Assembly Automation
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Implementing automated assembly equipment can be complex, but it’s essential to keep up with the manufacturing industry’s labor shortage and increasing labor cost. In order to ensure your business reaps the benefits of automation, it’s important to partner with a company with expertise in production line automation solutions dow to the smallest detail.
Whether the discrete components of your assembly line are small precision pieces or larger parts, Isthmus can assess the fundamental aspects of your overall process – production throughput, component part handling, assembly sequence, and in-line inspection – and develop industrial automation system integrators that improve your business and ensure a rewarding return on investment.
Assembly Manufacturing for Manufacturers
Production Throughput
An automated assembly equipment can operate continuously without interruption from breaks, shift changes, or human error.
Component Part Handling
Robotics systems can repeatedly position components and parts to highly specific parameters – in ways that are incredibly difficult to perform manually.
Assembly Sequence
By performing the same steps in the assembly process in the same order every time, automated assembly machinery removes human variability while increasing precision, consistency, and production speed.
In-Line Quality Inspection
As part of production line automation solutions, advanced vision systems and sensors can inspect 100% of your products for defects in milliseconds, helping improve quality and reduce rework.
Flexible Assembly Systems
Easily adapt to new products or design changes with reprogrammable, modular automation that minimizes downtime and maximizes ROI.
Robotics & Systems Integration
Seamlessly integrate robotics systems to enhance precision, speed, and consistency across every stage of your assembly process.
Advantages of Automating Assembly Production
Lower Production Costs
Production line automation solutions create less waste, perform less errors, and lower labor expenses. This increases efficiency, lowers production cost, and contributes to a healthy ROI.
Increased Quality & Consistency:
Production line automation solutions not only increase efficiency and precision, but reduce product defects and result in better quality control. The use of automated assembly equipment removes the need for repetitive human assembly tasks, eliminating human errors.
Increased Manufacturing Capacity:
Automated assembly equipment can work much faster – and at a consistently faster rate than human labor. This opens the door for your business to ramp up capacity and take on larger contracts.
Common Assembly Automation Questions
Is my business a good candidate for assembly automation?
Do you have a high-speed or high-volume production line? Do your products have limited or similar variants? Is inline quality control and traceability necessary? Are your products complex to manufacture or require extreme precision? Do your products pose ergonomic or safety risks to operators? If any of this rings true to you, assembly automation will greatly benefit your business. Automated assembly equipment can help manufacturers increase throughput and consistency, especially for complex and high-precision products.
Does assembly automation adhere to lean manufacturing principles?
Yes. At Isthmus, we design custom systems that deliver exactly what you need without unnecessary additional hardware. The goal is production line automation solutions that improves yield and improves waste output.
Which parts of my assembly line can be automated?
Isthmus can develop equipment to automate virtually every part of your assembly line, from initial part feeding and material handling through final assembly and packaging. Our automated assembly machinery can be customized to support your production goals.
What assembly automation equipment do you offer?
Our experienced engineers can design anything from highly specialized fixed machines to flexible, multi-purpose robots. In order to meet the needs of your unique assembly line, we will draw on our decades of automation engineering experience to develop a custom plan which carefully integrates the assembly automation equipment that best suits your facility. This could include pick-and-place robots, continuous assembly machines, and flexible assembly systems (FAS) – just to name a few.
How much does assembly automation cost? When will I see the ROI?
Automated Assembly equipment is a major up-front investment. We can’t predict a specific cost, since that depends on the amount of automation equipment we implement and the level of specialization. Our team will work to optimize the ROI for your production line automation solutions.
Does Isthmus outsource any part of the assembly automation designing and building process?
Isthmus does not outsource. We have all of the required engineering and assembly resources we need at our Madison, Wisconsin facility.
How long does the assembly automation process take?
The timeline varies depending on the complexity of the project, with more advanced production line automation solutions typically requiring additional engineering and testing. At Isthmus, we handle every aspect of the automation process, from concept development and custom automated assembly equipment design through installation and ongoing support. Relying on a single source for your automation needs creates a more efficient, streamlined process and helps keep projects on schedule.
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