Articles Tagged with ''spot welding''

BIW welding line boosts Ford’s flexibility in China

Automotive Industry

New Software Simulates the Body-in-White Assembly Process

Software saves time and money when setting up welding and hemming processes in a body-in-white assembly line.

March 4, 2025

PFÄFFIKON, Switzerland—AutoForm Engineering GmbH, a supplier of software for stamping and body-in-white (BiW) assembly processes, has released a new version of its AutoForm Assembly R12 software. This version offers new capabilities and enhancements for the BiW assembly process chain, in particular for hemming, process engineering, and process optimization and evaluation.

Smart Manufacturing at Audi

Digital transformation is well underway at Audi’s five assembly plants worldwide.

John Sprovieri

June 29, 2022

Automotive OEMs love to show off their automated body-in-white assembly lines. Commercials invariably feature dozens of six-axis robots producing showers of sparks in choreographed routines.

Spot Welding Metal-Plastic Composites

A new resistance spot welding process can join metal-plastic composites

Pawel Kustron Ph.D.

April 7, 2022

Metal-plastic composites (MPCs) have many advantages for producing lightweight structures. They are lighter than steel, yet very strong. They can be shaped using standard cold-forming processes. And, they are less expensive than aluminum alloys.

Optimizing the Spot Welding Process

Spot welding can be improved in many ways, starting with selecting the right machine, maintaining heat balance and using advanced controls.

Jim Camillo

April 13, 2021

Kaizen, or continuous improvement, is a basic tenet of lean manufacturing. It says, in effect, that less-than-optimal is never acceptable. The concept can be applied to every major assembly process, including resistance spot welding.

Automated Spot Welding Improves Assembly of Barbecue Grills

Zoe Leduc

June 15, 2018

Since 1937, Robert H. Peterson Co. in California has produced Fire Magic gas grills and Real-Fyre gas logs. Over the years, the company has grown steadily and their commitment to quality and craftsmanship has not changed.

Resistance Projection Welding

For joining dissimilar materials, resistance projection welding offers cost-saving options

Michael E. Fitzgerald

April 5, 2018

Arcs and sparks are commonly used to dramatically depict welding in television commercials, photographs and other images. But in resistance projection welding (RPW), such flashes of light indicate poor welding.

Adaptive Control of Resistance Welding

Tom Taylor

February 1, 2012

A new technology could reduce, or even eliminate, the need for destructive and nondestructive testing of robotically welded joints.

Riveting: Self-Piercing Rivets vs. Spot Welding

Jim Camillo

December 23, 2010

For the past 15 years or so, assemblers have used SPR as an alternative to spot welding, especially when joining aluminum with other materials. The reasons why SPR is preferred are many.

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