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Special Machine Building and Assembly Systems

Innovation cycles of less than one year are now standard throughout the industry, often leaving you less than six months to set up a new production line. This means you have to move quickly. Nowadays, you can protect your margins in small parts assembly and electronics production primarily through modularization and standardization using flexible, cost-effective automation solutions. That is exactly what we can do for you.

Satisfied customers, thanks to automation from Festo

Ready for action faster with standard products

Family-owned British company Harwin Plc specializes in high-performance plug connectors. The demands in this market are increasing just as quickly as miniaturization is advancing. In the meantime, products have achieved pin spacing of just 1.25 mm, yet have to withstand innumerable plugging operations, in some cases under extreme conditions. Harwin produces them in greatly differing variants.
The new Gecko production line needs to be correspondingly flexible, with the highest levels of reliability, precision, repetition accuracy and cost efficiency. The solution was a modular, scalable automation concept from Festo. The advantages include faster production lines, simplified commissioning and easy maintenance.

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Benefits of Standardization and Modularization

The math is simple: whatever you can save on R&D, engineering, and software programming will have a positive effect on your bottom line. Furthermore, you also benefit from economies of scale in procurement. And you can offer your solutions faster and with greater flexibility. Torsten Schulz, head of Global Key Account Management, Electronics and Assembly industry segment, demonstrates where the greatest potential savings can be found using a sample calculation:

Your savings potential, in black and white

Significant factors in determining your success are your expenses for design engineering and the products used: If you concentrate your efforts on standardized products and solutions, you can boost your profit directly by 20% to 30%. This has also been demonstrated by a study of the machinery industry in Germany by the VDMA.

Download the study "Future of German mechanical engineering" (PDF)

Field Reports

Headlights

Practice

LED it be

Austrian plant engineering firm Vescon developed a solution for producing modern LED headlights for the Slovakian plant of well-known Tier 1 supplier. The focus was on efficient handling systems, the correct processing of time-critical production steps and end-to-end traceability. Specialists from Festo's Technical and Application Center, who were taking care of the turnkey handling systems, made up part of the team.

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#Industrial robots #The electronics industry #Automotive Industry
PKC test platform

Practice

Test passed - compact precision

Mobile electronic devices are developed in highly automated processes. Yet their touchscreens and keys are generally still tested manually. PKC Electronics decided to go in a completely new direction with its Chameleon test platform. It offers automated, fast and reliable testing of mobile devices using different adapters. The mini planar surface gantry EXCM is completely in its element in this environment.

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#Industrial robots #The electronics industry
Harwin circuit boards

Practice

Flexible, yet standardised

Just as PCBs have successfully managed to pack an increasing amount of power into a smaller space, developers of plug connectors are working to accommodate more power and a higher contact density into smaller, lighter plug connectors. The family owned British manufacturer Harwin PLC relies on Festo automation to safeguard the quality and flexibility of its production using equipment such as the servo press kit YJKP and the compact handling system YXMx.

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#The electronics industry #Standard components

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List of Approved Components

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