Automation can change a business, create new opportunities, and foster growth. However, sometimes the path to automation can be overwhelming. It is important to stay true to the fundamentals. In this post, our guest writer, Jordan, explains two key steps to getting started on the journey to welding automation. Read more below. 

Automated systems and solutions have been rapidly changing the manufacturing world around us. Continue reading more below to explore some of the ways automation, and welding automation specifically, are changing the workplace.

Sections: 

• Headcount: Impact on Organizations and Workforces
• Data: Performance Monitoring Solution
• Repeatability: Demand for Increased Quality Upstream
• Differentiation: Opportunity to Standout in a Crowded Space

IRCO Automation delivers a 12,000 lb capacity 3-axis smart weld positioner. Integrated with smart positioning technology, this model is a stepping stone from manual, traditional positioners to robotics.

IRCO Automation, an Ontario-based business, has been selected by BAE Systems to design, fabricate and install a complete line of mechanized welding and positioning systems to help make submarine missile tubes for the United States Navy’s Virginia class submarines, the new backbone of the United States submarine force.

Video now available! Watch our Youtube video below to learn more about this custom designed Robotic Beam Welding System!

IRCO Automation is the designer and manufacturer of the SSC’s Automatic Panel Welder and the Hull Assembly Line (HAL) trolley system, installed at Textron Systems’ New Orleans Shipyard. In a second project phase, IRCO recently delivered three gantries, each with separate functions including marking, cutting, tacking and finish weld procedures. The three gantries were integrated with the customized trolley system to enable the transfer of the assembled craft through the production line.

Weld Fit-up System - 700,000 lb Vessel  

IRCO Automation recently delivered a custom-built fit-up system for welding 700,000 lb vessels. To learn more about this system, please read the blog posting below!

News: IRCO Automation Delivers Custom Heavy Weld Positioner for Brazilian Army

IRCO has partnered with BAE Systems to design, engineer, and manufacture a new 24,000 lb, P3X Heavy Weld Positioner for the BAE M113 APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) upgrade & refurbishment project in Curitiba, Brazil. 

Scroll down to learn more about this custom heavy weld positioner.  

IRCO Automation Designs & Builds Robotic Beam Roll-Over & Welding Cell

IRCO Automation™'s most recent integration of robotics and weld automation resulted in the development of a custom designed Robotic Beam Welder solution. Designed, engineered and manufactured by IRCO, it was commissioned for a client in the oil and gas industry.

Cantilevered Turning Rolls for Welding Boilers

IRCO recently delivered a set of Cantilevered Turning Rolls for a manufacturer of boilers and small pressure vessels. The paired set is capable of turning up to 70,000 lb and is specifically designed to rotate boilers during the welding of end-caps.