From a small flange for exhaust gas return systems to a single-component head flange for five-cylinder engines, our comprehensive product range covers all conceivable types of flanges and panels.
Flanges and panels business field.
Our flanges and panels.
Case study / Volkswagen AG.
Business field Forming flanges
Case study.
Customer
Volkswagen AG
Product: Forming flanges
Project overview.
Project
Connection joint between turbocharger and exhaust gas system
To dos
Develop manufacturing concept, prototypes, volume production, process monitoring
SOP
2010
Individual parts produced
> 16,000,000 pieces
Project challenge.
- To substitute a forged part
- Material hardening by forming
- Zero-error target
Solution concept.
- Appropriate material cross-sections, machining of just the sealing surface
- Machine concept precisely aligned to the forming flange
- Continual process monitoring by means of structure-borne sound, camera systems and eddy current
Know-how + digitalisation x 16 million parts = zero ppm.
> 16 million
products produced since 2010
32 delivery locations
worldwide
1.4828
Material
0 ppm
Error rate
Case study / Daimler AG.
Business field Flanges
Case study.
Customer
Daimler AG
Product: Flanges
Project overview.
Project
Exhaust manifold flanges
To dos
Component optimisation for non-cutting machining
SOP
2012
Individual parts produced
> 16,000,000 pieces
Project challenge.
- Material 1.4301 in sheet-metal thickness of 10 mm
- Drill-hole diameter only 70% of the sheet-metal thickness
- > For cost reasons, no machining outside the sealing surface
Solution concept.
- Multi-step fine blanking tool
- Daisy-chain grinding process with 100% inspection using camera systems
Creativity & force cleverly combined.
> 16 million
products produced between 2014–18
3 delivery locations
worldwide
1.4301
Material
< 10 ppm
Error rate