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Companies on the leading edge use intelligent machines to augment human labor and manufacturing operations, providing greater control and always-online production. Partner with us to reimagine your manufacturing environment, build advanced systems, maximize throughput, reduce waste, and increase precision in your business’s factory automation solutions. Create a plan for your business that will allow for cost savings in the long term while keeping you up to date on the ever-changing world of automation in the short term.
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Core competencies of our manufacturing automation solutions
- Resistance and laser welding
- Soldering and brazing
- Orbit forming
- Crimping and swaging
- Ultrasonic and RF Welding
- Laser mask welding
- Heat stake
- One and two part adhesives
- UV, visible light and thermal curing
- Pick and place automation
- Vision guided precision servo placement to sub-micron resolution
- Industrial robot integration for flexible, multi-axis problems
- Precision dispensing
- Positive displacement pumps for repeatable dispensing of gels and precise volumetric dispensing of liquids
- Micro solenoid valves for high precision dispensing
- Ink jets for precise volumes
- Coordinated dispensing
- PC control in C# or C++
- PLC control in all common industrial platforms
- GUI and SCADA development
- Factory host or MES/ERP communication interface over any protocol
- Material handling
- Power & free linear transfer systems
- Aspetic environmental control
- Inert environmental control
- Special temperature environmental control
- ESD control
- Etching and cleaning systems
- CMP
- Drying processes
- Belt, ball screw and linear motor motion stages
- Servo and stepper motors
- Rolling contact and air bearing stages
- Stand-alone controls to fully integrated, multi-axis motion controllers
- Vision guided motion
- Inspection of post placement accuracy
- Visible and IR
- Resolutions to sub-micron
- Optical power measurement for photonics products
- Vision inspection
- Electric & magnetic testing
- Voltage, current, hi-pot, magnetic flux, frequency
- Pressure decay leak testing
- Vacuum/trace gas detection
- Mass flow leak testing
- Industrial robot work cell
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Drive efficiency in your automated manufacturing automation processes
The Fresh engineering team has the industry experience and cross-disciplinary technical background to create any solution you require.
Increase productivity: Increase throughput, decrease cycle times, reduce labor content, maximize utilization
Improve quality: Improve consistency, increase control, increase accuracy, drive continuous improvement
Reduce waste: Decrease mistakes, increase product precision, promote 100% inspection, streamline process flows
Delivering value tailored to an individual client’s needs, we help organizations keep up with the demands of the modern world and a rapidly evolving industry landscape.
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A multi-disciplinary, end-to-end team
Customized Systems: Guided by a technology-agnostic approach, we partner with a wide array of other robotics and technology providers to build your customized system.
Scope & Reach: We have experience deploying systems overseas in countries like Taiwan, China, Indonesia, and Mexico. Our scalable workflows and partnerships allow us to handle projects of varying scopes.
Guaranteed ROI: The Fresh manufacturing automation team is made up of engineering and business experts who focus on understanding the challenges and requirements of each project. We follow a vetted consulting process to meet your technical and financial objectives.
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Manufacturing automation partners for system scalability and innovation
Investing in change is risky without a solid understanding of the market and an iterative approach to innovation. Fresh views client engagements as ongoing strategic partnerships where, long after a solution is implemented, we continue helping companies mitigate risk and maximize opportunity.
- Align cross-functional teams to solve complex manufacturing problems
- Explore and validate your strategy with rapid prototyping and testing
- Reassess your approach as insights about the future of Industry 4.0 continue to emerge, with a strategic partner who can help you innovate and adapt
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Intelligent, predictive manufacturing solutions
Based on where we’ve invested, we’re well-positioned to take advantage of the revolution in manufacturing IoT: integrating systems intelligently, using machine learning and AI to create predictive machines, and incorporating the power of the Cloud to gather real-time data.
Our proven manufacturing automation process
Explore our approach to creating autonomous systems and machines that augment operations and workflows. We automate across a variety of use cases allowing your business to increase efficiency, maintain control, maximize throughput, and increase precision.
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Related hardware capabilities
Explore our other engineering services, which allow our team to solve challenges for your organization and others, regardless of size, industry vertical, or product category.