Wire harness automation

In today’s global economy, automation is essential for wire harness manufacturers in providing uniformity and consistency that can ensure product quality. While many aspects of the wire harness production still involve manual assembly, one vital step in wire harness assembly can be accomplished efficiently through automated equipment and processes. Cutting, crimping, and stripping machines offer high speed & reliable solutions for wire harness manufacturers. The machines can cut wire to length, easily strip both ends, apply the pins and perform pull-force testing as established in the pre-setup program.

Why Automate?
The capability to perform wire and cable processing by utilizing fully automated machinery to cut, strip, and terminate wires and cables is efficient and cost-effective. The process ensures precision and high repeatability necessary for stripping with different insulation materials, and in achieving consistent cutting quality and dimensional accuracy for processed conductors. The prime benefits of such automated solutions is the reduction of labor hours to assemble harnesses, an increase in productivity, and cutting wire-related failures by half. But there is more...

Automation is about combining control systems and technology to replace continuous human physical and mental labor in assembly and engineering, allowing human interaction to be applied to more creative, innovative, operational, and technical processes. Automation benefits manufacturers in applications where a high degree of precision and accuracy is required. 

Quality Control
Automated cutting, stripping, and crimping machines offer process monitoring that optimizes quality control while components are being made. Monitoring is fully integrated into the system—crimp force monitoring, seal monitoring, splice monitoring, as well as a detection system to monitor for wire end and knots—even comprehensive sorting of the good from bad components. The system performs at high speed, with efficiency and reliability, and ensures that all processes of cutting, stripping and terminating are to exact specification. Fully automated crimping machines are also capable of twisting and tinning wires to a wide range of lengths and cross sections, and perform processing options such as full tinning, or tip tinning.