Fasten automatically bush and studs for car field0 pages
No. 105
January 2014
Tightening automation
Car components field
Customer’s need:
To fasten automatically 1 threaded M20 cap complete
of washer and 2 M8 pins diameter 8 mm on underside
carter (oil pan) of internal combustion engines.
Required production rate is
80 pieces / hour.
Solution:
Fiam manufactured a semi-automatic tightening machine which
includes:
tmanual loading and unloading
of the component (design of
the machine considers that in
the future this operation will be
made by a robot)
tautomatic tightening of the
components
t
automatic management of
waste pieces
Component
to be processed
Component area where two pins have to be inserted
Customized jig
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: