Foxconn Visit

The ECE Students from UMU will be participating in a technical visit to Foxconn. Below is a copy of the email sent by a representative from Foxconn to promote the visit. We are presently building electric tractors for a company named Monarch. We are also in negotiations with several manufacturers regarding new business opportunities. These are all related to Electric Vehicle manufacturing. Some of these products are ride share vehicles. Others are midsize and full-size delivery vehicles. In our body shop, we build the entire cab of the vehicle from steel and aluminum parts. We place the parts in custom designed mechanical fixtures. We use welding robots to automatically weld the parts together. Then material handling robots pick up the new assembly and move it to the next automation station. The next station may automatically dispense adhesive or sealer under robot control. Then more parts may be added, and more welding takes place. All the robotic welding and sealing is coordinated by Allen Bradley PLCs that communicate to the robots, weld controllers and sealant systems. We need: – Mechanical engineers to design and analyze fixture details and subassembly dimensions. – Controls engineers to write and adjust PLC programs to control the automation. – Electrical engineers to design and maintain the control circuits and safety systems. – Computer Engineers to design, program and maintain the vision systems, data collection equipment and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). – Industrial engineers to design, analyze and improve the production processes. Co-sponsored by: University of Mount Union, School of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 2300 Hallock Young Road, Lordstown, Ohio, United States, 44481