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Company saves money with crash protection device. (Assembly in Action).
"We use industrial robots to perform the adhesive trace operations on our assembly lines. We have more than 20 robots using a crash protection device, and we have virtually eliminated downtime and retraining on these systems," says Bert Britton, technical engineering supervisor for Guide Corp. (Monroe, LA). "Since installing the crash protection device, we have saved approximately $16,000 in labor costs per month."
Guide Corp. uses crash protection devices supplied by ATI Industrial Automation (Apex, NC). The company produces headlights for automobiles. It introduced the first electric headlight in 1908. Guide now builds 70 percent of all headlights for General Motors Corp.'s vehicles.
In the company's assembly operations, subassemblies are manually loaded into trays that are fed into the robot cell. The robot dispenses adhesive into a channel at the rate of one part every 24 seconds.
In the past, if a part was loaded into ...
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