EVANSVILLE, IN—Systems integrator Evana Automation recently shipped a custom-built depaneling cell to a leading Tier 1 automotive supplier. The fully automatic cell loads circuit board panels from standard magazines and depanels them using servo-driven router heads. The individual boards are then loaded into trays, which are automatically stacked.
HUBER HEIGHTS, OH—Systems integrator Process Equipment Co. has gone from a building with a partially collapsed roof to a new facility that’s a “paradise of precision.” Now the company is looking to hire.
LAKE ORION, MI—Leoni Vision Solutions has become the first machine vision integrator to successfully complete the Automated Imaging Association’s Certified Systems Integrator program.
SHELBY TOWNSHIP, MI—Systems integrator Fori Automation Inc. could add up to 50 jobs over the next five years, after completing a new, $1 million facility here. Fori has hired 54 employees since 2009.
ROYAL OAK, MI—With orders to automate the auto industry increasing, systems integrator Comau Inc. has reopened its production facility here, investing $2 million in office and plant upgrades.
LONDON, ON—Systems integrator Edge Automation has designed an multistation automated assembly system that can produce a sophisticated golf ball-sized transmission sensor every 10 seconds.
Suppliers of automated assembly systems agree that the more information they have up front, the more accurately they can estimate the cost of a project and the better they can serve their customer, the assembler.