Advantages and benefits of the installation of fixations with autoinsertables with presses Haeger

Focusing on its current customer base Haeger, manufacturer of presses for inclusion with more than 10,000 installed machines, it has been the biggest rise in the volume of sales in recent years

"Sales have increased more than doubled in the past 3 years," explains Wouter Kleizen, director of Haeger Europe BV. "This increase is due to better market coverage and best solutions in the machines." We have improved our global networks of distribution in the United States.United States, Europe and Asia. The growth has been generated in all these areas. "In terms of the total volume of sales, Europe is currently our market number one, and Asia is the fastest growing market."

"In the past two years, we have tripled the size of our product development department and we focused on making better machines and more easy to use." All product development is directed towards preparation of machine easier and faster, more intuitive for the user and focused to reduce both the costs of labour and as the control of quality in the areas of inclusion of our clients. Essentially, we want our customers to increase their productivity and quality by replacing their machinery of earliest insertion, by new more automatic solutions. "This is our strategy."

The current inclusion Haeger presses can feed any type and brand of fixations of the market. The introduction of new features in its presses are, for example:

-ability to automatic with multiple vibrating feeding systems.

-detection of the presence of bindings.

-detection of the length of the fixation.

-Quick change tooling solutions.

These machines are accelerating the process of inclusion considerably and to eliminate the costly secondary operations relating to quality controls. Haeger also provides solutions specific custom integration, as well as useful special, for customers that use new or special auto-insertables fixations.

"During the past two years our design Department of inclusion has been focused on solutions to reduce the handling of the parts needed." Meanwhile, also have done faster and easier to install both on the machines as the tooling ".""In addition, we have developed solutions to automatically feed the auto-insertables bindings and to automatically change the tools in the machine".

"The biggest for the majority of customers obstacle is to get their workers to work effectively with these solutions." Thus, we try to change our current preparation of machine, software, and the useful automatic so that operators installed the tools easier and more quickly. As in the field of the punching machines and laser, the attention has focused on the increase in daily production. "Not merely to increase the speed of the hammer or the servo, but also providing solutions for a preparation of machine faster and easier, with programming offline and looking for solutions for unique and/or automated handling of the pieces."

Wouter Kleizen believes that currently the departments of inclusion in the workshops of the clients can generate greater savings and be more effective than more prominent areas such as centres of bending, punching or laser cutting.

"The cost savings of working hours which are obtained by the fact of install plug-in auto bindings in a way much more effective is often the greater potential reducing costs for our customers". "Usually we find ourselves in situations where the savings of working piece time is greater than the cost of the bindings..."Clients who manage this fact will be able to distinguish themselves from others. "Many of our clients already they have automated folding and mounted systems for loading and unloading their punching machines and lasers and have taken steps to automate their production to achieve further reductions in their costs."

"However, it is in the area of insertion of the hardware which can really make a difference, in terms of greater savings in costs and more effectively, and is traditionally an area that has not benefited from much investment." Customers can become a profitable Center area of inclusion, and increase the productivity and quality control, carried out by the purchase of new machines of inclusion at a relatively low cost which will drastically reduce the costs of working and improve quality control. "It is an investment with a cost much lower that the systems of automation of punching machines and laser and percentage increases in productivity that are often be higher..."

"The majority of our customers in Europe and the United States are still using conventional Haeger machines." We want customers to switch to more capable, more user-friendly versions. To this end, we have worked hard to make our products easier to use and much more productive and to inform our customers that is what it is, how it can work with them and how much money are losing every day", when they are inserted in a conventional way."

Haeger was created in the United States.UU. in 1979 by the engineer, Virgil Haeger. Thirty years ago, in Silicon Valley, appeared plug-in auto fixations on the market of the United States.UU. Companies such as IBM and Intel began to design chassis sheet metal with this new style of fixations auto insert inside to set up your electronics. Sheet metal contractors needed a solution to insert these bindings in the chassis and Virgil Haeger, convinced engineer, saw an opportunity to develop a solution - this developed the press's inclusion of Haeger.

Philips Corporation, a family business of the United States dedicated to the distribution of machine tool, bought Haeger in 1983. He developed a national distribution network for the press, and promoted the redefinition of the machine tool. In 1997, he decided to create a European headquarters to mount a more focused network distributors and Haeger Europe BV was born in 1998. Now has more than 35 distributors throughout Europe, with the last members of the Eastern and Central Europe (Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia).

"The main market that we serve is the electronics for example, for the telecommunications and machine industries vending (vending)," explains w. Kleizen. "This followed by the components for the automotive sector and applications high-end (e.g. LCD/PDP screens and high precision products)".

"There is a trend defined towards the increase of the continued use of electronics." See how many electronics are currently being in the car... Even smaller machines or in the household appliances, eventually will have a screen (i.e., more electronics inside). On the other hand, the teams are smaller. This means an overall increase in the use of plug-in auto bindings that allow to mount the electronics inside the chassis plate. All these pieces include a more large variety of fixations in the interior, as well as an increase in the total number of used fixations. This is due to increasingly electronic is being installed in a same chassis. "I also anticipate continuing development of new types of fixations - a greater variety of fixations within the same range metric and unified".

Kleizen also provides for the increased use of aluminium, certain types of steels (such as the of high strength) and magnesium (for the production of automotive).

Kleizen also points out that the continued rise in the cost of raw materials will lead to the need to manufacture more and (always) and each of the pieces correctly and the first and thus reduce the percentage of patchwork (waste) to zero. In response to this, Haeger has adapted its products to reduce the chance that operators can damage parts during handling, to eliminate the inclusion of fixations of incorrect length, by virtually eliminating the installation of fixations in the wrong place and notify the operators that lack any fixation.

"In addition to improvements in quality of a single manipulation of the piece, it also works as the main reason for increased productivity" commented w. Kleizen. "Most of our customers are still riding the same piece multiple times, with multiple different preparations of machine, or on multiple machines." Now, we offer a unique manipulation of the piece which is much more efficient. "Less manipulation of the piece (single handling of the piece) on a single computer by a single operator (or by a robot) reduces the possibility of damage or grate the piece at the same time that eliminates errors during the process."

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Changes of equipment in two minutes, automatic change of tools, the diversity of the new and special tools and solutions of automated / robotic programming offline (from Office) further enhance the offerings of the product.

New products include tools with platform multi-lanzadera, 824 WindowTouch-3 model with the version 2 (TIS2) turret and models 824 OneTouch-3 with or without automated manipulation of pieces. Haeger has developed a robotic cell of inclusion of six-axis programming that allows complete off-line. W Kleizen sees a great future in automation of manipulation of the piece in the area of insertion and illustrates how the improvements of the product can actually affect the outcome.

"The model 824 One Touch, we have this model since 2002, redistribute it twice, in 2005 and 2006, and made a series of changes in the software and the tool changing system." In 2007, we sold more machines of this model that had sold at least six years. So, as customers are beginning to see the advantages and ease of use, they opt for a solution that can help them... "A press of inclusion must never be too complicated..."