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Powertrain components perfectly joined

By Niranjan Mudholkar,

Added 05 August 2014

With ever more complex constituent components and ever smaller batch sizes, powertrain production is facing many challenges. For a large number of applications in this sector the heat-shrink assembly process is almost predestined.

Tailor-made system design

What kind of specific machine building know-how is required to design heat-shrinking machines? The crucial point in all of it must be the delicate production sequence of preheating, heat-shrinking and cooling. The Emag specialists have the required practical knowledge to develop systems that offer total process integrity. In every case the system is tailored to suit the relevant production requirement.

Against this background, the machine manufacturers from Southern Germany rate the economic potential of their technology very highly and are doing so with great optimism. For instance, on the emerging Asian markets, which are flexing their muscles with a rapidly accelerating automobile production, many suppliers will have to increase their production capacity considerably over the next few years. And for this, Emag Automation offers a solution that provides the answer also to future technological developments. How heat-shrinking technology suits these developments is shown by a concluding look at the construction of the modern engine for utility vehicles, which features camshafts with integrated bearing elements. As a consequence, no downstream grinding processes can be carried out on these shafts, as the chips produced would damage the bearings. It is why composite shafts are used exclusively - an approach that will only gain in importance when it comes to future utility vehicle designs.

Source: Emag India

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