Luitink's Robotic Welding System Includes Two FANUC ArcMate Robots with R-J2 Controllers and Two Lincoln Power Wave 450 Power Sources
Brief Summary:
When Luitink Manufacturing Co. became the supplier of shock caps for the Ford Ranger the demand was more than manual welding could supply. They decided to purchase a robotic system from Lincoln Electric Company, the speed and accuracy of robotic welding helped increase the volume of their operation thus meeting demands.- Since robotic welding is new to us, when we first started investigating the process we thought our operators would have to wait for the robots to do their job.
- According to Krajna, Luitink is very pleased with the robotic system purchased from The Lincoln Electric Company.
- Prior to receiving the Ford shock cap project in August 1997, Luitink had never used robotics.
- We then shipped them to Lincoln's Cleveland headquarters where the Automation engineers mounted the robots directly to our tables.
- Luitink's system includes two FANUC ArcMate robots with R-J2
controllers and two Lincoln Power Wave® 450 power sources and
accompanying wire feeders.
- The robotic cell utilizes .045" diameter Lincoln L-50™ wire and a shielding gas mixture of 85 percent argon and 15 percent C02.
- Once the right parts are welded, the robot arms move to the second fixture to weld the left parts that are positioned and waiting.
- Luitink has a safety feature to the cell -- a safety mat that will automatically shut the robots off if someone gets too close to them.
- We were provided some hands-on training while the robots were being installed
- The robots at Luitink run 52 weeks a year for 20 hours each day and require very little maintenance.
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