Welding applications at JR Automation take on many forms. We offer advanced expertise in both metal and plastic welding, GMAW, resistance, laser, ultrasonic, and friction welding, to name a few.

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What is welding automation?

Welding automation involves using technology to join materials together faster, safer, and more efficiently than using human labor alone. Welding automation comes in many forms. Because there are many types of welding, there are many ways JR Automation can integrate robotics or other automation technology into welding processes.

How welding automation benefits your business

Welding automation strategically integrates technology into your welding processes. Welding automation benefits include reduced cycle time, improved weld consistency, improved worker safety, custom tooling, increased uptime, reduced labor costs, and conservation of materials.

Increased uptime

JR Automation welding solutions can run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. More importantly, welding automation equipment is efficient. It can complete jobs faster and more consistently than manual labor, completing more welds in the same amount of time.

Reduced labor costs and improved worker safety

Manual welding has a steep total cost of ownership, considering your team's training, managing, and safety precautions. Protecting against the heat and fumes is a challenge. With welding automation, you can reduce the amount of time and money that goes into welding technician staffing and training, keep your workers free from welding cells, and focus on completing projects.

Reduced waste

With welding automation, we can dial in and regulate process variables for better control and faster travel speeds. Automated welding systems run efficiently, reducing non-welding time and waste from non-value-added time by your human workforce. Welding robots are accurate and consistent, reducing errors, wasted materials, and time spent. This efficiency leads to high-quality welds using fewer resources.

How JR Automation helps you with welding processes

We have the size and experience to provide the welding automation turnkey solution and tooling equipment you need. Our in-house degreed welding engineers can build new solutions virtually through simulations and off-line programming or through the use of our in-house welding lab, from laser welding solutions to simple automated GMAW welding cells. When you work with JR Automation, we leverage our decades of diverse experience and welding knowledge.

We specialize in integrating welding automation solutions into your production process. We combine our expertise in automation, material handling, laser welding, GMAW, resistance welding, ultrasonic welding, cell design, and tool design. We also offer full support in tooling and welding cells for an advanced welding solution. Our partners include WTC, Bosch, ABB, Yaskawa, Lincoln, Fanuc, Miller, IPG, Trumpf, Fronius, Tregaskiss, and many more.

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Examples of welding automation in action

JR Automation has designed and deployed solutions in various industries, including aerospace, consumer products, healthcare, agriculture, and automotive. From the precise welds of electronic circuit boards to general manufacturing, we have the solution and experience you need to deploy quickly.

Friction stir welding for automotive applications

When building vehicles, weight matters. MIG, TIG, and other welding solutions add more weight to the materials, so we designed an automated friction stir welding solution for one of our customers, which efficiently welded aluminum parts together with less heat and no added weight compared to other methods.

Ultrasonic welding polypropylene webs

One of our food and beverage customers needed a complete solution to weld together, fill, and seal delicate pouches. JR Automation combined sonic welding and assembly process automation to complete the pouch with a freshness tag.

Technical Capabilities

JR Automation's expertise in many areas in welding makes us stronger and more creative for your application. Our expertise includes:

Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW; MIG; MAG)

Resistance Welding

Laser Welding

TIG Welding

Projection Welding

Friction Stir Welding

Inline Weld Process Monitoring

Ultrasonic Welding

Plastics Welding

Heatstake Welding

Hot Plate Welding

IR Welding

RF Welding

Spin Welding

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Applicable Industries

Laser Welding Solutions

Laser welding provides a low-heat input solution in a fraction of the time compared to conventional welding methods.

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CASE STUDY

JR Solution Leads to Cost, Time, and Operator Savings for Customer

A flexible welding cell had to designed and built for low volume production runs of more than 100 different part types. Additional requirements included automated rapid changeovers of less than one minute, cycle times of (3) seconds per weld, eliminating the need for operators to move heavy weld fixtures, focusing on quality control for different part materials and thicknesses, and improving weld consistency.

Technical Capabilities Involed:

welding applications
robotics integration
material handling solutions

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Our Project Execution Process (PEP) uses a proprietary phase gate approach to managing and delivering automation solutions. This advanced methodology keeps our global teams in sync, improves project planning, enables effective scaling, and ensures we're always learning and improving from our experience. Applied alongside our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) System, this process facilitates effective collaboration and keeps cross-functional product development data unified and integrated into downstream manufacturing systems. Bottom line: we have the people, processes, and systems in place to deliver excellence—every time.

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My favorite challenge is the tooling for a cell. Getting to put it all together and work with the engineers to debug and dial it in so that we are making great parts.

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JR Automation partners with the world's leading manufacturers to design, build, and integrate custom automation solutions. Time and again, we've proven that hard work and creativity can uncover opportunities others never thought possible.

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