Building Products
Turnkey Tread Production System
Consolidating for Efficiency
Acieta worked with the team at Cotterman to design and build this fully integrated tread manufacturing system, bringing tread formation, welding, and palletizing into a single cell.
Built to handle 77 different tread parts in a 56-second cycle time, the system consolidated multiple applications across multiple locations into one facility.
Benefits
77 Parts. One Cell.
Vision-guided handling, automated forming and robotic welding accommodate different tread configurations without retooling.
High Speed
Coordinated robots across picking, forming, welding, and palletizing deliver a 56-second cycle time.
Simplified End-of-Line
Automated palletizing completes the production flow without manual handling between welding and outbound staging.
56-Sec
Cycle Time per Piece
System Components
A vision-guided robot picks blanks from inbound pallets and transfers them through the cell, identifying and orienting each part without manual loading or pre-staging between operations.
A RIBS-enabled robotic press brake cell handles all forming operations across 77 tread configurations, with the robot managing all loading, positioning, and unloading without dedicated operators at the brake.
A robotic welding cell completes tread corner welds with consistent placement and penetration across every part, delivering repeatable weld quality at production speed.
Finished treads are palletized automatically at the end of the cell, completing the flow from raw blank to outbound pallet without manual handling.
