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Integrated Systems: Excellence Through Superior Design, Technology and Innovation
Integrated Systems: Excellence Through Superior Design, Technology and Innovation
Integrated Systems
• Laser Welding • Seam Sealing
• Laser Cutting • Gloveboxes
• Laser Marking • Reflow Soldering
• Micromachining & Bonding
• Resistance Welding
Table of Contents
About AMADA WELD TECH Laser Tube Cutting
Company profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Overview and typical applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Key markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 Laser tube cutting capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
The Customer Journey: Define - Design - Deliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Laser Micromachining
In-house capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9 Overview and typical applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Laser micromachining capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Laser Welding Systems
Overview and typical applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Hermetic Sealing and Glovebox Systems
Laser welding capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Overview and typical applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Hermetic sealing and glovebox capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Laser Marking Systems
Overview and typical applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Additional Systems
Laser marking capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
AMADA WELD
AMADA WELD TECH INC. TECH GmbH
Italy (Turin) AMADA WELD TECH CO., LTD.
USA (Los Angeles)
Japan (Isehara, Tomiya, Noda,
Nagoya, Kanazawa, Osaka)
AMADA WELD TECH INC.
South (Greensboro, NC) AMADA WELD TECH TAIWAN CO., LTD.
AMADA WELD TECH INC. Taiwan (Taipei)
Southwest (San Diego, CA)
AMADA VIETNAM CO., LTD.
Vietnam (Ha Noi)
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Systems | Solutions
Since 1948, Amada Weld Tech has worked to achieve one goal: to solve our customer’s manufacturing challenges. Knowing there is
no one solution that fits all, we strive to provide our customers with innovative and reliable manufacturing technology solutions so that
we may be their single source provider.
Our headquarters is located in Monrovia, California with state-of-the-art facilities for developing, producing and servicing the solutions
offered to our worldwide customer base. A global company, Amada Weld Tech also has sales offices and applications laboratories
located in Detroit, Michigan; El Paso, Texas; and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Company timeline
1948 Unitek Corporation founded in Pasadena, CA to manufacture orthodontic
appliances.
1950 Weldmatic Division organized; produced a complete line of electronically
operated resistance welders for missile, aircraft, electronics, and metal working
industries.
1965 Moved into current Headquarters location in Monrovia, CA.
1971 Unitek Equipment Division established.
1978 Unitek Corporation acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb. Development and patent of
force firing systems critical to small parts welding.
1987 Unitek Corporation acquired by 3M.
1988 Divested from 3M as Unitek Equipment Division of KVA Holdings Corp.
1991 Name changed to Unitek Equipment Inc.
1994 Acquired by Miyachi Technos and reorganized as Unitek Miyachi Corporation
with merger of Miyachi America Company.
1994 Established Integrated Systems division
1995 Acquired Weld-Equip companies in Holland, Germany and France, and Miyachi
Technos Europe in Germany.
1995 Received ISO 9001 Certification.
2000 Acquired Peco Welding Systems, GmbH.
2001 Acquired Benchmark International, Inc.
2005 Renamed Miyachi Unitek Corporation, consolidated Benchmark International to
California.
2008 Reorganized European companies into single entity: Miyachi Europe Corporation.
2010 Opened applications lab in Detroit, MI.
2011 Opened sales office and applications lab in Brazil.
2013 Miyachi Corporation acquired by Amada Co., Ltd.
2014 Renamed Miyachi America Corporation.
2015 Reorganized as Amada Miyachi America, Inc.
2020 Renamed AMADA WELD TECH INC.
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Key Markets
Automotive applications require across- The fine control featured in AMADA WELD Our aerospace manufacturing customers
the-board manufacturing technologies TECH’s resistance and laser welding produce a variety of high technology parts
including resistance and laser welding, technologies is well suited to electronic for aircraft/aircraft engines, guided
projection welding, hermetic sealing, and component manufacturing applications missiles, spacecrafts, propulsion units, and
hot bar reflow soldering. AMADA WELD requiring precision, low heat input, and low more including batteries, sensors, hybrid
TECH’s best in class products provide (or no) force welding solutions. packages displays, and jet engine
process stability with power feedback and honeycomb manufacture and repair.
