CASE STUDY Oil and Gas Company INDUSTRY APPLICATION LOCATION CUSTOMER SINCE Oil & Gas T ooling & Fixtures Calgary, Alberta 2018The Challenge The manufacturing technology group at a Canadian integrated energy services company needed to create an automated handling machine to load large glass reinforcement tape pads. This was required to significantly decrease changeover time and increase plant throughput. The tape pads weighed anywhere between 115lbs to 230lbs, and were too heavy for a person to handle. The ‘pad handling’ machine would sit over tape pad pay-off stations on the pipe reinforcement machine, with four end effectors to pick up reinforcement tape pads and place them on controlled pay-off hubs across four quadrants. The cost needed to make the custom parts for the machine w

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