Location: Michigan, USA
Customer: Suppliers of automotive
welded assemblies
Growth driver: Elimination of costly
hand sorting
Case study
Requirement
Metal stampers fabricating welded assemblies
for automakers need to weld studs to sheet
metal parts for assembly. Occasionally a
stud with no threads gets welded to a part,
requiring costly hand sorting and rework.
Sheet metal stampers attempted to use
technologies like laser or proximity sensors to
detect problems, but while they could often
detect the presence of a stud, they were
not sensitive enough to detect threads. The
industry needed a detection method sensitive
enough to detect missing threads on a stud
and durable enough to withstand extreme
operating conditions.
Solution
The Automation Solutions experts at IMI
Precision Engineering used their unique,
proven steel-faced inductive sensor
technology to develop the only stud detector
in the industry with sufficient sensitivity and
range to detect both the presence of studs
and whether they are threaded or not. The
IMI Norgren Stud Thread Detector helps
users eliminate scrap caused by missing or
unthreaded studs. It also eliminates hand
sorting, a quality control process that can cost
an average of $20,000 every time it is required.
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Scrap, sorting and rework problems
solved by unique new stud thread sensor
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