Minnesota manufacturer takes fixtures out of robotic welding

www.thefabricator.com: Door Engineering, a manufacturer of custom-engineered doors for commercial, industrial, and aviation, has a technologically diverse welding department. Visit the plant floor in Mankato, Minn., and you’ll see some manual, out-of-position gas metal arc welding, with skilled welders completing challenging joints on complicated workpieces. You’ll see operators training and managing cobot welding cells. They place a piece in the cell, adapt an existing program via a tablet interface, then initiate the weld.