ARD Industries: Equipment

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Equipment at ARD Industries

Our facility includes nine (9) Friction Welders, CNC Lathes/Machining Centers, Multi-Station Lean Automation, conventional Turning, Milling, Drilling and post weld Induction Stress Relieving. We are currently cutting round bars, tubes, flat bar and extruded shapes with our two fully automatic bandsaws from Kasto and Hyd-Mech. All served by our fully equipped toolroom and maintenance department.

Friction Welder Model No.	6SE	15SE	45SE	90SE	T80
Max. Weld Area (sq.in.)	0.6	1.5	4.5	11.0 (14.0 Tubular)	9.5
Drive Motor Speed (hp)	10 AC	20 DC	40/50 DC	100 DC	125 DC
Spindle Speed (rpm)	1,000-3,000	500-2,000	360-1,100	200-600	150-540
ROD CAPACITY: Min. Diameter (Inches) Max. Diameter (Inches)	0.32 0.90	0.60 1.37	0.90 2.25	1.75 3.75	1.50 3.50
TUBE CAPACITY: Max. Diameter (Inches)	1.25	2.50	4.00	8.00	10.00
FORGE FORCE: Min. (ton) Max. (ton)	1.2 6.0	1.6 20.0	5.0 45.0	20.0 115.0	15.0 88.0
Spindle Capacity	---	---	13" to Chuck Face x 3.00"	22" to Chuck Face x 4.75" 40" to Chuck Face x3.5"	22" to Chuck Face x7.00"

All our friction welders have been retrofitted to add the capability of recording full weld data throughout the weld cycle. This allows for data collection, setup, archiving, retrieval and plotting. All friction welders have an upgraded Allen Bradley PLC based microprocessor controller along with state of the art weld monitoring capability for weld process quality assurance. We have also installed new state of the art drives on over half our friction welders including some with orientation.

ARD Welder Interface

HMI (Human Interface Device)

ARD Welder Parameters

Weld Process Monitors

ARD WPD Graph

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A.R.D.’s operator interface provides the HMI (Human Machine Interface) required to set-up and operate the friction welder. The operator interface uses a standard windows based computer with full colour LCD display, an internal hard disk and CD-Rom drives for data archive and retrieval. The internal hard disk makes it possible to store a very large number of weld parameter sets along with a large amount of historical weld playback data. All Friction welders are linked via network to the Quality Assurance Office.