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Defense & Ammunition
JR Automation uses lean manufacturing practices to facilitate quick changeover between calibers, helping you respond to your customer’s changing requirements. Our automation equipment solutions are the only systems using computer technology and servo actuated presses in this industry.
JR Automation’s Expertise
We work with some of the largest names in the defense industry. JR Automation uses our diverse experience across various sectors to improve the defense and ammunition manufacturing industries. Our customers use our equipment to produce radar and weapon systems to ammunition and beyond.
What is Automation in the Defense & Ammunition Industry?
Automation in the defense industry includes using advanced technology to assemble aircraft components, weaponry or ammunition at typically higher speeds and higher quality than manual labor alone. Defense and ammunition automation solutions can include robotics, vision, conveyance, gantry systems, and more. Automated technologies can ensure that parts meet strict quality and repeatability standards.
Benefits of Automation in Defense & Ammunition
Many of today’s ammunition and defense factories operate on the principles of traditional mass-production techniques developed in the early 1900s. To maximize efficiencies, manufacturers group machines in joint departments, turn them up to run as fast as possible and use large inventories to buffer inconsistencies. Traditional machines are challenging to set up and adjust, and manufacturers need specialized technicians to make changeovers, sometimes taking several days. Lastly, today’s ammunition plants are loud, and earplugs are required everywhere on the plant floor. With automated production lines, manufacturers can improve their production speed, quality, and flexibility. Automated cells also improve worker safety through quieter cells.
Improved Quality
We designed our systems and our cells for quality monitoring using statistical process control (SPC) sampling plans at an inspection table. Adjustments are easier with linear servo actuators. When a machine requires an adjustment, the operator enters an offset on the touch screen and adjusts the dimension without stopping the machine. Capabilities of Six Sigma or better are easy with this servo actuated technology.
Flexibility
JR Automation designs each machine with versatility and flexibility in mind. We have incorporated quick-change concepts, similar to the early days of automotive manufacturing. Each machine is capable of changing from one caliber to another in 30 minutes or less.
Reduced Labor Needs
Labor content is low in our advanced cells and systems. We design our solutions to keep operators safe and oversight limited. Overhead support for our ammunition manufacturing cells is significantly less than traditional manufacturing layouts.
Ammunition Automation
JR Automation has experience automating most aspects of ammunition manufacturing from small caliber (7.62 to 50 cal) to medium caliber (20mm to 50mm) for large-scale manufacturing. Our experience includes:
- Brass Case Forming
- Annealing
- Wash/Polishing
- Priming
- Loading
- Case Crimp
- Waterproofing
- Inspecting
Capabilities
Automated Production Plans Optimize Operator Time and Product Material Usage
A JR Automation customer had a problem—their CNC mill could only run product in batches, and to change batch size, numerous operators had to manually adjust the product fixtures. Additionally, production planning had to be manually entered into an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The process was inefficient, hard to optimize, and decreased product throughput.
Technical Capabilities Involed:
- software data integration
Innovation that accelerates growth.
We design and build innovative manufacturing solutions for leading OEM and Tier 1 and 2 companies in the commercial aerospace and defense markets. With secure facilities and network systems around the globe, a focus on leading-edge thinking and on-time delivery, we are your trusted partner for avionics and military manufacturing projects.
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Advanced Applications
Designing the future
Our Advanced Applications team works to make the previously impossible, possible. Whether exploring blue-sky concepts or collaborating with customers to identify new approaches to complex challenges, the R&D efforts of our Advanced Applications Lab have produced breakthrough solutions in welding, dispensing, vision systems, robotics, and more. From feasibility testing and proof of concept to process and prototype development, we have the team, the skills, and the experience to take your far-out vision and make it reality.
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Project Management
Delivering results
Our Project Execution Process (PEP) uses a proprietary phase gate approach to managing and delivering automation solutions. This advanced methodology keeps our global teams in sync, improves project planning, enables effective scaling, and ensures we're always learning and improving from our experience. Applied alongside our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) System, this process facilitates effective collaboration and keeps cross-functional product development data unified and integrated into downstream manufacturing systems. Bottom line: we have the people, processes, and systems in place to deliver excellence—every time.
The JR Automation Process
The JR Automation Process
Certified excellence
ITAR certified facility
RIA certified robot integrator
Authorized FANUC system integrator
Authorized ABB robotics integrator
Yaskawa Premier Partner
Qmed Qualified Supplier
ISO 9001:2015 registered
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Robyn and her team lean into challenges
I’m inspired every day by my teammates and the way they lean into challenges. I think it’s one of the key reasons our customers like working with us, and what keeps them coming back. Customers know they can count on us as a manufacturing partner who won't give up and always has their best interests at heart.
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JR Automation partners with the world's leading manufacturers to design, build, and integrate custom automation solutions. Time and again, we've proven that hard work and creativity can uncover opportunities others never thought possible.
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