The biggest challenge in automatic screwdriving isn’t speed or torque accuracy: It’s getting the fastener to the tool reliably and oriented correctly. Fortunately, assemblers have several options for feeding screws to fully or semiautomatic drivers, including screw presenters, bowl feeders and step feeders.
The Boeing 777 jetliner is the backbone of many international airlines. The reliable workhorse, which has been used on long-haul flights for three decades, is produced in several variants. The aircraft’s 20-foot-wide aluminum fuselages range anywhere from 209 to 242 feet long.
CHANGWON, South Korea—Automation has enabled LG Electronics to boost productivity, decrease defects and increase safety at its appliance assembly plant here.
PLÜDERHAUSEN, Germany—Crane Electronics Group has opened a new sales and service facility here to serve customers and distributors throughout Europe. Located near Stuttgart, the new facility includes an onsite calibration laboratory.
How many times do you open and close the gas cap on your car? Once a week? Twice a week? More often? Over the life of a vehicle, you might fasten and unfasten the cap thousands of times.
Visumatic equipment installs screws, nuts, bolts, pins, and specialty fasteners. From robot end of arm tooling to vision guided robots, engineered fastening is their only business and they've been at it for over 55 years.
All manufacturers face the task of finding an ergonomic assembly tool with torque control; minimal torque reaction; low operational costs; and improved uptime.
We offer the full range of screw driving equipment - our own motors and controllers, hand-held drivers, single-spindle drivers, multi-spindle drivers, feeders and robots.
Makita is the industry leader in providing battery operated assembly tools to OEMs and now, with over 100 years of worldwide manufacturing coupled with our world class lithium ion battery platform, Makita has added cordless rivet tools to our offering for OEM manufacturing customers.
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