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News Release from: Precision Engineering | Subject: Pump assembly line
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 August 2003
Assembly line also calibrates and tests
pumps
A new "world-class assembly line" for one of the world's leading pump manufacturers also calibrates and tests of over 200 different types of pump.
Precision Engineering in Kent have recently completed the final stage of a new "world-class assembly line" for one of the world's leading pump manufacturers The complete assembly line caters for the assembly, calibration and test of over 200 different types of pump
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 7 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Substantial cost savings have been easily achieved from providing reduced operator levels, cycle times, reject rates and down time coupled with increased production output and quality - a single pump can be assembled in less than 60 seconds! The project was completed in 3 stages: a.
Stage 1 - Main Assembly Line.
b.
Stage 2 - Calibration and Test Machine Line.
c.
Stage 3 - Finish Off / Leak Test Line.
Each stage was completely designed, manufactured and developed by Precision Engineering and all three lines have been fully interfaced together with full data acquisition connected directly to the customer's network for quality and production analysis.
The line consists of a wide variety of processes and equipment including: a.
200m of conveyor system.
b.
100 individual component pallets.
c.
20 bespoke 'functional test machines'.
d.
DC tightening tooling.
e.
PC control systems.
f.
Various assembly techniques.
g.
Automatic line configuration using bar coding and RF tagging.
h.
Batch sizes from 1 to 10,000 are easily dealt with.
In addition over the past 12-months Precision Engineering has been increasing its activities in Build to Print projects.
"Customers who already have existing machine designs but do not have the manufacturing capabilities, man power or order book volume have benefited from providing us with designs / drawing sets ready for manufacture, assembly and test", says Rick Aitchison, Sales Manager at Precision Engineering.
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