SERVO-ROBOT Group is a company that develops and creates intelligent sensing and digital vision systems to simplify manufacturing process automation such as welding. Therefore, the main activity is to build intelligent sensing systems based on precision measurement with laser beams and other intelligent sensing devices applicable to various industries such as automotive, railroad, pipe and tube, aerospace, shipbuilding, fabricated structures, windmill towers manufacturing, etc.
Founded in 1983, SERVO-ROBOT has established its world headquarters, production plant and research and development center in the St-Bruno Industrial Park, south of
Montreal
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, Quebec, Canada. More than 95% of SERVO-ROBOT's products are exported outside of Canada every year.
Applications
Innovations developed in patents mentioned in the above section resulted in concrete solutions easily applicable to markets ranging from automotive to aerospace which has helped many companies and factories to become more productive and reach their Six Sigma constant improvements goals.
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! Aircraft & Aerospace
! Automotive
! Construction
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, Welding automation:
- Jet engine exhaust turbine blades
- Turbo prop engine casing
Robotic measurement of wings for machining operation
, Robotic joining of body components
Inspection:
- Suspension member
- Frame assembly, chassis
- Laser-brazed roof-pillar junction
LWB applications
Tracking for complex 3D weld seam
Blank palletizing/ de-palletizing
, Welding automation:
- Pipe steel structural components
- Bridge structural components
- Aluminum concrete form
Inspection of offshore oil-ring platform
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! Earth Moving Equipment
! Railroad
! Shipbuilding
[''Building a Better Submarines in Less Time'', U.S. Navy by Mary Ruth Johnsen, ''The Welding Journal'',May 2002 http://www.aws.org/w/a/wj/2002/05/feature1/index.html]
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, Welding automation:
- Heavy machinery weldments
On-Site quality control of weld bead geometry and dimensions
, Welding automation:
- Wagon bogie
- Aluminum passenger cars
- Panel lines
, Welding automation:
- Ship Stiffeners
- Submarines
- Panel lines
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! Tank & Vessel
! Tube & Pipe
! Windmill Tower
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, Welding automation:
- Water heater tanks
- Aluminum fuel tanks
- Stainless steel tanks
Inspection of leak sensitive gas tanks
Pressure Vessels
, Welding automation:
- U-O pipe
- Spiral pipe
- High-speed pipeline welding machines
Quality control of weld beads
Tracking for ultrasonic testing
Pipe diameter measurement
, Roll formed tube longitudinal weld seam tracking
Outside circumferential weld seam tracking and adaptive control
Inside circumferential weld seam tracking and adaptive control
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Notes
References
SERVO-ROBOT Group general web site
External links
Robotic Industry Associatio
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Manufacturing Tal
Manufacturing companies of Canada