Welding health – welding cells for the healthcare industry

When one thinks about the indus­tries that might use a robot­ic weld­ing cell, one might con­sid­er the auto­mo­tive or the elec­tron­ics indus­try, and even the aero­space indus­try. How­ev­er, it is doubt­ful that their first thought would be the health­care indus­try – and that would be wrong.

The health­care indus­try has been using robot­ics for years to man­u­fac­ture their prod­ucts, and those appli­ca­tions include welding.

Health­care prod­uct man­u­fac­tur­er Mid­mark Cor­po­ra­tion has had weld­ing cell automa­tion in their facil­i­ty since 2005 when they inte­grat­ed a Motoman weld­ing cell with a robot welder and a robot posi­tion­er. The weld cell was installed to assem­ble and weld cab­i­nets for exam­i­na­tion tables.

From that weld­ing cell, Mid­mark has expand­ed its busi­ness, even adding a GMAW cell for those high­er-vol­ume prod­uct lines. They even invest­ed in a lean­er robot­ic weld cell for a low­er vol­ume line over time.

Mid­mark made these invest­ments because their man­u­al weld­ing appli­ca­tion was just too labor-inten­sive. By chang­ing from a man­u­al appli­ca­tion to an auto­mat­ed robot weld­ing cell, the com­pa­ny was able to relieve three work­ers to oth­er areas that were less labor inten­sive. They were also able to run their cell two shifts per day, pro­cess­ing 150 weld­ments per shift.

The robot weld­ing cells also brought the com­pa­ny more accu­ra­cy and all-around bet­ter prod­ucts. Once they switched to able to increase their error-proof­ing and qual­i­ty con­trol prac­tices, which helped to enhance their prod­ucts overall.

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