Bilsing Automation North America recently introduced a new carbon fiber (CF) material handling frame that has the dimensional specifications for bodyshop applications as specified by NAAMS or North American Automotive Metric Standards.
The Bilsing CF frame components are different from traditional aluminum tubing used in bodyshop frames, as it can be made to be 50 percent lighter and with significantly lower deflection. These features help increase productivity and improve process stability, said company sources.
Wherever gripping and transporting becomes necessary in the automated process, the flexible tooling minimizes the expense for design and development. A customized solution is developed rapidly from a variety of standard components.
The benefits arising from the carbon fiber tooling are the customized profiles that can be designed to satisfy individual application requirements while interfacing with NAAMS-compliant components.
The Assembly Tooling Standardization serves to reduce costs of components used to fabricate sheet steel bodies-in-white, front-end sheet steel and closures with optimum quality and performance.
Bilsing’s CF frame ensures faster motion paths and quick settling of the robot which helps in the reduction of costs besides improving productivity and quality through less vibration.
Carbon tooling NAAMS frame have several benefits as highlighted by Bilsing and its partner CompoTech, which conducted a FEA research that compares an aluminum frame against carbon fiber.
Bilsing Automation North America is a subsidiary of Bilsing Automation GmbH, Germany, which specializes in the development and manufacturing of modular tooling systems for the pressroom, body shop and plastic molding applications in the automotive, food, packaging and glass industries.
The company strives to optimize product performance so as to enable cost reductions. It also offers support to customers through planning, design, engineering, assembly and commissioning. Bilsing Automation also provides other services like 3D digital simulation and on-site training as part of its service offerings.
Shamila Janakiraman is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Shamila’s articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
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