straight forward: design a specialized machine that only produces one part. The rest of the time is spent to make it robust enough to do it at speed and for...
Robotic Palletizer that Handles a Variety of Product Sizes Many don’t realize that robot arms can be equipped with an End of Arm Tool (EOAT) that is capable of cleanly grabbing multiple products at once. Check out a video of this system in action on YouTube. Midwest...
