Automatic tightening of self-threading bushings on window frames0 pages

Number 108
September 2014

Tightening automation
Window frames field
Customer requirement:
Tightening system to be integrated onto a production line of wooden window frames. Automatic
tightening of self-threading bushings with depth
control: in fact the bushing must not protrude
from the horizontal surface.

Such production line is manufactured for an important Norwegian producer of wooden doors and
windows.

Solution:
Fiam has manufactured a customized solution with
two self-feeding automatic systems with following
features:
- tSpecial feeding unit for bushes;
- tSpecial selector;
- t double-movement fastening slides equipped
2
with 2 air nutrunner motors MCG25 with automatic and immediate air shut-off suitable to
arrange tightening:
tIn depth and in horizontal positions
tup to a max. torque of about 12 Nm
ton an area with an encumbrance/shoulder
below the tightening point
tSynchronously or asynchronously depending
on the production needs
Complete production line

Detail of Fiam tightening system installed on the line

Details of the feeding system installed on the line