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Welding Trailer Components (Manual & Robotic)

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What happens here

Tools and materials

  • Manual Welding Equipment Miller
  • Robotic Welding System (Fronius) Fronius
  • Safety Glasses and Ear Plugs
  • Welding Helmets
  • Shielding Gas Unspecified
  • Welding Wire (Solid Wire) Unspecified

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trailer they're going to do what they're going to marry the box to the frame so right now the box is just sitting on the frame you can tell it's back it's not married Eric my man here is about to jump inside and finish off the inside weld so all the Stitch welds that are done on the on the with the robots on the underside are now done by humans off side Trevor you said it fast a robot does not take anything flavor away they took our jobs is not right because a robot increases productivity so much it means you got toloy 10 more people right every time you put a robot in you got to hire 10 more guys to keep up with it I mean is building trailers day and night well not not in here but it's going to keep going and it's not going to slow down you know you're going to see on the trim line after the paint and after the finishing you got to add another row of people in there just to keep up with what these guys can do add some robots add some guys productivity goes from here to here right for every robot we bought and put in we hired four more people to keep up with the The increased throughput that's coming through the shop now so it's a big misconception it's an old school way of thinking people that think like that are just generally old SCH and they're already behind us so I don't really like I don't mind that's is that you did you just comment they took our jobs the old school [Music] mofo your whole job is quality control uh it's not my entire job uh it's my main focus is quality control making sure all the welds there they're up just back how we want them the gates are fully functional on top of that I helped supervise a crew of 16 guys so there's two of us assisant coaches running in this shop each of us take care of eight guys helping them solve any problems they have while building thank you God I love this shop I don't know why I just love this shop all right guys you're going behind the blue curtain now I can't show you the actual proprietary robot that these guys using because it is the only one in all of North America but I can mount you on the camera of it and show you what it can do so enjoy the [Music] ride [Music] all right you guys probably heard two different sounds to the Weld and this is Brandon he actually heads up the robotic Department what were those two sounds we heard Brandon so that's a proprietary to pronus and what what it's doing is it's doing a Synchro pul so we're running what's called cold metal transfer a p on at the same time…

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