Finishing and inspection updates.To answer customer needs for finishing and inspection, the company has increased its manufacturing capabilities. CNC (Computerized Numerical Control) See numerical control. CNC - Collaborative Networked Communication milling capabilities were increased by 30%, and the company has also increased its lathe lathe (lāth), machine tool for holding and turning metal, wood, plastic, or other material against a cutting tool to form a cylindrical product or part. It also drills, bores, polishes, grinds, makes threads, and performs other operations. turning capabilities by 25%. The company's primary business consists of dies and equipment. Alternate methods of finishing parts besides cryogenics cryogenics: see low-temperature physics. cryogenics Study and use of low-temperature phenomena. The cryogenic temperature range is from −238°F (−150°C) to absolute zero. At low temperatures, matter has unusual properties. and hand trimming are provided. The company's primary business is high volume automotive and pharmaceutical rubber components. Along with its standard line of hydraulic and pneumatic trimming and slitting presses, rotary secondary operation machines and automatic trimming and assembly equipment, the company has introduced a line of inspection equipment. Inspection equipment falls into three different categories, including backpressure back·pres·sure n. Residual pressure opposing the free flow of a gas or liquid, as in a pipe or an exhaust system. testing, leak testing and vision systems. One specialty is making dies for slitting and trimming duck bills and check valves (Mech.) a valve in the feed pipe of a boiler, or other conduit, to prevent the return of the feed water or other fluid. - Knight. See also: Check . Once these items are slit and trimmed, many customers will check the parts by performing a flow test, backpressure test or both on the parts. The slit size can be checked and measured by the amount of airflow allowed through the slit under pressure. The duckbills can then be checked in the opposite direction for the seal rate of the check valve. These tests can be mass or flow tests as per customer specifications. The next type of inspection equipment the company makes includes testing systems to confirm the presence of sealing beads on metal to rubber bonded gaskets after they have been die trimmed, also known as leak testing systems. By pressurizing the rubber bonded gasket in a closed system and then measuring the decline in pressure, it can be determined whether a sealing bead bead Small object, usually pierced for stringing. It may be made of virtually any material—wood, shell, bone, seed, nut, metal, stone, glass, or plastic—and is worn or affixed to another object for decorative or, in some cultures, magical purposes. is cracked, crushed or just not present. Along with testing the seals, the company can confirm the presence of limiters and mounting brackets. Customers are said to find that the rubber required by the automotive manufacturers is so strong that the rubber will wear out a tear trim groove in the mold on a high production part at an alarming rate. At that point, they can rework re·work tr.v. re·worked, re·work·ing, re·works 1. To work over again; revise. 2. To subject to a repeated or new process. n. the mold, tell the operator to pick up a pair of scissors scissors Cutting instrument or tool consisting of a pair of opposed metal blades that meet and cut when the handles at their ends are brought together. Modern scissors are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends , or run the part through a trim die and not have to work on the mold again. Pull trimming a worn tier trim groove can result in rubber becoming debonded from the metal gasket and causing a leak path that would not be detectable to the human eye. Any nicks into the sealing bead from the above operations will also cause the gasket to fail the test. The third type of inspection system is vision-measuring equipment that is said to assure part quality. Altman Manufacturing Circle 88 on card |
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