JR Automation

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About JR Automation

JR Automation designs custom production systems around the customer’s product and required manufacturing sequence. A line can combine industrial robots, conveyors, feeders, vision, fastening, dispensing, joining, testing and data collection. Applications range from battery and automotive assembly to medical devices, aerospace components and consumer products, including high-speed machinery producing more than 1,000 parts per minute.

The company manages simulation, mechanical and electrical engineering, controls, fabrication, testing, installation and later support through a global network. Customers can commission an individual cell or a connected line with manufacturing-execution and traceability interfaces. JR Automation has operated as a Hitachi Group company since 2019, linking its integration business with Hitachi’s digital and industrial systems.

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Operating milestones

  • Operating milestone

    2026-09-12 - The liftgate welding station was specified for an operator-inclusive cycle below 25 seconds.

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  • Operating milestone

    2026-09-12 - The screening installation accommodates 417,000 stored compounds.

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  • Operating milestone

    2026-09-12 - The screening installation provides incubation capacity for 51,840 assays.

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  • Operating milestone

    2026-09-12 - Official case study reports an achieved 36.98-second module cycle.

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  • Operating milestone

    2026-09-12 - Official case study reports a two-second indexing-dial cycle.

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  • Operating milestone

    2026-09-12 - Official case study reports changeovers in under one minute.

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  • Operating milestone

    2026-09-12 - Official case study reports a three-second cycle per weld.

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Deployments

  • Customer site

    2025-03-17 - JR Automation deployed a custom FANUC multi-robot brake-spider production system at Pentaflex, reducing required labour units per shift from seven to two. - FANUC multi-robot brake-spider system

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Brake Spider Assembly System is a custom line for automating the assembly of brake-spider components. It coordinates material handling, component insertion, fastening, and process verification around the heavy-vehicle brake assembly.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Flexible Pipe Sorting and Palletizing System is a custom line for drainage-pipe production running around the clock. It prepares long flexible pipe into selectable pack sizes, straps the bundles, and palletizes or crates them.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Electric Vehicle Battery Pack Assembly System is a custom automation line delivered with Lion Electric for electric-vehicle battery-pack production. It brings the pack assembly workflow into a coordinated industrial system.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Flexible Welding Cell was designed for low-volume runs spanning more than 100 part types. The cell targets automated fixture handling, sub-minute changeovers, and a cited three-second cycle per weld.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Mobile Energy Storage Assembly System is an automated module line developed alongside a start-up manufacturer’s product-design work. The delivered line achieved a cited 36.98-second cycle per module.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Power Liftgate Laser Weld Station is a machine for welding liftgate-actuator components through a plastic outer layer. It accommodates three part types with minimal changeover and was specified for a total operator-inclusive cycle below 25 seconds.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Robot Synchronization System addresses production cells where part variation requires robot-point adjustments. It reduces the need to repeat the same manual correction on every robot in a machine.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation's SEE3 system automates contact-lens production inside a controlled nitrogen environment. It combines mould handling, liquid dispensing, mould closure and curing with airlocks that preserve low oxygen levels and cleanliness.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Sun Visor Assembly Cell is a custom system for automating an automotive customer’s visor assembly workflow. It integrates dedicated fixtures, part handling, and assembly processes in one controlled cell.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Umbilicus Leak Tester automatically checks a five-lumen medical tube for both internal cross-leakage and external leakage. The machine isolates and evaluates each flow path using purpose-built sealing and pneumatic instrumentation.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Yarn Packing System automates the movement of 40-pound yarn packages from spinning frames to inspection, testing, and palletizing. It also maintains product identity across visually similar yarn varieties.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Brake Valve Assembly and Test System is a modular production installation for anti-lock brake cartridge valves. The pictured 24-module system combines assembly, laser welding, testing, and final handling.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Card Registration, Orientation, and Punch Cell processes 325 mm square screen-printed Mylar cards containing 18 rows. The system uses laser registration sensors to locate fiducials and maintain artwork position before punching.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Flat Pack Actuator System assembles automotive HVAC actuators through coordinated motor-assembly and actuator-assembly sectors. A high-speed indexing dial handles the core motor process on a two-second cycle.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s High Throughput Drug Discovery Screening System is a three-robot laboratory installation coordinating 18 peripherals and 13 asynchronous processes. JR Automation reports capacity for 417,000 stored compounds and 51,840 incubated assays.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Aircraft Engine Cowling Insert Perforator is a six-axis gantry system for processing composite material against half-engine-cowling geometry. It uses CNC architecture to coordinate the manipulator and dedicated perforation tooling.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Anti-Lock Brake Assembly System is a machine designed to assemble and test small brake components to the customer’s international production standards. It joins the assembly and quality workflow in one controlled system.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s Cabinet Face Frame Assembly Cell is a custom system developed to automate a cabinet-maker’s complex face-frame assembly process. The cell replaces a manual workflow with coordinated part handling and assembly equipment.

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  • Operating use

    2026-09-12 - JR Automation’s EGR Valve Assembly Line is a 12-station system with 14 robots for two valve products: a two-shutter valve and a one-way valve. The line combines multiple joining, insertion, adjustment, and test processes.

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Timeline

Events

Relations

Relationships

  • Hitachi

    Acquirer - Hitachi announced an agreement to acquire JR Automation.

Context

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Context tags

  • Industrial robotics supply chain - Stack Layer - JR Automation's robotics role maps to the industrial robotics supply chain stack layer.
  • Industrial automation and robotics integrator - Stack Layer - JR Automation belongs in the industrial automation integrator peer group based on its robotics segment and product or workflow focus.