Today’s automobiles contain dozens of electric motors. They adjust the mirrors, position the seats, aim the headlights, provide heating and cooling, and raise and lower the windows. In fact, a luxury car might have as many as 120 electric motors of various sizes.

Mechanical probe and vision systems ensure quality assemblies.

SCARAs perform pick-and-place and other operations.

Midwestern automotive supplier uses servo-driven presses to install sleeves, bearings and plugs in transmissions on an automated assembly line. Precision and data collection are key benefits of the system.

Vision-guided SCARA robot picks and places delicate ceramic parts.

 Sensors verify that the rings have been installed correctly. 

Plastic squeeze bottles for water or Gatorade are ubiquitous at sporting events around the world. Hundreds of millions of them are produced annually.

Manufacturing engineers have two options for obtaining an automated assembly system. They can get each component—an automatic screwdriver, a rotary indexing dial, a gripper—from individual suppliers and integrate the parts themselves. Or, they can ask one supplier to deliver a turnkey machine.