JR Automation products

The average airplane utilizes 25,000 nutplates – all installed by hand. The patent-pending SmartAttach® Automated Nutplate Installation System eliminates the need for manual alignments, multiple tools, and procedures required by conventional nutplate attachment methods. The SmartAttach® Automated Nutplate Installation System integrates centering, drilling, lubrication, countersinking, and riveting operations in a single machine. You can cut nutplate attachment times by at least 60%. You’ll greatly improve precision and repeatability for rivet and center holes. It also brings you IoT capabilities for intelligent monitoring and process management.

The automotive industry is in dire need of workers. To meet demand in a labor shortage, OEMs and Tier 1 manufacturers turn to robotics and vision for automated assembly lines that protect human employees from hazardous conditions while completing tasks quickly. JR Automation has the experience and expertise to deliver automated and manual assembly systems for subassembly and final assembly operations. We can help you plan and install conveyance, operator-assisted tooling, material handling systems, or fully robotic systems to achieve your assembly challenges.

Automated production lines present many challenges for operations, engineering, quality and maintenance as a result of their typically hybrid manual and automated processes. Combine these processes with mixed or batch production and often complex material flow, the following challenges can occur: Scheduling, Sequencing, Material tracking, Ensuring first-time quality builds, Performance analysis, Data collection, Comprehensive challenges require comprehensive solutions.

Manufacturing production cells are most often physically isolated groupings of automation into which components are fed, and completed assemblies are fed from. Infeed components to cells can come from automated sources as well as manual operators. As a result of the isolated design of production cells - combined with often complex production mixes and material flow - operation, engineering and maintenance are faced with the unending need to understand OEE, quality/scrap output, pending equipment failures require planned downtime to remediate and throughput. Over the past four decades, customers have trusted JR Automation to mesh together their complex production systems. The resulting front row seat to the evolution of cellular manufacturing compelled us to invest in the technologies our valued customers need for performance improvement.