EJOT UK’s team of industrial application engineers will be exhibiting the company’s portfolio of high performance thread-forming fastening products and giving hands-on demonstrations of the company’s solutions based service, at the forthcoming Automechanika exhibition in June followed by MENE in July.
Automechanika comes to the UK for the first time and is being hosted at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre from June 7th to 9th. The EJOT team will occupy Stand 10J21 and will use the exhibition to demonstrate how EJOT fastening products have made a significant contribution to the automotive sector’s directive to achieve co2 targets by the year 2021.
Car manufacturers have looked to light metals and alloys to provide weight reduction as part of the overall effort. And whilst such materials have provided an answer in terms of the weight to strength ratio, the challenge has been to find ways of achieving high strength joints between these lighter materials.
EJOT has a range of highly advanced products that can be engineered to solve a multitude of joining scenarios, for many different engineering materials. Whilst each solution is application specific, EJOT products share the capability to rationalise the number of components in an assembly, reduce time and costs – while creating a high strength joint.
Engineers engaged in the Body-In-White area of weight reduction will want to bookmark the following fastening products, already found in countless automotive applications around the world:
EJOT ALtracs Plus: Direct assembly into cast holes
EJOT SHEETtracs: Secure joints into thin sheet metal via pilot hole.
EJOT FDS: High strength sheet metal joints with no pilot hole
Most significantly, the EJOT team will be running live installation demonstrations of the FDS screw, alongside the Group’s most recent and groundbreaking development in light weight construction:
EJOT EJOWELD: Joining light weight materials to thin sheet boron steel
Five years in development with one of the world’s largest automotive manufacturers, the EJOWELD process is arguably the most positive response to market demands for lighter vehicles. The EJOWELD system joins light-weight alloys, to thin sheet boron steel of up to 1800 megapascals, using a sophisticated friction-weld process. Such materials cannot be secured by traditional methods – the key is two specially developed EJOT components; a pin (CFP) for single sided fixing, and a component friction fastener (CFF)for double sided access.
From the first axial load application, the EJOT component reacts to high revolutions by penetrating through the top material layer, then under-filling the two materials as one.
Design Engineers engaged in the Body-In-White development process will be able to see first hand the science behind this process on a specially constructed demonstration rig.
Working with first tier automotive OEMs
EJOT’s fastening technology is prevalent throughout first tier manufacture and supply. Here the company has developed several products that are key to supporting the use of plastics and foams to achieve light weight vehicle assemblies.
EJOT Delta PT: Direct assembly for thermoplastics
Delta PTP: Direct assembly for unreinforced plastics
EJOT EPPsys: Fastening systems for expanded polypropylene
Foamed components are obviously integral to the overall steer towards lighter vehicles.
In response to this, the EJOT® EPPsys- or EPP System - has been developed to fasten assembly parts to foamed components, typically expanded polypropylene (EPP). As part of a broad application-specific product range, EJOT has developed the EPPsys RSD – a unique boss that provides highly effective fastening for EPP foams and honeycomb elements via a friction-welding process, that leaves the product embedded within the EPP foam. By creating an incredibly strong joining system, the expanded use of such lighter weight foams is now a practical and cost-effective reality.
Project Management and technical support – from concept to post-production
Comprehensive application engineering services are supported by sophisticated forecasting and prognosis software that provides designers with accurate data on product performance that results in accurate implementation all the way through to production.
To learn more of EJOT’s current areas of development visit the team at these forthcoming shows.
