Assembly in Action: Part Marker Makes Good Impression

The Marshalltown, IA, plant of Lennox Industries, a manufacturer of residential and commercial heating and air conditioning equipment, required automation for a new portion of their gas furnace manufacturing process. The company needed to permanently mark the metal orifices with measurement codes. The measurements on these orifices provide a way to match the correct orifice size to the appropriate furnaces.

With help from Matthews International (Pittsburgh), a part marking system was developed. The Pro-Point Model 2324 programmable indenting machine is used with a bowl feeder. The bowl feeder delivers the orifices to the Pro-Point.

The Pro-Point is microprocessor controlled and fires a single carbide-tipped stylus to form legible dot matrix characters. The complete system prints, releases and sends the marked orifices into holding bins. The indenting machine can mark one orifice every 3 seconds, an improvement over the manual system.

For more information on parts marking, call Matthews International at 412-665-2500, visit www.matthewsmarking.com.

The ASSEMBLY Show South

ASSEMBLY is thrilled to return to the Music City Center in Nashville, TN for The ASSEMBLY Show SOUTH on May 1-2, 2024. This is a booming time for manufacturing and the U.S. South is right in the heart of the action. According to ASSEMBLY’s most recent annual capital spending survey, the South is projected to account for 31 percent of total spending this year, marking the fifth straight year this region has accounted for at least 30 percent of capital spending in the U.S.

In this session, manufacturers will learn how Quality function deployment (QFD) can transform consumers’ qualitative demands into quantitative parameters that will shape the design of their product and, ultimately, their manufacturing process.

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