ASM and HighTaiX design and manufacture special machines: production machines with industrial robots, automatic or semi-automatic. Applications include automotive, medical, industrial perfumery, and aerospace.

Automated assembly line for thermostatic control housings

For a client in the Rhône region, ASM designed a custom 9-station assembly line, which assembles control boxes for the automotive industry, from the thermostatic kit to the unit packaging, with leak testing and laser marking.

The need: to assemble a complex, waterproof and traceable product

The casing combines many components (segments, springs, capsules, seals, clip) and must be perfectly sealed.

The solution: 9 stations linked together

  • Assembly of thermostatic kits: segments and elements in their capsules, then springs
  • Welding of capsule caps
  • Assembly of the throttle, centering device, and capsule in the housing, including fitting the gaskets and securing with clips.
  • Internal and external leak testing
  • Laser marking for identification
  • Unit packaging

Technical specifications

  • 9 assembly and inspection stations
  • Internal and external leak testing, laser marking
  • Confidential Cadence
  • Four relieved operators
  • 2018

See also: Semi-automatic line for thermal control boxes · Automation for the automotive industry