Come with a rough idea of your hours a week on repetitive welding, and you'll leave with the payback worked out on your own numbers. Dave will text you to confirm.
Dave will be in touch before the day to confirm your spot and answer anything you want to ask beforehand.
Thursday 22 October · 12/37 Shipley Dr, Rutherford NSW 2320
Every fabrication shop we talk to around the Hunter has the same two problems: they can't get welders, and the ones they've got are tied up on repetitive work that's costing a fortune in labour. A welding cell doesn't fix your whole shop — it takes one repetitive job off your people and runs it consistently, all day.
No sick days, no annual leave, no chasing overtime to get an order out the door.
We'll run 3mm, 6mm and 10mm plate on the day, plus aluminium — so you see the difference yourself.
A robot cell doesn't remove fume, but it takes the operator out of the plume — a real control, not another mask.
Built in Rutherford. When it needs a hand, we're twenty minutes up the road, not interstate.
That's the complete package, not a starting point for a quote. Refurbished FANUC arm, new Megmeet welding power source, wire feeder and torch — plus the programming, installation and training to get it welding your parts.
Three to four weeks from order.
We've set customers up on lease-to-own before — nine robots to one customer, three years in and running fine — and we can put you in front of a broker who finances refurbished industrial equipment. Not every broker will touch it, which is exactly why it's worth having the introduction.
Say so on the form and we'll have someone ready to talk numbers with you on the day.
Options we'll price for you on the day: extra welding power sources, fume extraction, a physical 7th axis, and a torch cleaning station. Those depend entirely on your parts and your shop, so we'd rather talk them through than publish a number that's wrong for you.
Not a demonstration loop. Real plate, real welds, start to finish — steel at three thicknesses and aluminium alongside it. The 7th axis and torch cleaning station will be operating too.
Jesse will program a job in front of you, so you can judge for yourself how hard it is and how long it takes — the question everyone asks and nobody gets a straight answer to.
Coming up from Melbourne specially. He's the welding expert, not us: power source selection, steel versus aluminium, and where fume extraction is heading now the workplace exposure standard has been cut from 5 mg/m³ to 1.
What it costs, what it doesn't cover, what goes wrong, and what it takes to run one. Bring the awkward questions — that's what the day is for.
One of the refurbished FANUC arms in our Rutherford workshop, torch fitted and mounted to the welding table. Every package starts with an arm from our own stock — this is what one looks like before the welding gear goes on.
We'll be running the welds fabricators actually do — fillet, stitch and butt, steel and aluminium, 3mm through 10mm — and calling out the cycle time on each as it goes. Come with a rough idea of how many hours a week you spend on repetitive welding and what a welder costs you, and Dave will work the payback out with you before you leave. Rough numbers are fine.
Come to whichever suits your day better. Both run about two and a half hours, and there's food at each — we know you're giving up half a day.
We've been in industrial automation for twenty-five years, out of a workshop on Shipley Drive. For the last five we've been building turnkey robot systems — refurbishing arms, building the tooling, writing the programs and installing them. Welding cells, palletising cells, and the fault-finding and service work that keeps them running afterwards.
The reason we can do a complete package at $53,000 is that we hold our own stock of robot arms and rebuild them here, rather than buying new. Everything that wears or touches the weld — the Megmeet Artsen3 400 power source, the wire feeder, the torch — is new.
The workshop on Shipley Drive, where the arms are rebuilt and the cells are built and tested before they go out.
In industrial automation, from the same Hunter workshop
Arms refurbished in our own workshop, not bought new
From most Hunter fabrication shops to our door
From order to a cell welding your parts