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Trelleborg Sealing Solutions product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
May 29, 2007
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has developed manufacturing and surface technologies to maximise manufacturing speeds and minimise downtime
Automated assembly should be easy.
When it comes to automatic insertion of seals though, this is not always the case.
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions works with leading manufacturers of assembly equipment to ensure assembly is as simple as possible.
It has developed manufacturing and surface technologies to maximise manufacturing speeds and minimise downtime, lowering overall production costs.
International seal developer and manufacturer Trelleborg Sealing Solutions, a business area of Trelleborg group, has been working in partnership with leading automated assembly equipment manufacturers such as Ohrmann Montagetechnik in Europe and AMARA in North America, for several years.
Its objective has been to maximise speed and quality when seals are automatically assembled into components.
As manufacturers demand ever-higher velocity and yield, this has made the automatic insertion of seals even more difficult.
Seal developments have focused on optimising the insertion process of seals to make production quicker and more effective, maximising manufacturing speed and minimising downtime to lower overall costs.
First, to ensure effective mounting of seals in automated assembly, seals must have sufficient elasticity and be dimensionally accurate.
But successful insertion of seals is not just about these being perfectly flat and round.
Other parameters must be considered when it comes to the design of the assembly machine itself and the technology behind the seal.
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions and automated assembly equipment designers have concentrated machine and seal development on the following factors to achieve efficient seal mounting: detection systems installed on machines including probes, light barriers and back pressure controls to automatically sense if seals are present; closed assembly tools to avoid applying local stresses to seals during handling which can fracture or tear seals; coating and surface treatment technologies to optimise friction characteristics and to avoid contamination of handling and assembly equipment; specification of packaging, transport and storage to DIN 7716 right up to point of assembly; and recommendation of sealing materials that have sufficient resistance to chemicals and oils along with mechanical properties and slide behaviour suited to the assembly process.
An example of the way Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has co-operated with automated assembly equipment manufacturers is in the identification of the optimum surface treatment of seals for automated assembly.
They worked together with them, undertaking numerous test programmes to solve specific issues, including one with regard to silicone coatings.
Seals are coated with silicone to improve lubrication, which initially gives excellent slide behaviour.
However, over time the silicone dries, friction properties deteriorate and seals tend to stick during assembly.
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions undertook tests, which clearly demonstrated this reduction in properties.
It has also established a coating that achieved similar friction characteristics to the silicone coating when first applied.
Being a dry surface treatment though, no lowering of performance was suffered over time.
In addition, there was no potential contamination of the assembly system from the coating coming off the seals, a tendency with silicone.
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