If you’ve shopped for a home appliance recently, you know they come with a bewildering array of features and price points. Even a device as seemingly simple as a gas stove can have a price tag in the hundreds or the thousands.
But, whether the appliance is basic model or high-end one, a countertop device or a refrigerator, chances are good that a pneumatic, hydropneumatic or electric press was used to assemble some of its components. Applications for presses in appliance manufacturing include hinge assembly, bearing insertion, gearbox assembly, and sheet-metal joining.