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Steel Buildings line, specially designed and supplied to Allied by industrial innovator, Zeman.
“ The robotics that we’ ve implemented are really neat. We added a robotic line from Zeman, which all started with plate sorting and processing to boost quality control and safety,” Michael elaborates.“ Zeman is a wonderful company; originally, they were a structural steel manufacturer, and they still very much are today, but they built the robotic system for themselves and soon realized that the rest of the world needs it too.
“ The line starts by organizing parts on pallets using a robotic arm system that scans and organizes the parts per project. It then connects to the assembly and welding process; it’ s an automated process, from the sorting through to the welding, where the assembly isn’ t touched until the shotblasting and painting line. By connecting to the system’ s software, we can be certain of how long the parts will take to manufacture and that the designs are going to be accurate
without any conflicts in quality. That’ s the critical piece in ours and Zeman’ s partnership; with their system, we’ ve been able to grow. We’ ve already expanded our Texas facility by 40 percent; we now have 50 acres there in total and we’ ll be adding a second Zeman line to the facility this fall. In addition, we just completed an expansion to add component manufacturing to our operations.”
Such partnerships have been crucial to Allied’ s longevity and continued success, particularly amidst its expansion. As the demand for these high-speed structural systems increases, the company holds its relationships with its vendors dear, such as that with its trusted rooftop equipment supplier, Roof Curb. Per Michael Lassner, this is a collaboration:“ While we have a robust design and engineering team, the collaboration with partners such as Roof Curb, allows us to specifically engineer solutions to meet our clients structure and process needs, which allows us to provide client solutions
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