Part Identification Experience

Balancing Machine Experience

Boring Machine Experience

Error Proofing Experience

Flex Machine Experience

Gaging Experience

Testing Experience

Transfer Machine Experience

Welding Machine Experience

System: Bar code system to identify differential carriers for an axle assembly line

Solution: Design a special label and adhesive to adhere to the part despite a build up of oil and grease

Product: Schreiner custom labels

Supplier: Schreiner

End User: American Axle & Manufacturing - Detroit, Michigan

System: Single station balancer

Solution: Design and build of controls system

Controls Used: FloPro with GE I/O

Machine Builder: ITW Balance Engineering

End User: GM Powertrain - Windsor, Ontario

System: Two axis boring machine to finish bore the ball joint and bushing holes on an A-arm for Daimler-Chrysler trucks

Solution: Design and build of machine

Controls Used: Allen-Bradley

Machine Builder: Advanced Research Company

End User: Oxford Automotive - Lapeer, Michigan

System: Error proofing system for two axle assembly lines to ensure that no axle is shipped without being properly and completely assembled

Solution: Full turnkey operation

Controls Used: Entivity Steeplechase VLC, SQL Server, Intellution FIX

Hardware Build: Advanced Research Company

End User: American Axle & Manufacturing - Detroit, Michigan

System: Flex machine with CNC machining

centers

Solution: Integrated the controls, automatic in-process gaging, servo positioning and part tracking

Controls Used: Giddings & Lewis

Machine Builder: Agnew Machine

End User: Chrysler - Syracuse, New York

System: Semi-automatic gaging system for rear axle shim determination

Solution: Complete design, build and start-up

Controls Used: Allen-Bradley

Machine Builder: Advanced Research Company

End User: Nissan - Smyrna, Tennessee

System: Destructive test machine for evaluating the integrity of the Dodge Dakota instrument panel

Solution: Design and build of a servo controlled test fixture

Controls Used: National Instruments, Emerson Electric

Machine Builder: Advanced Research Company

End User: Textron - Rantoul, Illinois

System: 7 station flexible machining transfer line

Solution: Complet turn-key services for machine controls, design, build, installation and start-up

Controls Used: GE Series 6, GE Fanuc CNC

Machine Builder: Toyoda

End User: Dana Corporation - Cape Girardeau, Missouri

System: Two multi-station laser welding machines

Solution: Re-design existing controls for better reliability and ease of use

Controls Used: Entivity Think & Do, Galil motion control, Honeywell SDS I/O

Machine Builder: Retrofit of existing machines

End User: Powerlasers Corporation - Pioneer, Ohio