Smart Lightweight Body | Heron Intelligent Debuts at AUTO TECH China 2026, Unlocking Advanced Metal Joining Solutions for Automobiles

From November 27 to 30, 2026, AUTO TECH China 2026 (the 24th Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition – Automotive Industry Chain Exhibition Area) will open at the Canton Fair Complex, Area D, Guangzhou. Facing the challenges of joining high-strength steel, aluminum alloy, carbon fiber, and other multi-material dissimilar materials under the trend of automotive lightweighting, Guangzhou Heron Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., which has been deeply engaged in metal joining equipment for more than 30 years, relies on its self-developed medium-frequency inverter, medium-voltage capacitor discharge, and flat self-piercing riveting core technologies. It serves many Fortune Global 500 customers, with business covering more than 20 countries around the world. At this exhibition, Heron Intelligent (Booth No.: 20G76) will present complete vehicle and component joining solutions, the FSPR flat self-piercing riveting system, medium-voltage capacitor discharge welding machines, robot welding guns, and medium-frequency DC spot/projection welding machine series products, providing efficient and reliable customized advanced metal joining processes for the automotive industry.

Heron was founded in Guangzhou in 1991 and is a benchmark enterprise in the field of metal joining equipment. With welding and riveting technologies as its core anchors, it integrates R&D, manufacturing, and solution output, and has been deeply engaged in the industry for more than 30 years. It is a technology cultivator and solution provider in China's metal joining equipment track. Heron began developing medium-frequency inverter and medium-voltage capacitor discharge processes in 2001, focusing on metal joining processes. Its self-developed core technologies include a full series of resistance welding, clinching, and flat self-piercing riveting equipment. It serves manufacturing industries such as automotive bodies, automotive components, low-voltage electrical appliances, compressors, home appliances, hardware, and motors, and has a high-end customer base of 35 Fortune Global 500 companies, with customers throughout more than 20 countries and regions including Europe and the United States. Guangheng Long has now built a strong R&D team with more than 120 engineers. With the core genes of "focus and reliability, innovative invention, and craftsmanship manufacturing," it continues to drive the iterative upgrading of metal joining technology.

Product Display

1、Complete Vehicle and Component Joining Solutions for Automobiles

● Body Manufacturing Solutions: Achieving Efficient and Reliable Lightweight Joining

In response to the increasing use of new materials such as high-strength steel, aluminum alloy, and carbon fiber in automotive body manufacturing, Heron provides flexible customized joining process combinations to help manufacturing upgrades. For example, for high-strength steel joining, MFDC medium-frequency spot welding machines are used to ensure stable and reliable welding quality for high-strength materials. For steel-aluminum hybrid joining, FSPR flat self-piercing riveting technology is used to solve the joining challenge of dissimilar materials and ensure joint strength. For aluminum alloy joining, MFDC medium-frequency spot welding and FSPR riveting processes are combined to balance efficiency and joining reliability. This helps OEMs achieve body lightweighting goals while maximally ensuring body rigidity and passive safety, balancing performance and cost.

● Component Joining Solutions:

Focusing on the extremely demanding joining processes in automotive manufacturing, mainly used for medium-voltage capacitor discharge projection welding processes for body safety structural parts, subframes, and core body structural parts.

2、FSPR Flat Self-Piercing Riveting System

The ZM6 servo riveting system integrates a strain force sensor internally and is particularly suitable for high-precision riveting processes based on force and displacement monitoring. The overall machine weight is significantly optimized, and the required installation space is small. At the same time, when integrated with a robot arm, it demonstrates excellent weight-center-of-gravity optimization design.

● Lightweight overall machine, specially optimized range for robot applications

● Compact dimensional design

● Servo motor equipped with single-cable technology, striving for the simplest installation process

● Ultra-short cycle time, high-speed operation

● Active compensation during the riveting process to ensure precise positioning

3、Medium-Voltage Capacitor Discharge Welding Machine

Heron Intelligent's medium-voltage capacitor discharge projection welding technology is currently the most reliable solution for achieving stable connection between hot-formed steel and nuts. It completely solves the problem of boss thermal collapse in medium-frequency projection welding and meets the need for rapid continuous and stable heat input to melt the boss during the projection welding process, ensuring welding quality stability and consistency.

● Millisecond-level ultra-fast charging and large-pulse discharge curve

Using instantaneous pulse charging technology, energy input is fast, and output is more concentrated and faster. Welding can be completed in an extremely short time, with a fast cycle time, avoiding overheating and thread deformation.

● Extremely small heat-affected zone

● Stable and controllable penetration depth

It can achieve stable penetration depth control of 0.2 mm, ensuring that the penetration depth, strength, and appearance of each weld spot remain highly consistent, achieving high-quality welding.

● Energy saving and power saving, low charging grid power, and low cooling water demand

4. Robot Welding Gun

Heron's new-generation robot steel-aluminum welding gun and control system, relying on its independent intellectual property rights inverter system and advanced control algorithms, as well as reliable medium-frequency welding transformers, has become a reliable execution terminal for ensuring robot spot welding quality and efficiency.

5、Medium-Frequency DC Spot/Projection Welding Machine

① Efficient and stable process welding, grid-friendly; ② Perfectly compatible with spot welding and projection welding processes, suitable for full-scenario joining of automotive body-in-white, structural parts, components, etc.; ③ Core self-developed controller with strong reliability, stability, and durability.