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With over a thousand completed jobs since june of 2000 True North has a wide base of experience with many different customers.
Our customers come from a variety of industries. Injection molding, packaging, medical, lighting, metal forming, tire processing, roll forming equipment, among others. Below are a few examples of projects that showcase our unique abilities.
Example 1
CNC Tube bending machine
This was a custom designed high-speed tube bending machine which was designed to handle a variety of part shapes with a low cycle time.
Example 2
High speed custom laser separation machine
This was a custom designed high-speed tube bending machine which was designed to handle a variety of part shapes with a low cycle time.
Example 3
Insert molding application
The machine was designed and built to bowl feed two knurled pins in the correct orientation and then using a robot it loaded the pins into an injection mold.
Example 3
Insert molding application
The machine was designed and built to bowl feed two knurled pins in the correct orientation and then using a robot it loaded the pins into an injection mold.
Example 4
A machine was designed for a local tire producer to aid in the removal of the rubber vents that are produced when a tire has been produced in a tire retreading process. The tire was loaded by an operator and the machine spins the tire and automatically removes the vents.
Example 4
A machine was designed for a local tire producer to aid in the removal of the rubber vents that are produced when a tire has been produced in a tire retreading process. The tire was loaded by an operator and the machine spins the tire and automatically removes the vents.
Example 5
In this application, the injection molding customer had a very critical de-gating application where the gate needed to be trimmed as close to flush as possible. True North designed and built a machine which incorporated an off-the-shelf laser to cut the runner from the parts allowing for a perfectly flush cut.
Example 6
True North designed a large tube processing machine which took 20’ bar lengths of tubes and removed one tube at a time where it cut the tubes to length with a laser and added detail to the tube. Cycle time was less than 3 seconds from part to part.
Example 7
Injection Molding: EOATS and mold tending
True north provides customers with high quality and very precise Robotic End of Arm Tools (EOATs). At True North, we use designs that employ high quality 3D printed parts along with other technologies for quick turn around and high accuracy.
Example 7
Injection Molding: EOATS and mold tending
True north provides customers with high quality and very precise Robotic End of Arm Tools (EOATs). At True North, we use designs that employ high quality 3D printed parts along with other technologies for quick turn around and high accuracy. True North also has experience producing mold tending stations, often dealing with adding inserts to molds, or automating parts of the molding process.
Example 8
Our customer hired us to design a machine that they intended to sell as an add-on machine to existing roll forming machines. True North worked with our customer to design the initial machine and continue to maintain the design as revisions and improvements occur. The machine is considered a product for our customer and True North helps to manage the design for them.
Example 8
Our customer hired us to design a machine that they intended to sell as an add-on machine to existing roll forming machines. True North worked with our customer to design the initial machine and continue to maintain the design as revisions and improvements occur. The machine is considered a product for our customer and True North helps to manage the design for them.
Example 9
This machine which was built by True North was used to test the force required to break a molded chair base to verify parts were free from defects. It utilized hydraulics and very accurate load cell as well linear transducers to create force/distance curves for each part being tested.
Example 10
This large machine was built by True North and presented die cast inserts in the proper orientation so that the mold tending robot could pick them with EOAT’s and load them into a large 1100 molding machine. An accumulation conveyor allowed for operators to pre-load inserts.
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