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Location: Michigan, USA
Customer: Suppliers of automotive
welded assemblies
Key benefit: 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.
Scrap, sorting and rework problems
solved by unique new stud thread sensor
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