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Automotive Resistance Welding, Update Technology
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Update Technology 3-day Resistance Welding Classes:
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My experience in resistance welding:
1977: Welding Engineer at Chevy Detroit Gear & Axle, 1st automotive Pertron user.
1978: As employee #12, I started the Pertron Detroit office, for automotive market.
1982: This new automotive business put Pertron in the Inc 500 , in 1982, 1983 & 1984.
1987: Start up of Automation Data Corp. ("ADC") specifying a weld control that Toshiba built.
1988: ADC sold more in their first year than Pertron did during all three "Inc 500" years! Pertron Paragon
1992: Started Update Technology to assist my friends in the automotive world.

My Projects:
Redesigned Pertron Control for automotive applications:
Patent Number 4,456,809
Modular construction = Data Entry Panel and Single SCR unit.
Cost reduced to 1/3 of the original (PWC-300) Pertron Control.
Addition of features; stepper, repeat, last weld data, and more.
Fully programmable using alphanumeric welding terms.

Worked with Chrysler ODMTC to produce their "SA2" weld control specification and became a 50% supplier of Chrysler controls (Medar was approved to this spec. to supply the other 50%).

Worked with Ford AAD (Div. of Body Assembly) to become the first control to be oficially approved to the "10TS" control standard.

Our ADC Weld Control introduced some "firsts" to automotive applications:

Drastic reduction of SCR failures
Last weld data, for the last hundred welds
Eliminated SCR condensation problem
Compact size (5"x 6"x 7" = 0.13 Cu.Ft.!)
Isolated cooling water from 480 VAC
Stepper boost applied every 2nd weld
Monitoring of secondary deterioration
SCR short trips breaker without control power
Memory backup without troublesome batteries

Direct interface to robots
Elimination of load resistors
Touchdown weld initiation
Network integrated
RS485 serial interface
Digital current calibration
Current set-up in Kiloamps
Automatic current regulation

Most modern weld controls have adopted these features, so now they are available to all users.
After ADC closed, I assisted three other companies to market similar controls.

Formal Resistance Welding classes taught at these plants:

GM Shreveport LA
GM Moraine OH
GM Fort Wayne IN
GM Arlington TX
GM Parma OH

GM Janesville WI
GM Linden NJ
Raytheon Services
GM Proto, Warren MI

Saturn, Spring Hill TN
PSI, Ottoville OH
The Budd Co. PA
Budd Co, Shelbyville KY
GM Wilmington Assy

DEC, Madison WI
Lamb, Marysville MI
GM Wentzville, MO
GM Flint MI

Startup Assistance to:
Most of the above, plus: GM Lordstown Assy, Kuka Welding Systems, GM Lordstown Fab, Delco Kettering

Technical Assistance to:

Atek Controls Corp, Chattanooga
Medar Inc, Farmington Hills MI

WTC Corp, Carol Stream IL
Ford Gas Tank, Rouge Plant

GM WGV Group, Troy MI
Mascotech, Warren MI

Lectures, Papers given:

SME; Detroit, Charlotte, Columbus & Nashville

AWS, Detroit

I can teach formal classes or troubleshoot automotive resistance welding applications