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Jigless robot welding is one of the most demanding disciplines in the automation industry. Jigless processes offer significant benefits by reducing the cost of custom tooling and providing flexibility to process part variations with low batch sizes but make high demands on robotics and the know-how of suppliers and users. The main aim of this research project is to study plant layout and materials handling for jigless spot welding systems in order to investigate the best strategy in Alhasawi Company in Kuwait. This project was done to optimize the jigless spot welding and compare between the original layout of Al-Hasawi Company (semi-automated system) and the re-designed layout (fully automated system - Jigless robot welding). It is found that the jigless welding process has better performance and utilization, less process time and less defect rate.
Keywords: Jigless welding, spot welding, factory layout, automation, materials handling© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.