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“An automatic system allows to place 45 rivets/min, when an operario can place between 5 and 10/min”

Interview to Christian Meissner, general director of Gesipa

Esther Güell23/07/2012

With the look put in the horizon, and looking for turn into the greater European manufacturer of rivets, nuts remachables, riveters pneumatics and riveters automatic, Gesipa has an important number of patents of destined German technology to a big variety of industrial states. His aim is to cater to the companies of total solutions of fixation, basing in the remache blind —or remache type pop— without forgetting the high technology. Result of this combination is a system of remachado automatic that allows to reduce the times of work considerably. Christian Meissner, general director of Gesipa, explains us his competitive advantages.

In the past BIEMH could see in situ the system of remachado automatic of Gesipa. It can explain us what contributes with regard to the manual systems?

The system of remachado automatic GAV 8000 of Gesipa supposes an increase of productivity very important when deleting entirely the manipulation of the remache.

The fact to be an automatic system allows to place 45 rivets by minute when an operario only is able to place between 5-10 by minute in the best conditions.

Besides another advantage is that Gesipa has of different models to adapt us to the needs of the customer by what can work with the system GAV 8000 in way robotizado, way put fixed work operated by a person or in way line of setting in movement operated by a worker and in movement.

“In the actuality are few the OEM situated in Spain that do not have of a system of remachado automatic GAV 7000 or GAV 8000 of Gesipa”, affirms the general director of the signature.

How it controls that the system of remachado work properly?

The system incorporates like main elements a vibrator, a hose of feeding of rivets, a hose of expulsion of vástagos and a gun of remachado. All these components manufacture to measure of the remache and the application to ensure a continuous process without unemployments or atascos, being indispensable to have a remache of quality and some surroundings of suitable work.

Our system incorporates a control of process that in real time indicates us if the remachado has been correct or no. This control of process will detect variations in the process of remachado such like length of remache wrong, material of the remache wrong, taladro of the wrong application or thicknesses to remachar wrong.

The values to determine as wrong are previously parametrizados with the final customer and for a concrete application, achieving in this way guarantee 0 ppm in the process of remachado.

For which processes is more adapted this system?

In our opinion there are three types of processes that are ideal to implant a system of remachado automatic GAV 8000. The first is in those processes where place a big number of rivets and the productivity can see increased of way very important with a system of remachado automatic GAV 8000.

The second process would be those applications designated of hygiene where a control 100% of the process of remachado is necessary. Finally the third process would be that in that it exists a system 100% robotizado where the application of remachado also have to be robotizada.

At present, it can explain us some implantation in Spain?

In the actuality are few the OEM situated in Spain that do not have of a system of remachado automatic GAV 7000 or GAV 8000 of Gesipa and, besides, the tendency in the last years is that the Tier 1 and Tier 2 are entering these systems also in his productive systems.

The novelty to have of a control of process incorporated in the system supposes a value added “and of big importance for the industry of the automotive sector”.

What received has had in the Spanish market? It exists difficulty for his implantation?

The received has been very good and the novelty to have of a control of process incorporated in our system is a value added and of big importance for the industry of the automotive sector. In any case, these systems are investments scheduled that comport a change in the own production of the customer by what the implantations carry a long period.

Where more we can find the system of remachado Gesipa in the international field?

To European level our system of remachado automatic GAV 7000 and GAV 8000 is in practically all the zones with importance in the manufacture of trucks (France, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Italy, etc.). To world-wide level already are presents in EE UU and Chinese with this system by what can say that the system of remachado automatic GAV is a reality to global level and in these moments are in the phase of implantation of systems GAV 8000 with control of process.

In the European field the system of remachado automatic GAV 7000 and GAV 8000 are in practically all the zones with importance in the manufacture of trucks and, in the world-wide field the signature is present in EE UU and China.