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Automated Bander Controls Upgrade

By Adam Nelson

Impetus to Invent Imagine having a highly skilled, awesome workforce, but some of your best people have to stand there and flip a switch to reverse the direction of your tape machine, over and over again. Something had to be done. By implementing an adjustable top and bottom stroke sensor and an easy-to-use HMI screen … Continued

Measurment System Controls Upgrade

By Adam Nelson

Impetus to Invent It can take hundreds of commutator bars to make up one large DC motor. If each one is not exactly the right size, the tolerance stack-up can get out of control, causing the commutator to be too large or too small. The customer needed to upgrade their existing system to: 1) work … Continued

Large Thermoformed Machine Vision System

By Adam Nelson

Impetus to Invent What do you do when you have large thermoformed parts with cutouts where the cutout removal remnant is missed? We think you should call Invent Automation to make you a machine vision system like this custom beauty that makes it easy and automatic to identify those pesky remnants. Here, we also implemented … Continued

Multipart Sophisticated Tiny Press

By Adam Nelson

Impetus to Invent Small work cells, small machines, BIG results. When you combine sensors, PLCs, poke-yoke principles, and a safety shield, you get the job done. When you do all of this in such a tiny footprint, you get it done in a BIG way. This customer puts a premium on space and demands their … Continued

Small Pin and Cap Assembly Station

By Adam Nelson

Impetus to Invent Our customer loves their work cells, and we love the work cells because they require many small machines that we can turn around quickly. In this case, the operator had to load the part, place a few assembly parts into pockets that held them just right, insert a spring, and then press … Continued

Worlds Fastest Face Shield Automation

By Adam Nelson

Impetus to Invent During COVID, Invent Automation stepped up to the challenge and created the world’s fastest, fully automated face shield machine. Creating one face shield every 1.8 seconds meant a lot of firsts in the industry. While many companies were experimenting with 3D printing and relying on labor-intensive solutions, Invent Automation made it possible … Continued

Component Insertion Press

By Adam Nelson

Impetus to Invent The customer had a requirement for a small tabletop press that would ensure parts were present before testing. Additionally, they did not want to have a door come down to create a safe press condition but still wanted it to be safe for the operator. Invent Automation rose to the challenge and … Continued

Automated Cone Making for Vodka

By Adam Nelson

Impetus to Invent It’s staggering how much vodka Americans drink, and nobody makes more vodka than this customer. As a way to keep their branding on point a “neck hanger” paper cone is placed on each 1L bottle of vodka. This way, their marketing materials can change without having to relabel the product on the … Continued

Automated Carpet Wrapping Machine

By Adam Nelson

Impetus to Invent Labor being what it is nowadays has customers thinking more and more about how to automate. The more mundane the task, the more challenging the role to fill. Invent Automation invented a solution for a client to wrap carpet around a piece of wood. This wrapped wood is used in cat furniture … Continued

Automatic Leak and Flow Test Stands

By Adam Nelson

Impetus to Invent Chocolate and peanut butter. Leak and flow testing. What makes these combinations so perfect? We don’t know, but when Invent Automation does it, you know you have perfection. When one of our favorite customers got another automotive solenoid project, they knew who to call for some premium test stands. It was critical … Continued

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