Screws aren’t the only fasteners that can be fed to fully or semiautomatic installation tools. Nuts, setscrews and other fasteners—both threaded and unthreaded—can be fed automatically, too.
For one European Tier 1 supplier, the challenge was feeding and installing plates and pins—along with screws—in door hinge assemblies. The company tried manual assembly for a while before switching to a DEPRAG Schulz GmbH & Co. system based on a rotary indexing dial.