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Article: Robotic welding gives a lift to production: a manufacturer that makes parts as few as one at a time for its electric lift trucks discovered its parts could be welded more consistently with robotic welders.(WELDING)
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- Modern Applications News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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Customers gel a lift from Crown Equipment Corp.'s products--electric lift trucks--but in a plant where small-quantity production is necessary. Crown found its welding productivity was falling down. Until, that is, it investigated automated welding.
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Fabricators, such as Crown, are discovering the benefits of robotic welding in areas they never before suspected. In fact, more job shops and contract manufacturers are finding productivity gains moving to welding automation in applications once ignored.
Robotics was once considered exclusive to mass production. Now, companies such as Crown have burst that myth to find ...