Our assembly department currently assembles 4-6 different parts. We currently assembly o-rings, VHB seals, electrical contactors, rubber bumpers, balls, pins, loop sleeves and nylon coated steel cables. Once the components are assembled into the parts we make our assemblers grease, stake, press and crimp the parts in place to create the finished part. To help with the efficiency we have a tool maker on staff. This journeyman tool maker has decades of experience making fixtures and devising ways to fit parts together efficiently.

The top image to the left shows an automated assembly machine. The bowl feeder feeds to a track which drops a part we've machined into the turn table. A collet closes and it moves to the next position. Here a ball drops into the hole/ID. Next, the collet rotates the part until a locating eye locates the cross hole and it stops so a pin can be pressed into the cross hole. It moves to the final station where the hole is staked so that the pin cannot come out. Finally, the part is ejected.

The bottom image to the left is an example of a hand assembly process.

An electrical contactor is set into the ID of a part that we make. Then a rubber bumper is inserted to hold the electrical contactor in place. Then the assembler cuts a 7" section of black teflon coated wire and crimps a steel sleeve on to one end. The other end of the cable is threaded through the other end of the loop sleeve and this cable is placed around a groove and crimped together using the fixture below. These parts are all packed in plastic trays to protect the final product during shipping.