5 Ways to Improve Process Efficiency with Fastening Automation Workflows

Five Ways to Improve Process Control with Fastening Automation Workflows

Assembly, Automation & Robotics, Error-Proofing, Power Assembly Tools, Uncategorized

Is lost productivity impacting your manufacturing output? Repetitive fastening tasks managed across multiple workstations, tools, and assembly operators is an opportunity to improve process efficiency. Implementing a fastening automation workflow allows engineers to bridge the productivity gap. Grouping similar processes and assigning standardized tightening tasks allows manufacturers to streamline the assembly productivity process and remove…

Smart Electric Screwdriver System

How a Smart Fastening System Improves Production Output

Assembly, Automation & Robotics, Error-Proofing, Manufacturing, Power Assembly Tools

Whether you’re a production line manager or quality manager, improving your production is a constant project. That means finding cost-effective ways to increase speed and decrease lost products. When you’re working with products that are held together with threaded fasteners, managers often find room for improvement with their fastening systems. That doesn’t necessarily mean shutting…

Error-Prevention

Learn 5 Key Error Prevention Techniques for the Assembly Process

Error-Proofing, Power Assembly Tools, Torque Webinars

Solving fastening errors is about controlling variables or eliminating potential risks that create an unwanted fastening event. Mistake proofing is the quickest path to zero defects and is a critical enabler for efficient manufacturing. Preventing errors during the tightening process improves manufacturers’ quality control by reducing the number of defective products pulled from the assembly…

4 Methods to Reduce Scrap and Rework in Your Manufacturing Process

4 Methods to Reduce Scrap and Rework in Your Manufacturing Process

Error-Proofing, Power Assembly Tools, Process Control, Videos

Manufacturers experiencing excessive scrap-causing mistakes is a signal of an assembly process control issue. How can engineers and quality teams actively work to reduce the amount of scrap generated from a poor fastening process? With a process improvement initiative, manufacturers can minimize and eliminate waste and improve processes in operation. Advances in torque fastening technology…

Error-Proofing Assembly Process Techniques

Learn 5 Key Error-Proofing Assembly Process Techniques

Error-Proofing, Manufacturing, Power Assembly Tools, Torque Webinars

Solving fastening errors is about controlling variables or eliminating potential risks that create an unwanted fastening event. Mistake proofing is the quickest path to zero defects and is a critical enabler for efficient manufacturing. Error-proofing the complete tightening process improves manufacturers’ quality control process by reducing the number of defective products pulled from the assembly…

How to Implement Error-Proofing Manufacturing

Error-Proofing Step to Prevent Incomplete Fastening Run Downs

Assembly, Error-Proofing, Power Assembly Tools, Process Control

Error-proofing the fastening process improves manufacturers’ quality control process by reducing the number of defective products pulled from the assembly line and hedging the risk of liability from product failures in the field. A screw rattling loose in the avionics of a high-performance jet or from an implanted medical device can cause significant liability and…

Torque and Angle Fastening Method

Torque and Angle Tightening Method

Assembly, Error-Proofing, Manufacturing, Power Assembly Tools, Process Control

The Mountz smart electric screwdriver system offers a parameter setting option for an assembly application requiring torque and angle operation. The ECT and EC-Series electric screwdrivers allow a fastening process to torque a fastener to a preset value and then rotate a designated amount of degrees. The torque and angle process first tightens the fasteners…

Multi Sequence Fastening

How to Program a Multi Sequence Fastening Process for a Smart Electric Screwdriver System

Apply Torque, Assembly, Automation & Robotics, Error-Proofing, Process Control, Productivity, Torque Webinars

The Mountz smart electric screwdriver allows you to program multiple torque preset values and fastening steps into a single rundown event. Group similar processes and assign standardized tasks: program fastening sequences and torque tolerances for each fastener in a sequence for sensitive and complex assembly joints. You can achieve multiple fastening tasks with one tooling…

Smart cordless screwdrivers

Activate a Fastening Program with a Cordless Screwdriver’s Bar Code Scanner

Error-Proofing, Manufacturing, Power Assembly Tools, Process Control, Productivity

The EPT cordless screwdriver features a built-in bar code scanner. The bar code scanner lets the operator instantly select and activate a programmed fastening event on the controller. A bar code scanner can scan the bar code to trigger the correct event and capture and record the data for each run down by assigning a…