TPT May 2009

P roduction & P rocessing of A utomotive T ube

Special units for hydraulic drilling and automotive tube transfer

Menegon Ennio sas, Italy, is the manufacturer of special units for hydraulic drilling and cutting, and tube/component transfer. Designed for the automotive industry, the equipment offers specialist functions such as scallop cutting, shearing, and drilling with radial pass and linear units. With advanced R&D capabilities, the company is also a specialist in the production of complex stainless steel moulds. In addition to the automotive industry, the equipment is used in the fields of food production, appliances, construction, furniture and agriculture. The company’s lines are used for automotive production, offering functions such as scallop cutting, shearing, folding and tracing. The machine is divided into nine stations with different productive cycles. These stations include departure point, single perforation, double sided perforation, control and cleaning of holes, tablet insertion and folding, calibration, branding, control and unloading. Menegon also offers a special unit for hydraulic drilling of tube and sheet. This machine provides scallop cutting, shearing of straight and inclined tubes, folding, and drilling tubes with a radial pass and linear unit. Features include high quality, advanced parts, hydraulic operation without springs during closing and extraction, and low maintenance. The addition of more units is easy due to the modular system. The blocking of pieces to drill is guaranteed by the mechanical closing of the dies, with accurate movement

 Menegon’s automotive production line for cutting, shearing and folding

and automatic centering of the material. The closing of dies is interchangeable and the machines allow the drilling of tubes up to 30mm in diameter (with 90° rotation). The functioning principle guarantees mechanical extraction of pieces because the punch completely re-enters in the same position while the dies are in position. Menegon Ennio sas – Italy Fax : +39 0424 570880 Email : menegonennio@gmail.com Automated non-destructive testing systems NDT Technologies Inc, Canada, is the manufacturer of a range of automated non-destructive testing systems, precision measuring and material handling. The company has launched an automotive engine cylinder liner flaw detector. The inspection system is designed for offline detection of internal and external flaws in automotive engine cylinder liners. The system uses the eddy current flaw detection method for the detection of micro-cracks, surface imperfections and sub-surface flaws. Defective parts are diverted to the reject chute. NDT Technologies has also introduced an automotive hollow shaft flaw detector. The Eddytron TM is designed to inspect aluminium steering column casting for internal surface flaws in the body, and in the hydraulic seal seat chamber. The casting is used for power steering applications in automotive industry. Due to the operational importance and highly complex geometric shape of the cast part, stringent quality control parameters need to be implemented. The system provides electronic evaluation of changes in eddy currents (due to imperfections) that are present on material surfaces. The method is sensitive to changes in distance between the probe and the material, requiring a high level of manufacturing precision on the probe guidance system. Flaws as small as 0.2mm deep can be detected. In order to achieve test consistency, calibration speci- mens containing artificial flaws of known dimensions are supplied. NDT Technologies Inc – Canada Fax : +1 514 457 7652 • Email : info@ndt.ca • Website : www.ndt.ca

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