The customer’s business has been expanding at about 30 to 50% per year, & the manual welding process could not keep up with the demand for sub-assemblies. Further, increasing cost of purchased assemblies necessitated the company review bringing in-house welding of additional products & assemblies. There was limited space available for the welding cell as the production pace accelerated.

Sunshine TOOL supplied the following items:

• 7 axis welding robot & attending MIG welding system
•  Overhead suspension of the robot for reduced footprint.
• Completely modular welding fixtures
• Modular welding positioner to handle components up to 11 feet in length & with smaller assemblies 3 fixtures on each side of the positioner. This increased the production of several components & assemblies.
•  All safety equipment, integration & installation

The system provided:

• Increased & consistent quality of welds
• 30 to 40% faster welding of assemblies with reduced cost
• Modularity of fixtures allows for full use of the positioner regardless of the part or parts being welded
• Significantly reduced rejects & wasted materials
• Increased profitability by producing in-house