PolyGrip® offers high flexibility
20 July 2016
GESIPA® Blindniettechnik GmbH boasts that its PolyGrip® blind rivet nut shows the highest flexibility out of its entire range of blind rivet nuts and covers an extremely large grip range — helping to reduce the number of parts used in production.
What makes a blind rivet nut such a smart product is that it can be set ‘blindly’ using a threaded rivet body, which means that the user only needs access to one side of the workpiece for installation. A blind rivet nut can produce safe and reliable threads even in very thin sheets and soft materials. Also, further parts can be screwed in without any problem. In principle, it is possible to rivet material first and then screw it together. The blind rivet nut is ideally suited for producing threads in hollow profiles.
For setting blind rivet nuts GESIPA® offers a wide selection of different setting tools, from hand tools to the battery powered setting tools of the FireBird® series and pneumatic setting tools of the innovative FireFox® series.
Once the blind rivet nut has been drilled on the tool, it can be set into the prepared drill hole on the workpiece. When using FireBird and FireFox tools, drilling on and drilling off, as well as the setting itself, are fully automated processes. Now GESIPA also offers the FireFox series with a setting process monitoring option.
Special safety for special products
In the automotive industry processes in the production and installation of airbags, belt restraint systems and child seats have been monitored successfully and efficiently for years. Now, however, setting process monitoring plays a major
role in many other industrial production processes. Technology has been further enhanced and developed and guarantees the right fasteners are set in the right place and in the right quantity in all applications where quality is of utmost importance. In addition, it can be checked that the correct workpieces are used.
This method is now also available for monitoring processes when setting blind rivet nuts in industrial applications. The WinTech technology allows the user to define up to three windows for analysis and to store the data. The process is immediately stopped once the slightest irregularity is detected. Only after the customer has acknowledged the malfunction can the process be continued. This means human error is more or less impossible.
