Automatic screwdriving
Singulate, confirm and blow or place one screw at the driver without thread damage or doubles.
ASSEMBLY AUTOMATION
Automated fastener, pin and insert feeding for assembly stations.
Complete feeding systems for automated drivers, presses, insertion stations, robots and controlled operator assembly.
REPEATABLE ASSEMBLY INPUT
Reliable assembly starts before the tool reaches the part.
Screws, nuts, washers, pins, rivets, bushes and inserts can tangle, overlap, nest or arrive in several stable attitudes. The feeding cell must control these behaviours before the assembly cycle calls for a component.
The final presentation may be a blow-feed tube, shuttle, escapement, precision pick point, nest or insertion tool. Each route creates different demands for orientation, buffer pressure, sensing and fault recovery.
STATION INTERFACES
Engineer the last 300 millimetres as carefully as the feeder.
The most critical tooling often sits between the end of the track and the assembly operation.
Press & insertion
Present pins, bushes, seals or inserts to a fixed nest or robot at a repeatable datum.
Robotic assembly
Create a known pick face, verify availability and give the robot clean gripper access.
Manual assisted assembly
Deliver counted or one-at-a-time components to an ergonomic, sensor-confirmed pick point.
Multi-component assembly
Coordinate several feeders, buffers and station requests through one cell controller.
Error-proofing
Use presence, height, orientation or selected feature checks before release to the station.
FASTENER FEEDING RISKS
Control tangles, threads and queue pressure.
The feeder must manage the difficult part population, not only the easiest samples. Long shanks, open features, burrs, mixed sizes, oil and damaged threads can all destabilise automatic presentation.
- Separate mixed or damaged incoming parts
- Protect threads and cosmetic surfaces
- Reject wrong head or shank orientation
- Limit track pressure at the escapement
- Detect release and clear jams safely
SEVERAL ASSEMBLY INPUTS
Feeding more than one component into the same cycle?
A multi-component cell must coordinate each feeder, buffer, verification point and recipe around the complete build sequence. The slowest or least stable feed path determines the usable cycle.
PROJECT ASSESSMENT
Define the component presentation before you lock the assembly-station design.
We will help define the right starting architecture, the evidence needed for selection and the interfaces that belong in the project scope.