The high speed, non-contact clean laser
monitoring options, as well as industrially
marking or laser engraving process is well AMADA WELD TECH’s laser welding, laser
proven reliability.
suited to high quality direct part marking on marking, resistance welding, hermetic
Part tracking and traceability has become ever decreasing component sizes. sealing and hot bar reflow soldering
a reality of modern manufacturing. AMADA equipment is uniquely suited to these
Common applications include hard drive
WELD TECH also offers a range of laser applications and has been used in the
read/write armatures, hard disk assemblies,
marking, engraving products, including manufacture of aerospace parts for more
electrical connectors, lead frame
integrated systems, for direct part marking than 60 years. Precision control, closed-
assemblies, relay terminal connections,
with text, graphics, bar codes and data loop feedback, and weld quality tools
batteries, and more.
matrix codes. ensure reliable and durable welds and
Our technologies are used in a wide variety
Batteries marks for these demanding applications.
of automotive applications including sensors, .. and more
switches, dashboard electronics, lighting
components, brake shoes, and more.
Medical
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Systems | Solutions
• Weld most metals • Implantable medical device • Weld metals and plastics, dissimilar • Catheter assembly
• Thermocompression bonding assembly materials and thin foils • Battery manufacture
• Fine wire welding • Battery assembly • Implantable device seam sealing • Automotive sensors and assemblies
• Coil and stud welding • Electronics assembly • Tool assembly
• Sheet metal welding
• Turn-key semiautomated systems • Resistance welding • Marking of metals, plastics, and • Corrosion resistant marking
• Laser welding • Hot bar reflow soldering and ceramics • UDI marking to comply with FDA
• Laser marking bonding • Engrave, ablate, anneal, bleach/foam regulations
• Laser cutting • Hermetic sealing • Cutting or welding of thin metals • Wire stripping
• Laser ablation • Gloveboxes • Direct part marking • Surface cleaning or roughening
• Cut Nitinol, CoCr, stainless steels • Wall thickness up to 0.039 in • Weld Kovar, stainless steel, mild • Controlled atmosphere welding
and polymers (1 mm) steel and more • Transistor outline (TO) packages
• Burr free cuts with femtosecond • Metal and polymer stents • Parallel seam sealing • Rectangular hybrid modules
laser • Cannula and micro cannula • Lid handling, placement, alignment • Gas and pressure sensors
• Tube diameters from 0.01 - 1 in • Needles, biopsy devices and welding • RF and photonic devices
(0.254 - 25.4 mm) • Flexible tubing
• Hot bar reflow soldering • Battery tab to PCB • Weld conductive metals - • Coil and terminal welding
• ACF bonding • Flat panel to PCB up to 0.197 in x 0.197 in (5 mm x • Coated wire welding
• Heat staking • Flexible circuit to PCB 5 mm) area • Thin magnet wires
• Flat panel to LCD • Heat staking plastic on PCB • Weld dissimilar metals • Medical device: endoscope parts,
• Bus bar welding catheter, guide wire, dental pipe
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Define, Design & Deliver | Solutions
At the design
Define
1
phase we work
with customers
Design &
to optimize part
designs and
Process Deliver
material selection
assessment
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for high yield
Sample/
application
2 Installation,
training &
support
qualification
Our field service
engineers install the
Our application system and verify
engineers process functionality with a
parts in our in house factory acceptance
test along with any
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labs to determine
3
the optimal product training needed.
