Luitink's Robotic Welding System Includes Two FANUC ArcMate Robots with R-J2 Controllers and Two Lincoln Power Wave 450 Power Sources

Article From Lincolnelectric.com

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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