Hydraulic presses cost less than servo presses, right? Wrong. The up front price of a servo press is almost always higher than that of a hydraulic press, but the benefits of a servo press more than make up for the difference.

As manufacturing moves further into the twenty-first century, more and more companies are turning to in-process testing to verify the functionality of their assemblies.

The customer required precision force and distance control along with sophisticated analysis to assemble valve seats and valve guides to precise tolerances and give their customer data to prove it.

The customer needed to thread two sub-assemblies together and torque to a specific value. The old way of making this part was to spin some electric torque-driver tools, while actuating them to the part with air cylinders.

Customer was looking for a turnkey assembly cell that had flexibility, data storage and management, but more importantly, a system that could provide accuracy to the battery manufacturing process.

Our customer is manufacturing a new recreational gearbox and has an existing line with aging monitoring and control equipment to verify proper backlash.

In pressing operations, measuring the force applied by the ram throughout its stroke can provide critical information about the quality of the assembly.

Promess Application Engineers, Eric Britton and Edward Stockline, will be going through various assembly application examples, describing the different methods to achieve the perfect press fit solution.

How do you make an assembly to a tolerance more than six times tighter than the stack up of the tolerances of the parts to be assembled?

Producing automotive belt tensioners requires an assembly system that can monitor and control both linear and rotational motions in real-time to achieve the proper assembly sequence.