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Itasca, IL – Many manufacturers are discovering the benefits of robotic welding in areas they never before suspected. In fact, more and more job shops, small businesses and large manufacturers are finding enormous productivity gains moving to welding automation in previously ignored applications.

While robotics was once considered a means exclusively for mass production, companies such as Crown Equipment Corp. have dispelled that myth and continue to find substantial gains welding as few as one unit for a variety of separate parts using automation.

Working with Lincoln Electric, Crown engineers, using a universal mounting and fixture plate system, started building dozens of robotic welding fixtures for new welding cells. They were all built on common fixture plates that matched up with the locating pins on the frames and tables in the robotic weld cells for easy installation and removal. This allowed every welding fixture the ability to be quickly changed in and out as needed or moved from one robotic weld cell to the other.

They found that the average fixture change-out time was about five minutes, using the new universal plates and pinpoints. Crown put the new system to work on parts identified by the survey for immediate cost savings, such as motor mounts, cross braces, brake pedals, carriages, latch plates, light brackets and battery retainers.

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