Guide Corp. uses crash protection devices supplied by ATI Industrial Automation (Apex, NC). The company produces headlights for automobiles. It introduced the first electric headlight in 1908. Guide now builds 70 percent of all headlights for General Motors Corp.’s vehicles.
In the company’s assembly operations, subassemblies are manually loaded into trays that are fed into the robot cell. The robot dispenses adhesive into a channel at the rate of one part every 24 seconds.