Terry Taylor, head of the Coherix Dispensing System Engineering Team, checks a new Coherix 3D Mini™, reported to be capable of inspecting adhesive beads faster than 2D systems currently in use. (Photo: PRNewswire)
The company is offering six workshops for automotive, electronics, robotics, and dispensing-system engineers in 2025.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Coherix is expanding its industry-wide engineering workshop program designed to improve the application of adhesives and sealants in product-manufacturing operations, the company said in a release.
For 2025, Coherix plans to double the number of workshop sessions offered in 2024—from three to six—and increase potential enrollment for automotive and consumer-electronics engineers from 70 up to 200.
The workshop, sponsored by the Engineering and Manufacturing Alliance (EMA), brings together engineers from a variety of industries to discuss and discover solutions to common dispensing issues seen in production environments. Systems integrators, robot suppliers, dispensing equipment suppliers, material suppliers, and end users come together in one room to share first-hand experiences and converse about the latest technologies and methods for adhesive dispensing in manufacturing environments.
As Design-2-Part went to press, the first workshop for 2025 was scheduled to take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, January 23 at the Coherix Technical Center in Ann Arbor.
The Total Dispensing System Engineering Workshops (TDSE) are moderated by Terry Taylor, an engineer with more than 25 years of dispensing-system experience. Taylor manages the Coherix Dispensing System Engineering Team.
“The development of trouble-free dispensing systems is an extremely complex process that includes robots, fixturing, adhesive-dispensing equipment, and process-control measures, along with a host of other factors,” said Dwight Carlson, Coherix chairman and CEO, in the release. “It’s been an art form up until now, but we hope these workshops will inject more science and inter-company cooperation into the process.”
Carlson added that the TDSE Workshop is designed to help participants develop solutions to a variety of common adhesive and sealant dispensing issues.
“Due to the overwhelming interest these workshops generated last year from customers, partners, and the dispensing industry in general, we decided to more than double enrollment capability in 2025,” he noted.
In 2025, Coherix is offering TDSE workshops in January, March, May, July, September, and November. Registration and details can be found on the Coherix website:
https://coherix.com/tdse-workshop/.
Workshop discussion topics will include the following:
- Proper upfront selection of dispensing equipment
- Techniques to overcome part-to-part variation issues
- Management of material-viscosity variation
- Methods to prevent squeeze-out from occurring in production
- Optimization of dispensing-material usage
- How to overcome in-cell communication delays
Coherix describes itself as “a pioneer in the development of 3D-enabled adaptive-process-control technology.” The company provides high-performance adhesive-dispensing inspection technology to global OEMs, tier-one suppliers, line builders, dispensing-equipment companies, and vision-system integrators in a variety of industries.
The company recently introduced what it called “industry-first technology” to monitor and adjust the application of adhesives on extremely small assemblies found in automotive electronic-control modules, cell phones, medical systems, and other electronic devices. The Coherix 3D Mini™ can reportedly check adhesive beads as small in width as two human hairs faster and more effectively than 2D systems currently in use.
Nearly 150 of the world’s leading automakers and tier-one automotive suppliers are reported to be Coherix customers. More than 4,500 dispensing systems equipped with Coherix 3D computer-vision technology are installed on manufacturing and assembly lines around the world, the company said in the release.