Wire End Quality Assurance - Crimp Force Monitoring

In modern, high volume wire harness production, automatic wire strippers are used to strip insulation from the wire prior to the crimping process where a terminal is fixed to the stripped wire. 

Wire End Quality Assurance - In-Process Strip & Seal Inspection

Wire processing involves high speed precision cutting and stripping, and often the placement of a weather seal onto the wire before the terminal is applied. 

Tube bending is a highly automated process to produce high volumes of complex tubes, each one formed to very precise specifications.

Unseen, unknown and unresolved process issues in mandrel bending lead to premature tool wear, product quality issues, equipment damage and costly downtime. 

Periodically, bending operations can be hit with a rash of mandrel link failures, potentially leaving a ball behind in a tube. 

In-Process Variation Monitoring - Hose Crimping Applications 

Tubing is used to transport fluid and gas in pneumatic, hydraulic, or process applications and is combined with flexible hose into fluid handling assemblies.  The connections between tubing and hose are frequently crimped in a press in order to make a leak proof seal.

Errors in the crimp process lead to defects in the product.  The hardest process error to correct is the one you can’t see.

Broaching is a cutting operation that occurs during  insertion and withdrawal of specialized tools.  The process can degrade or change quickly due to tool dulling, jammming, material build up, etc., which can lead to excessive loading on the tool, and ultimately tool failure and downtime.

Many orbital riveting applications require a method to rivet to force.   The orbital head moves down onto the part through the riveting process.  Using the Piezo Strain Transducer and MMU Amplifier Module™, the force is continuously monitored until the setpoint force is reached at which point the orbital riveting cycle is complete and the head retracts.