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News Release from: PEI-Genesis
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 April 2006
Conveyor oven speeds connector assembly
Connector distributor PEI-Genesis has replaced three static ovens with a new Caltherm conveyor oven at its European headquarters facility in Basingstoke.
Connector distributor PEI-Genesis has replaced three static ovens with a new Caltherm conveyor oven at its European headquarters facility in Basingstoke The new oven has enabled the company to eliminate occasional bottlenecks in the heat-curing phase of its assembly process, thereby increasing the efficiency of the whole operation
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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As an assembling distributor, PEI-Genesis stocks thousands of piece-parts for a wide range of connectors, and ovens are required to cure the adhesive that bonds contacts into inserts and the inserts themselves into connector shells.
Most products are assembled within 48 hours, so any holdups in the process can have a potentially significant impact on throughput and delivery times.
"The old static ovens had to be kept closed for an hour while the adhesive was cured", commented Operations Manager, Tony Houghton, "and this sometimes caused bottlenecks in the assembly process".
"With the new conveyor oven, we now have a level flow through the heat-curing phase, and the entire process is more efficient".
The bespoke variable-speed oven is 8.5m-long and 900mm wide - a larger dimension than standard versions - which enables four tote boxes to be accommodated across the width of the conveyor and provides room for future expansion of production capacity.
The use of heat-resistant paperwork and customised glass-fibre tote boxes means that, even during a one-hour pass through the conveyor oven at 163C, the parts and paperwork for each order are never separated throughout the assembly process. Request free introductory details about products from PEI-Genesis ...
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