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.

In the assembly and manufacturing of automotive water pumps, there are various components that need to be pressed to a dimension relative to a machined surface on the pump housing, and not to a shoulder.

Customers (Automotive OEM and tier two suppliers) were having intermittent fuel rail leakage. Rails were 100% tested and all passed standard leak test inspection. However, one per 100,000 rails would leak once in the field, causing the potential for injury.