and process settings
Equipment
specification Product
and system
4 Test and
verification
assembly
The system undergoes
The system is tailored to the
rigorous testing, with
customer requirements of
each and every customer
production throughput, A dedicated system engineer oversees invited to our facility
product flow, and quality each project working closely with to oversee the system
based on specific the customer and our experienced acceptance tests
application results technicians to ensure on time delivery
with all needed functionality
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Systems | Solutions
State-of-the-Art Facilities
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In-House Capabilities
1 Safety
Enclosures
Multi-axis 4
Motion
System/Process 5
Monitoring
Custom 3
Tooling
2 Laser/Resistance
Processing
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Systems | Solutions
1 2
Custom Tooling
• Standard or custom • Designed for process and production
• Fully integrated • Manual/pneumatic/servo
Multi-axis Motion
• Linear XYZ • Custom path
• Rotary • Coordinated motion
System/Process Monitoring • Compact work area • Additional axes as required
• Parameter collection • GO/NO GO
Cover Gas 4
1 Beam Delivery - Delivery
Fixed/Flying/
Galvo Scan
Vision Systems/ 5
Teach Mode
Human- 6
Machine
Interface
2 Monitoring
Laser/System
Multi-axis
3
Motion
Systems
Tooling 8 Fiber/nd:yAG 7
TyPICAL APPLICATIOnS
Medical Automotive Battery Electronics/Aerospace
Laser seam welding pacemakers Laser welding device assembly Battery pack manufacture Laser spot welding
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Systems | Solutions
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5 Vision Systems
Teach Mode
• Locates weld location
• Identifies part fit up
issues prior to welding
• Adjusts for
manufacturing
tolerances
• Point and click
positioning
Human-Machine Interface
• Intuitive operations • Simple screen designs
• Allows for part to part
variation • Security operator/enter move • Multi-level passwords
7 Fiber/Nd:YAG 8 Tooling
• Position based firing • Critical to successful
wProprietary process welding
for laser seam • Custom design
welding integrated with
wEven spacing of workstation
pulsed laser even • Collaboration between
around 2D/3D mechanical, electrical,
corners or curves and application
wFastest processing engineer
speeds accounting
for stage motion
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Laser Marking Systems
Desktop System
1 MARKER MOTIOn
4 Integration
TyPICAL APPLICATIOnS
Medical Automotive Aerospace Electronics
Medical tools & instruments Aluminum castings Ablation PTFE Coating/Stainless Steel Bleaching of 14% glass filled nylon
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Systems | Solutions
5 Production 6 Vision
Handling • Optical character
Software recognition
• Serialization via data • Part presence and
base orientation
• Custom strings • Machine path offset
• VDI compliant • Fixture allowance
• Precise mark location
7 Material 8 Material
Handling Handling
• Shuttle moves part into • Multi-station rotary dial
and out of enclosure • 2 station shuttle
• Single and dual • Flow through conveyor
stations
• Reduce cycle time
• Through conveyor
• Process part during
• Robotic load next part load
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Resistance Welding, Bonding and Reflow Soldering Systems
1 Power Supplies
Motion/ 5
Automation/
Tooling
2 Weld Heads
Controls 6
3 Monitoring
4 Vision
Motion Systems 7
Options
TyPICAL APPLICATIOnS
Medical Automotive Battery Electronics
Spot welding pacemaker Projection welding radiator Battery pack assembly Thermocompression bonding coil
connector wire to terminal
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Systems | Solutions
1
Power Supplies
• Energy: 5A-200kA • High/mid frequency
• Built-in process monitoring inverters
• Data export features • Linear DC
• Closed loop control • AC weld controls
• Capacitive discharge
welder
4 Vision 5 Motion/
• Part location & Automation/
orientation
Tooling
• Electrode to part • Multi-axis systems
