Welding & Automation, Inc. brings you the highest quality engineering and manufacturing equipment for resistance welding/soldering through the product line by Hanson Welding Machines as well as the design and creation of fully custom welding and automation systems.
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Semi-Automatic Seam Welder
This semi-automatic seam welder is a unique four station indexing machine designed to seam weld tubular metal components with an ID range of 3”-10” and a length of 6” to 16”. The indexing positions are as follows:
- Station #1: Manually load tubular metal components
An operator will load pre-rolled tubes onto an arbor and enable the clamping mechanism which will accurately lock the component in position. When all four processing stations are satisfied, the indexing dial will move to the next processing station. - Station #2: Weld
This station consists of a servo driven linear slide that positions and moves the seam welding wheel along the tube seam line. The slide travel is fully programmable through the control system and can be selected by product type for efficient product change over and set up. The seam welding head assembly incorporates a programmable dynamic spring force system that precisely controls the force that the welding wheel exerts on the tube for optimal weld quality, and wheel life. A mid frequency (1 kHz) power supply provide the weld energy and pulse rate necessary to achieve optimal speed production through put. The welding wheel, the main mounting block and the secondary indexing bars are all water cooled to maintain efficiency of the operation. - Station #3: Idle
- Station 4: Offload Welded Liners
A servo actuated unloading mechanism automatically removes the tube from the indexing bar and drop it onto a transport conveyor.
- Station #1: Manually load tubular metal components
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Automatic Motor Loader
This automatic loading station is one of 26 active stations on a 50-pallet precision indexer. Trays of motors are factory packed in trays 6 rows deep with 8 motors in each row. The trays are released one at a time from a tray stacker onto a conveyor and moved into position at the automatic motor loading position. A horizontal pick and place mechanism extends and secures a row of 8 motors and places all 8 motors on a precision transfer belt simultaneously. The horizontal pick and place is servo controlled to index to the proper motor row for pick up and transfer. This system loads 1,440 motors per hour.
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Water Heater Base Seam Welder
This is a manually loaded and unloaded seam welding machine utilizing one operator. In operation the operator receives pre-rolled water heater bases from a previous operation in bulk and loads the base onto fixturing that locates, positions, and clamps the base prior to welding. The tooling is fully adjustable and able to accept the full range of water heater bases. Once loaded, the operator initiates the machine cycle. When complete, the operator removes the completed part and then reloads. The system utilizes a 50KVA midfrequency water cooled welding system that integrates with a linear transport seam welding wheel with fully adjustable force system.
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Precision Soldering and Welding
This precision soldering and welding system was custom designed and built to reflow solder for a medical application. It required reflow soldering a cable with 4 pre-tinned conductors on 0.100” centers to a sensing head with gold plated terminals also on 0.100” centers.
We recognized that this application would require special fixturing to align the components and position them precisely with the electrodes. We chose to use our model AP-2D-2W dual ram weld head for the application since it is equipped with two upper rams with individual force systems and independent head firing switches. By spacing the electrode center lines 0.200” apart we could sequentially actuate both upper rams from one position and achieve two solder joints at positions 1 & 3. At completion of 1 & 3 we index the lower tooling 0.100” and the repeat the process described above and join the components at positions 2 & 4 eliminating any necessity for removing the very fragile components from the tooling until completed.
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Robot Part Loader
This robotic work cell was developed for an automotive parts manufacture to assist in the the assembly of a very small part into a plastic element for a turn signal assembly. We chose to leave the small parts on a reel as they exit the blanking press rather than singulate them into bulk as is normally done. This eliminates part distortion, the need for bowl feeding, and significantly improved assembly up time.
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Vacuum Sensor Assembly Machine
This photo is a precision link indexer under construction for an automotive supplier to assemble and test a vacuum safety device to ensure that the power brakes will continue to operate if the car engine fails. It includes many processes:
- Heat staking
- Leak testing
- Circuit board handling
- Component soldering
- Circuit board calibration
- Automatic parts loading and unloading
We have a long history of automating complex assemblies using precision link chassis.
Custom Automated Welding System
With 50 years of experience to draw upon we can custom engineer a modular welding system for easy system integration, develop the welding process complete with weld schedules, and provide custom tooling to meet any specific need, Our custom welding systems experience includes: Resistance, Laser, Plasma Arc, and TIG.
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