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Application Note | Piston Connecting Rod Fracture: Force Monitoring in V8 and V10 Assembly
An engine manufacturer required a solution to successfully monitor the crank force to verify the correct range of key parameters to ensure the quality of the connection of the connecting rods joining the pistons to crankshaft was not compromised. Sciemetric’s process monitor resolved the issue by closely monitoring the crank and peak force, bushing, falling slope and area under the curve while simultaneously monitoring both the cranking process and bushing press forces with a single system with a five second machine cycle time. Read the Application Note to learn more.
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Application Note: Wire Crimp Monitoring (AN120)
An automotive manufacturer of wire harnesses chose Sciemetric to monitor the crimping of copper terminals into wires. The manufacturer experienced dramatic improvements in manufacturing quality and repeatability. This high speed process takes 30 mS to complete, with 0.5 seconds between crimps.
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Application Note: Spool Valve Optimization and Assembly (AN165)
Spool valves require crimping at a precise location in order to ensure uniform and balanced flow characteristics. Before approaching Sciemetric, a spool valve manufacturer had been attempting to solve this problem with another company. After spending about $30,000 and many months attempting to develop another system to do the job, they still could not get the system to work. A 30-minute discussion with Sciemetric solved the problem: a simple five-line program was all that was needed to complete the task.
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Application Note: Valve Tappet Set Process Monitoring
When a lack of repeatability in a precise fastening application was causing problems at end-of-line test, this manufacturer needed a reliable solution that would improve quality on their engine assembly lines. Sciemetric’s sigPOD allowed them to improve first time through (FTT), decrease cycle time, reduce station personnel and cut rework costs—all while producing a much higher tolerance engine. The solution performed so well that it was applied across all three of their manufacturing facilities in North America.
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Application Note: Medical device maker eliminates bottlenecks, enables yield increase with switch to digital records
A manufacturer saw benefits in quality and efficiency by replacing manual, paper-based processes with digital data management and analytics. Read the case study.
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Application Note | Avoiding Destructive Pull-Tests for Weld
Resistance welding is commonly used in medical device manufacturing to join two metal subcomponents together. In many cases the integrity of this joint is critical to the long term reliability of the device, such as, for example, the attachment of a wire lead within a pacemaker. Read the Application Note to learn how Sciemetric provides a solution to avoid these defects.
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Application Note: Snap Ring Verification
Manufacturer adds reliable, automated verification to axle snap ring installation processes, reducing downtime and rework costs during vehicle assembly. Learn how.
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Application Note: Detecting Debris Under Brake Caliper Seal
End-of-line leak tests were not catching some brake caliper defects. Process anomalies such as small debris pieces, or “chips” in the seal groove were resulting in very subtle defects which were impossible to detect. Caliper defects were being discovered by vehicle assembly plants or by customers, which led to expensive warranty repairs and productivity disruptions. The manufacturer required a solution with minimal tooling and fixturing modification that would reliably improve caliper quality without affecting yield. Read our application note to learn how Sciemetric solved the problem.
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Application Note | Cold Engine Testing: Mechanical Integrity and Fuel Systems Tests
Engine manufacturers require a reliable and cost-effective end-of-line test to catch any defects missed during engine assembly. Hot testing, with its long cycle times and requirements for dedicated resources and facilities for stations, is expensive. Read our Application Note to learn about Sciemetric's solution.
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Application Note: Crimp Nut Monitoring
A manufacturer of steering linkages required a method to measure and improve the quality and effectiveness of their idler arm assembly process, specifically the nut crimping operation. Their problem was that there was no way to determine the effectiveness of the operation as common problems such as cross-threading, missing crimp and “soft” crimping often occurred. Read this Application Note to learn how Sciemetric solved the problem.
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