CASE STUDY: Rear Axle Assemblies

  Process: Steel GMAW Welding/Hydraulic clamping Industry: Trucking Industry Parts: Rear Axle Assemblies Company: Tier One supplier to automotive and trucking industry   Project Results Robotic system meets or exceeds project requirements for welding axle ring and cover components to axle sub assembly.  Tennessee Rand robotic systems are the standard for this process in operations…

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CASE STUDY: Toilet Seat Assembly

  Process: Toilet Seat Assembly Industry: Home products Parts: Injection Molded Toilet Seats Company: Leading supplier of Home Products   Project Results  Automation project started with a trial manufacturing cell which has successfully ran in production for 2 years.  Company has decided to invest in 10 more machines which will allow full automation of their…

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CASE STUDY: Laser Welding using HighYag RLSK Scanning Optics

  Process: Laser Welding Industry: Automotive Parts: Seating Components Company: Tier-One Automotive supplier   Project Results Robot Remote Laser welding system for seat back components achieves 148 welds in 45 seconds with 100% weld inspection as each weld is monitored for “PASS” or “FAIL” conditions.   Challenges Customer required 100% inspection of the 148 laser welds…

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CASE STUDY: Flatbed Aluminum Trailers

Process: Aluminum GMAW Welding/Material Handling Industry: Tractor/Trailer Parts: Aluminum Flat Bed Trailers (48-53 ft. in length) Company: Manufacturer of Flatbed Aluminum Trailers   Project Results Robotic system meets or exceeds project requirements for welding trailer components and material handling. Visual welds along entire length of 53 ft of trailer. Robot systems and material handling systems for…

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CASE STUDY: Trumpf CO2 Laser Welding

  Process: CO2 Remote Laser Welding Industry: Automotive Parts: Seating Components Company: Tier-One Automotive Supplier   Project Results Remote CO2 Laser welding system meets or exceeds project requirements for welding seat back components that includes tooling changeover for multiple assemblies. Remote CO2 laser system with quick-change tooling achieves and exceeds customer’s expectations.   Challenges Integrating remote CO2 laser…

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RIA Announces First Certified Robot Integrators

Robotic Industries Association (Ann Arbor, Michigan) JR Automation, Motion Controls Robotics, Tennessee Rand, and Wolf Robotics are the first four robotic integrators to receive the new Certified Robot Integrator designation from the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry’s trade group. “We are very excited to announce this first group of Certified Robotic Integrators,” said Jeff…

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Tennessee Rand Builds System to Produce Seats For New Volkswagen Sedan

Tennessee Rand has been awarded a contract to build robotic systems and tooling for a Tier 2 supplier to the new Volkswagen that will be built here in Chattanooga. Tennessee Rand is currently building the system that will produce Front Seat Back assemblies for the new mid-sized sedan. The system, that includes ABB robots for…

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