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High-Speed Automated Assembly for Automotive Component Production

High-speed automation is more than moving parts faster—it’s about doing more in less space with greater consistency. This project shows how precision assembly, robotics, and…

Automated Medical Product Assembly Machine

Robotic Integration

Automated Coil Staker for Medical Product Assembly

See how SDC’s custom automation solution transformed endoscope brush production, boosting efficiency, quality, and throughput with automated medical product assembly.

Overhead view of a complex automated machine used in manufacturing or assembly. The machine features a large, circular rotary indexing table with multiple workstations arranged around it.

Automated Wick Assembly Machine

SDC’s expertise in automated assembly systems was evident when a new customer required a fully automated custom machine. With modifications to their current product, the…

Close-up of an automated industrial machine featuring a yellow Fanuc robot arm precisely placing or applying a package. The machine includes rolls of packaging material being fed through rollers, sensors, and automated assembly components

Electrical Connector Production

Curious how automation can revolutionize your production line? This case study reveals how cutting-edge robotic systems, precision label application, and seamless tooling changeover boosted both…

An overhead view of an automated manufacturing cell with two bright yellow robotic arms enclosed within clear plastic housings and yellow safety guarding.

Thermal Heating Component Assembly

A returning SDC customer in the thermal heating industry needed a fully automated production line to improve a time-consuming manual process. The system was developed…

Automated assembly line with robotic arms and conveyor belt for manufacturing, enclosed by safety fencing.

Testing and Inspection

Hose Assembly & Test Machine

One of SDC’s long-term customers that manufactures corrugated tubing for appliances needed a machine to assemble, print mark, and perform testing on their product. Having…

Ignition software on SDC's sleek new HMI design integrated onto an automated machine

Advancing Automation with Custom Ignition Software

In the rapidly evolving world of automation, success depends on leveraging cutting-edge software and systems to optimize machine performance from the ground up. Innovative electrical…

Tuck and fold bottom flap closure on an SDC rotary cartoner

Custom Cartoning Machine for Industrial Clamps

Steven Douglas Corp. (SDC) was tasked with a new challenge from a returning customer. Adding to their production line of hose clamp manufacturing, they needed…

Assembly line, enclosed in a transparent safety cage, features two yellow robotic arms. One arm is actively working on a component on a conveyor belt, while the other is staged nearby.

Automated Medical Tube Assembly

Advanced Medical Tube Assembly made easy with robotics, vision, and smart Flex Feeding—see how we streamlined production for our longstanding customer in the life sciences…

FANUC SCARA robot on an SDC Flex Feeder

Consumer Products

Custom Automated Tool Packaging Machine

A leading international supplier in the cutting tool industry presented the need for a flexible automated packaging solution to add to their manufacturing facility. This…

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