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Aerotech has been satisfying the production and R&D motion needs of automotive manufacturers and parts suppliers for decades.

Fuel Injector Machining
To achieve higher performance engines with lower emissions requires precision manufacturing of the fuel injection system, specifically the repeatable, precision machining of the fuel injector. Aerotech has long been involved in the development and manufacturing of high performance, multi-axis systems to manufacture fuel injectors and other automotive parts.

Welding
Aerotech has been installing controllers since 1970 at major automotive suppliers to achieve high-quality welding in a flexible manufacturing process.

SENSOR TESTING
As the demand for reliable and high-performance onboard sensors increases, so do the testing requirements of the sensors. For over 30 years Aerotech has built many testing subsystems for air-bag sensors, fuel-metering systems, wheel testing systems, and CMM for auto-body measurement with touch probes.

PAINTING
Auto-body painting requires the coordination of high axis-counts with complex trajectories while maintaining smooth, high-speed motions on the assembly line. Aerotech has supplied automotive painting subsystems that coordinate high-axis counts to meet these challenges. You can store multiple body styles in memory, facilitating body style switching on the fly for scalability and performance. Our high-speed motion and trajectory synchronization capability provides precision movement over the profile and contour of the auto body while moving on a conveyor.

Cam Grinding
Cam grinding has been a core application of CNC machines for decades. Electronic Cam Profiling is a standard, built-in function that defines motion in CAM tables. Multiple cam part profiles (with large tables) can be stored in a single A3200 for fast changeover time. Mirror quality surface finish results from our real-time cubic curve-fitting function that interpolates position between points. Preprogrammed individual lobe profiles can be ground to exact tolerances in one operation.

High-Speed Windshield Glass Edge Grinder
High-speed glass edge grinding machine applications will take part data in X, Y coordinates and transform them into an R, q format and store this directly in the axis servo-processor memory.

Shock Absorber Testing
Aerotech high force (over 4500 N peak) linear motors have been used for testing shock absorbers to understand their response to road conditions.

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