60 years of production in Germany
24 July 2015
GESIPA Blindniettechnik GmbH has recently opened the doors to its demonstration centre, at its Mörfelden-Walldorf headquarters in Germany, to demonstrate the performance and efficiency of its blind riveting technology.
GESIPA has been developing and producing innovative and high-quality blind rivet setting tools, as well as blind rivets and blind rivet nuts, for 60 years.
During this time, blind riveting technology has become an integral part of automobile production. Today, an estimated number of up to 650 blind rivets and blind rivet nuts are set when building a passenger car. GESIPA points out that the most unbeatable advantage of blind riveting technology has always been the possibility of connecting components with one-sided accessibility, and the option to monitor and store setting processes.
For this purpose, a demonstration centre was built which only recently opened its doors to customers and potential buyers. The centre demonstrates the performances of GESIPA’s innovative product portfolio and the entire know-how relating to blind riveting technology. Attractions to the centre are the latest generations of AccuBird® Pro and PowerBird® Pro Gold Edition, and the GAV 8000 HF, which is robot controlled and several metres high.
Just like in a real production plant, the robot has a range of approximately 2 metres and is able to set blind rivets of up to 8mm in diameter and 35mm in length – fully automatically, from any possible angle. In addition to a wide range of hydro-pneumatic setting tools for blind rivets and blind rivet nuts, the demonstration centre also shows the tool types of the new GESIPA® Speed Rivet Technology. These tools can either be operated manually or as axial versions, which can also be installed in production lines or workstations. They are lightweight, easy to handle and reliable.
“GESIPA’s headquarters operates a certified quality management system complying with the requirements of DIN EN ISO 9001 and ISO TS 16949. It is outstanding because of the various programmes it applies, such as Lean management, Kaizen and 5S and because of its close development cooperation with selected colleges and universities.”
