Fasten automatically threaded bush and studs for car component0 pages
Nr. 104
January 2014
Tightening automation
Car components field
Customer’s need:
Fasten automatically 1 threaded M20 bush
(oil filter joint) and 2 M8 studs on the oil pan
of internal combustion engines.
The required production rate
is 80 pieces / hour.
2 studs M8x55
Bush
1 bush M20x27
Studs
Components
The solution:
Fiam has manufactured a semi-automatic tightening machine which includes:
t the manual loading and unloading of the component (the design of the machine considers that in
the future this operation will be made by a robot)
t automatic tightening of the components
t automatic management of waste pieces
Working phases
tManual loading of the component on a customized jig
tOnce the start is given the jig is moved inside the machine to perform following automatic operations: