With so many ways to formulate plastic to get just the right combination of color, texture, strength and durability, it’s easy to forget how the parts will be assembled. However, if the parts will be assembled with screws, overlooking such parameters as thread style, driver speed and boss design could spell disaster on the assembly line.
“Any time we automate a screwdriving process, the customer ends up learning a lot about his parts,” says Jarrod Neff, marketing manager at Visumatic Industrial Products. “That’s especially true with plastic parts.”