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Automation

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 complicated or as intimidating as it may sound. What if the production line requires multiple stations or has to handle different metal types? 

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Automation

Project Spotlight: Rail Car Assembly

When you’re riding on the subway, most people don’t think about how the car they are riding in was assembled much less the process behind it. MWES built a robotic welding system that would allow a single robot on an overhead gantry to work in tandem with human workers safely.

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Automation

Welding Large Assemblies with Robotics

Welding together complex assemblies of numerous components can be done with automation – and without massive investments in systems and workforce to make it go. Many times, with proper weld fixtures, even loading and unloading the process doesn’t require a trained welder.

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Automation

The Robot with the Reach

It’s pretty easy to envision a robot welding external features, but how about when it has to get into rather tight internal spaces? One way to do it is by combining two robots into one. That’s what ABB has done with its IRB800 seen in the picture above. In this

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Additive Manufacturing

See Us at Fabtech 2019

Visit Midwest Engineered Systems at the 2019 Fabtech Show, Booth B17035 November 11th through the 14th at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL. MWES will be showcasing our abilities in laser hybrid welding for large plate applications found in marine, energy and defense markets, as well as some of the

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Visit us at AWS’s Robotic Arc Welding Conference!

Visit MWES during American Welding Society’s 2019 National Robotic Arc Welding Conference & Exhibition, June 4-5 at the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) South Campus in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Two of our brightest in the robotic welding arena will be on-hand to talk about your application and give a unique insight into

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Additive Manufacturing

MWES’ Additive Laser Room

MWES’ Additive Laser Room re-modeling is complete and ready to build your parts. ADDere, a division of MWES, has recently completed upgrades to our laser wire additive manufacturing system which utilizes our state-of-the-art closed-loop distance and thermal sensors when creating your parts. Our high accuracy, industrial Kuka robot

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