Custom Shingle Tab Removal Machine.

North America's largest manufacturer of residential roofing required a reliable custom high speed mechanical type press for a special application. The application required a custom press design with 3 tons of force over 4" of stroke. The drive needed to be a direct flywheel drive with a combination air clutch brake to deliver the speed and flywheel energy for the application. The machine would remove a pre-scored tab on a 4" stack of roofing shingles.

• 3 Tonnage Press
• 4" Stroke
• 4" Square Tubing Frame Construction
• 3 HP Design D AC gear motor
• Pneumatic Combination Air Clutch Brake
• SOV Safety Locking Access Interlock
• Dual Palm Anti-Tie Down Start Palm Buttons
• Crankshaft Motion
• Hardened Chrome Plated Guides with Wipers
• Easy Accessible Grease Points
• Cam Jog Button & Home Position Indicator Light
• Nema 12 Enclosure Mounted on Press
• Custom Powder Coat Finish

Fully-Automated Medical Web Thermal Welding System.

• Precision High Speed Part Indexing
• Precision Independent Web Payout
• Very Low Tension Capability
• Closed Looped Indexing
• Pressure Sensors
• Easily Replaceable Slide Track
• Flexible Design for Multiple Products
• Safety Door Interlocks
• 2" Square Tubing Frame Construction
• Fully Customizable 10" Color Touch Screen Panel
• Custom Powder Coat Finish
• 110VAC

WTS300 Turnkey Wafer Transfer System.

The customer needed a precise turnkey silicone wafer transfer system to replace the manual transfer of the silicon wafers between various containers. The system needed to be portable and flexible.

The provided turnkey system increased production quantities while eliminating broken wafers from the manual process.

• Intelligent Transfer Features Including:
  • Auto Wafer Skipping of Empty Slots
  • Wafer Transfer Complete Detection
  • Container Type Presence Detection
• Intelligent Transfer Regardless of Container Qty
• Bi-Directional Transferring
• Multiple Sized Containers
• Precision Elevator Stepper Motors
• Adjustable Transfer Conveyor Speed
• Multiple Emergency Palm Buttons
• Fully Customizable 8" Color Touch Screen Interface
• Process Light Alarm
• 110vac Only Required
• Swivel Leveling Feet
• Nema 4X Enclosure Mounted System
• Custom Powder Coat Finish

Automated Drilling System.

One of the world's largest manufacturers of homecare and extended care products needed a system to increase the production of wheelchair side frames. The current process included multiple unreliable drilling fixtures requiring excess operator hours and manually installing tube bushings. The system needed to increase their throughput by at least 25%.

QED Automation LLC provided a reliable drilling machine with auto bushing installation. The system incorporated all of the existing drilling fixtures into one machine with changeover times of less than 2 minutes for each frame. The system also included sensors for verification of correct drilling and bushing installation. Throughput was increase by over 40% from current production rates and reduced scrap by 35%.

• Automated Bushing Installation & Drilling
• 3 Sugino Drill Heads with Speed/Feed Control
• Process Multiple Parts w/Quick Changeover
• Bushing Press Verification Sensors
• Part Drill Verification
• Auto-feed Rivet Gun
• Easy Access Auto Slide-Out Loading Table
• Manual Jog Functions w/Maintenance Keyed Lockout
• Safety Door Interlocks
• 2" Square Tubing Frame Construction
• Nema 4X Enclosure
• Custom Powder Coat Finish
• Electrical Schematics, Pneumatic Schematics & PLC Logic (with comments) provided with system

Wheel Chair Fatigue Test Machine.

One of the world's largest manufacturers of homecare and extended care products needed a reliable method of fatigue testing production and prototype wheel chairs per FDA requirements. The test machine needed to have independently driven rollers. Each roller must be able to easily adjust while minimizing the amount of belt re-tensioning. The system must also be able to automatically switch from motor driven rollers to free wheeling rollers without any machine changes.

QED Automation LLC provided a test machine accomplishing all of the required tasks. The provided machine contained a new drive system design that allowed the precise individual positioning of each roller. The intricate chain layout allowed each roller to be adjusted over 30" of travel without the need of any drive tensioning changes. Safety light curtains where utilized to ensure operator safety. The new machine reduced the operator change over time from over 2 hours to less than 15 minutes.

• Full Perimeter Safety Light Curtain
• Independently Adjustable Dyno Rollers (over 30" adjustment with no re-tensioning needed)
• 3HP Drive Motor with Auto/Lockout "Freewheel" Feature
• Hardened Chrome Plated Linear Guides
• Quick Adjustment Rear Hold Down Anchor Arms
• Low Loading Height
• 2" Square Tubing Frame Construction
• Easy Accessible Grease Points
• Floor Mounted Operator Control Panel
• Custom Powder Coat Finish
• Electrical Schematics, Pneumatic Schematics & PLC Logic (with comments) provided with system

Semi-Automated Induction Heating System.

A global leading pump manufacturer needed to update their current assembly process from convection heating to induction heating, increasing throughput and reducing costs.

Working directly with a leading induction heating company, QED Automation LLC provided a turnkey 40KW unit in less than 6 weeks.

• 40KW Induction Heater with Ceramic Coils
• Dual Heating Stations
• Intelligent Loading Logic (no start buttons to push)
• Internal Cooling Water System
• Safety Loading Light Curtains
• Manual Jog Functions w/Maintenance Keyed Lockout
• Safety Door Interlock
• Safety Enclosure Guarding
• Nema 12 Enclosure
• Custom Powder Coat Finish

High Speed Reel to Reel Web Processing system.

A leading medical company needed a high speed web processing system to validate a new process. The unit had to include precision variable speed changes while the system is running and a manual way to load and unload the reels while maintaining a precision fit and reel location.

The size had to be small to fit into an existing vacuum hood.

• High Speed Web Processing
• Precision Web Speed Control
• Manual "Click-N-Lock" Reel Loading
• Handheld Control
• Compact Bench-top Design
• Multiple Sized Reel Cores
• Manual Jog Functions
• Custom Powder Coat Finish