Today’s cars are shining examples of perfectly automated processes. From the smallest screw to the largest metal sheet, from the first second of production to the final engine performance test – behind every car is a seamless chain of thousands of individual steps. With advances in automation technology comes improved product quality. The safer and more reliable processes become, the more running costs for maintenance and machine downtime will fall.

Improved process reliability is therefore a decisive competitive advantage for companies like NSM Magnettechnik GmbH, a manufacturer of customised conveying systems that works with leading companies in the automotive industry. In a new system for stacking metal sheets, the experts have opted for a cylinder/valve combination consisting of individual valve VUVG and standard cylinder DSBC with self-adjusting end-position cushioning PPS. With five hundred of these cylinders, the ready-to-install solution ensures precise cushioning and synchronous motion.



Small changes, big impact
It is often the small things that make the biggest difference – take the changeover of pneumatic cylinders in a stacking system for sheet metal blanks, for example. If the blanks are to be made into perfect vehicle outer skin panels such as car roofs, doors, bonnets and boots, you need more than just a flawlessly cut blank.

The processes for setting down and stacking the blanks must also be error-free. If just one of the 500 pneumatic cylinders pushes the sheet transported by magnetic strip to the stack at the wrong time or in the wrong direction, this results in defects that impair product quality. In previous systems, the process for pushing the magnetically transported sheet metal parts was carried out using cylinders DNCB with manually adjustable cushioning PPV. Since the changeover to the new cylinders DSBC with self-adjusting cushioning PPS, process reliability has significantly improved.