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| High Velocity press applications produced under Netronics patents are being used by many of the world's largest, best known corporations. |
Delphi currently uses Netronics technology in over 100 electromagnetic press systems to punch an oil drain hole, in-line, in all their valve lifter bodies. Precision and productivity were dramatically increased as these holes were previously drilled off line by conventional, slow acting, hydraulic presses. The new Delphi presses run 24-7 and Delphi has now purchased additional presses using Netronics technology for their production line in Germany.
Eveready Battery purchased 3 Lourdes Press Systems for use in their St. Albans flashlight plant in Vermont. Eveready needed to replace a critical part that had a precision 90 degree bend that was being made off-line with a part that was made in-line. This allowed the use of less costly material and eliminated a very costly vibratory bowl feed system as well as an operator for each machine. To get this contract, Lourdes had to build the complete system including tooling.
RJF International Corporation is manufacturers engineered polymer products for select specialty markets. RJF's success formula combines accumulated industry "know-how," strong research and development, quality control, manufacturing expertise, and most importantly, a high level of customer sensitivity and service.
RJF International had developed a system that could punch 1800 holes per stroke in a soft plastic used for battery insulators but due to material softness, the original mechanical presses posed the requirement that all production be done in the winter months, when the plastic was hardened by the cold. An additional production handicap was the frequent sharpening the cutting tool required. By switching to high velocity presses employing Netronics technology, manufacturing could continue throughout the year (softness of the material was no longer an issue due to the ability of the high velocity press to cut cleanly through soft material) and tool life improved by more than 20 times.
Netronics technology was used for two projects at ITW Fastec in Chicago. The first project involved automating a line to produce electrical contacts that were inserted into a lamp socket. The parts were being produced in a standard 4-up tool, cleaned, deburred and then heat-treated. The finished contacts were then delivered to an insertion station where a vibratory bowl oriented the contacts for insertion into a lamp socket. The Lourdes line stamped the parts from pre-hardened stock. Two small presses mounted on the table fed the finished contacts via a chute to an actuator that inserted the contacts automatically. The cleaning, deburring, heat-treating, material handling and vibratory bowls were eliminated.
The second project was for the ITW Cronomatic division. An in-line press system was developed to make connectors that were delivered to a fully automated automotive mirror line. Cronamatics, due to the ling too life, was able to dismantle their in-house press lines and converted all their lines to integrated Netronics technology press systems.
The abrasive nature of green ceramic severely limits the life of tools and necessitates frequent tool changes. Netronics technology allowed Coors to not only punch cleaner holes but to greatly extend tool life.
Automated packaging lines. Punched holes in plastic packages.
Bumper Specialties, Inc. manufactures self adhesive, 100% polyurethane bumpers with technologically advanced equipment in an ultra-modern manufacturing plant. Netronics technology is employed in their automated kiss cut lines.
GE Aircraft Engines (GEAE) is the world's leading manufacturer of jet engines for civil and military aircraft, including engines produced by CFM International, a 50/50 joint company of Snecma of France and GE. GE Canada has called upon Netronics technology to help product precision parts for their jet engines.
High performance lamination stamping.
Burr-free shearing of photo sensitive aluminum litho plates.
Stamping Copper-Glue-Kapton composite laminate in a press that has engines on both sides, therefore reducing vibration dramatically.
Teledyne Technologies designs and manufactures electronics, instrumentation, communication, and propulsion products, and provides advanced engineering services to a variety of customers around the world. Teledyne employs Netronics technology for in-line press systems used to form and singulate parts in connector lines.
For over 8o years, we have engineered processes and designed tooling to produce seemingly impossible parts for companies worldwide. Many times we are selected for critical projects because other companies said that the job could not be done...that the tolerances could not be held...that the process could not be controlled... or, as is often the case, because other manufacturers had attempted the job and failed. That is why Hobson & Motzer people are called quality-critical craftsmen... because they see every part as critical, and bring a "can do" attitude to every job.
For Becton Dickinson, a medical technology company that manufactures and sells a broad range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products, Hobson Motzer has employed Netronics technology in stamping details and cutting to length parts in a plastic extrusion process.
Three systems.
Stamping composite laminate material for the Indiglo illuminated watch dials.
Argonne is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest research centers. It is also the nation's first national laboratory, chartered in 1946. Argonne is a direct descendant of the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory, part of the World War Two Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb before the Nazis did. It was at the Met Lab where, on Dec. 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and his band of about 50 colleagues created the world's first controlled nuclear chain reaction in a squash court at the University of Chicago. After the war, Argonne was given the mission of developing nuclear reactors for peaceful purposes. Over the years, Argonne's research expanded to include many other areas of science, engineering and technology.
Today, with more than 4,000 employees, including about 1,400 scientists and engineers, of whom about 700 hold doctorate degrees, Argonne use Netronics technology to cut spent nuclear fuel rods inside a hot fuel cell environment.
Tyco Electronics offers a broad range of high quality electronic component products. In order to make precision cuts of wire — on the fly — Tyco employs Netronics technology in a special 3-phase IGBT press control system.
TRW Automotive is one of the world's leading suppliers of occupant restraint systems and a pioneer in development and integration of air bag, seat belt, steering wheel and crash sensor technologies. TRW Automotive now uses Netronics technology to fully automate the stamping and forming of air bag explosive canisers.
Sony zero clearance systems use Netronics technology to cut floppy disk parts.
As today's technologies have advanced, clean no longer simply means low particulates and residue-free removability. Today Brady Clean ID labels also feature the lowest levels of outgassing, ionic contamination, and total extractable tin. To reach an even higher standard of precision, Brady now employs Netronics technology for in-line label production.
Every 5 seconds Pratt & Whitney-powered aircraft takes off somewhere in the world. Now Netronics high velocity press technology is being used by Pratt & Whitney to manufacture mission critical jet engine parts.
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