detection
• Parts handling
• Electrode condition
check • Custom tooling
• Weld quality check • Up to 5 axes of
programmable motion
• Barcode reading
• Stages: 6"–24"
• Dimensional inspection
• Character recognition
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Laser Tube Cutting
Single Screen
1 High Precision Stages 5
User Interface
2 Fiber or
Femtosecond
Laser
Auto Tube
3
Loader
Open 6
Workspace
Engineered 7
Composite Base
4 Easy
Maintenance
Compact Footprint 8
TyPICAL APPLICATIOnS
Medical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Laser cutting cannula tubing Stents Laser cutting flexible tubing Hypo tube
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Systems | Solutions
7 Engineered 8 Compact
Composite Base Footprint
• Superior isolation • System measures:
damping over granite 1956 mm (77") width x
• 3D-load modeling 787 mm (31") depth x
allows design 1524 mm (60") height
optimization
• Integrated water/debris
drains
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Laser Micromachining
Stage and 5
Scan Head
Motion Platforms
1 Vision
Debris 6
Management
Tooling 7
2 Control
Software
3 Laser
Sources
4 Laser
Monitoring
TyPICAL APPLICATIOnS
Medical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Micro coax wire stripping Cannula drilling Thin material machining Catheter drilling
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Systems | Solutions
7 Tooling
• Vacuum chucks
• Custom work holding
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Hermetic Sealing and Glovebox Systems
1 Glove Box
Configurations
2 System Controls 4
Monitoring Welding 5
Power
Supplies
6 Ovens /
Antechambers
TyPICAL APPLICATIOnS
Laser seam welding pacemakers Projection welding small TO devices Resistance welding seam seal Laser seam sealing
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Systems | Solutions
Glovebox Configurations
• 2 and 4 glove sizes (std) • Aluminum or steel base
• Custom configurations • Add-on extensions for
• Eye-safe laser front glass storage or part preparation
available • Stainless steel chamber
2 Monitoring 3 Software
• Moisture monitor • High/Low setting for
• Helium sensor sensors
• Oxygen sensor • Error messages
• All glovebox data saved • Weld interlock for
every 5 secs environment outside of
limits
• Settable sensor limits
• Exportable data
• Batch/lot reports
4 Controls
5 Welding Power
• Computer controlled
• PLC controlled Supplies
• Seam sealers
• Manually controlled
• Fiber lasers
• Custom software
• Nd:YAG lasers
• Glovebox
communicates with: • 25Khz high frequency
Inverter
wLaser
• Pulsar Series (CD
wSealer
projection welders)
wProjection welder
w1K, 2K, 6K, 9K, joules
6 Ovens/
7 Gas Purification
Antechambers • Single column
• Wall heated
• Dual column
• Heated shelves (2-3
level) • Automated column
change over
• Interlocks
• Enables glovebox
• Optional to reach ≤1 ppm of
wSliding shelves moisture and oxygen
wExtra long ovens
wRear loading
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Systems | Solutions
Additional Systems
Conveyor Fed Laser Welding Systems
Robotic Welding
Systems
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Systems | Solutions
Mini Atmospheric
Chamber Laser Welding
5 Axis Laser
Welding
Workstation
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your Global Partner
AMADA WELD
AMADA WELD TECH INC. TECH GmbH
Italy (Turin) AMADA WELD TECH CO., LTD.
USA (Los Angeles)
Japan (Isehara, Tomiya, Noda,
Nagoya, Kanazawa, Osaka)
AMADA WELD TECH INC.
South (Greensboro, NC) AMADA WELD TECH TAIWAN CO., LTD.
AMADA WELD TECH INC. Taiwan (Taipei)
Southwest (San Diego, CA)
AMADA VIETNAM CO., LTD.
Vietnam (Ha Noi)
USA
1820 S. Myrtle Ave. • Monrovia, CA 91016 US
T: (626) 303-5676
info@amadaweldtech.com • www.amadaweldtech.com
ISO 9001 Certified Company • 24/7 Repair Service: 1-866-751-7378
mxsales@amadaweldtech.com zqzhang@amadaweldtech.com.cn The material contained herein cannot be reproduced or used in any other way without the
express written permission of AMADA WELD TECH INC. All rights reserved.
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