On February 07, 2023, JR Automation, an industrial machinery manufacturing company, launched FlexChassis™, a modular automation platform, to expand its turnkey solutions for manufacturers. This new platform will reduce the up-front conception, design, and build time and increase flexibility for high-speed, high-volume assembly.
It has standardized, pre-designed modules to cater to the manufacturing objectives of process and assembly applications. It has the capability to work for multiple industries like electronics manufacturing, consumer goods, and medical, enabling businesses to grow into full production systems and offering different configuration choices for customers. It can adapt to many platforms like benchtop, power, free, indexing, and continuous motion with multiple prime movers, process monitoring, and full digital control. Through the human-machine interface, its linear motors enhance accuracy, speed, and operational flexibility with multiple configurations.
Its assembly capabilities include joining dissimilar materials, heat sealing, decorating, UV gluing, gluing, snap fitting, screwing, riveting, and ultrasonic welding, whereas material joining capabilities are die cutting, ultrasonic cutting, laser ablation, laser tracking, and heat foil sealing. It fulfills the specific production needs of UL, CE, FAD, and GAMP5, as well as the manufacturing needs of various ISO classes.
Business Development Manager, JR Automation, Greg Herman, said, "We recognized a market need for an automation platform that allowed for high flexibility without requiring a significant amount of upfront engineering, lowering cost, minimizing risk, and shortening delivery."
(Source – Cision PR Newswire)
Medical Market Chief Engineer, JR Automation, Mick Trompen, said, "FlexChassis was engineered from the ground up, taking into consideration the needs of our medical customers while offering the flexibility our customers expect."
(Source – Cision PR Newswire)
About JR Automation
JR Automation, one of the leading automated manufacturing and technology solutions providers, has been solving key operational and productivity challenges in multiple industries like life sciences, aerospace, and automotive worldwide since 1980. Headquartered in Holland, Michigan, it has employed over 2,000 people at 27 manufacturing facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia, connecting physical and cyberspace for industrial manufacturers and distributors through a single-source solution. Its unwavering commitment to customers, employees, and the community through technological innovations has resulted in strategic growth and expansion.