Positioning and Welding Pins for the Automobile Industry FRIALIT -DEGUSSIT High-Performance Ceramics
For Greater Perfection & Precision in Car Manufacture: Ceramic-to-metal components fulfill the very highest demands of the metal-working industry. The automobile industry, in particular, relies on the use of positioning and welding pins. And only make such demanding applications feasible. Extreme resilience The automobile industry places high demands on the materials used. These are demands that push the individual materials, metal and ceramics, to their limits. Due to their ideal properties, ceramicto-metal components from FRIATEC are, however, highly impressive. Our FRIALIT-DEGUSSIT High-Performance Ceramics are extremely resistant to heat, corrosion, high voltage and chemical influences. They also have excellent stability of shape and resistance to wear-and-tear, thus longer retaining their functionality. Precision and economy In the automobile industry our materials have become a must. Positioning and welding pins made of FRIALITDEGUSSIT High-Performance Ceramics exactly and precisely align the body parts to be welded, and fix them securely. A vast number of car manufacturers all over the world are highly impressed by our components and now benefit from the advantages of low tool costs, reduced downtimes and minimum maintenance and repair costs. 50 years experience Our products provide you with the benefit of 50 years of experience in the manufacture of ceramics, combined with specialist expertise gained over a period of 40 years in the field of ceramic-to-metal components. Our experts in our internal design department develop optimum solutions using high-performance ceramics for each specific set of requirements. Their orientation is geared towards the needs of the customer, with whom they remain in close contact. The result is ceramicto-metal components to meet the very highest expectations. Photo Porsche DAIMLER AG uses positioning and welding pins PORSCHE AG uses positioning and welding pins AUDI AG uses positioning and welding pins The photo shows locating pins during installation. 50 00 times more durable than steel 50 00 times more durable than steel 50 00 times more durable than steel Tel. +49 6 486-0 Tel. +49 6 486-0 FRIALIT-DEGUSSIT High-Performance Ceramics Positioning and Welding Pins Tel. +49 6 486-0 FRIALIT-DEGUSSIT High-Performance Ceramics Positioning and Welding Pins
Excellent Top marks for our High-Performance Ceramics - Positioning pins made of FRIALIT- DEGUSSIT High-Performance Ceramics ensure exact positioning of the metal sheets. With their outstanding material properties, components made of FRIALIT -DEGUSSIT High-Performance Ceramics have become firmly established in the global automobile industry. The wide range of FRIATEC materials makes it possible to provide precision solutions for the most varied requirements. Both have a lot to offer: Whereas metal is extremely tough, ceramics is hard and corrosion-resistant. Demanding - metal and ceramics - into one single component. Our high-performance ceramic pro- Our customers expect tailor-made solutions for their individual needs and tasks. The comprehensive range of Properties Unit Steel FRIALIT HP 79 Ceramics Si N 4 (black) FRIALIT FZT Ceramics Al O (+ZrO ) (white) DEGUSSIT DD57 Ceramics Al O (red) applications, however, expect all of ducts are extraordinarily resistant to materials available enables us to opti- Density g/cm 7.9 >. 4.05.90 these properties from just one, single high temperatures, wear-and-tear and mally manufacture components accor- Hardness HV 0 GPa 600 000 00 material. corrosion. Together with their breaking ding to customer requirements. The Compressive strength MPa 000 000 000 The development of FRIALIT-DEGUSSIT strength and integrity of shape, their physical material properties listed in the Bending strength MPa 900 460 00 High-Performance Ceramics has made extremely long lifetime makes FRIALIT- table clearly illustrate the potential of E - Modulus GPa 00 0 60 80 it possible to combine the outstanding DEGUSSIT High-Performance Ceramics FRIALT-DEGUSSIT High-Performance Corrosion resistance limited good very good good properties of these individual materials highly convincing. Ceramics. Thermal expansion 0-6 /K. 7.5 8.5 4 FRIALIT-DEGUSSIT High-Performance Ceramics Positioning and Welding Pins FRIALIT-DEGUSSIT High-Performance Ceramics Positioning and Welding Pins 5
Positioning and Welding Pins Wide range of tools for the automobile industry Positioning pins made of FRIALIT-DEGUSSIT High-Performance Ceramics in ceramic rod version: fully tried and tested in terms of breaking and bending strength, even with small centering diameters (under 0 mm). - Welding pins made of High-Performance Ceramics ensure exact positioning of the nuts to be welded onto the metal sheet. The fully automated positioning procedures used in automotive body-shell assembly demand the very highest standards of precision. This explains why so many car manufacturers rely on positioning pins made of FRIALIT -DEGUSSIT High-Performance Ceramics. These fully ensure that all body parts can be welded with exact precision. The car manufacturing industry permits The special arrangement of the cera- at the plant commissioning stage due This saves time-consuming as well as needed. There is virtually no welding benefits from an increased plant life- only low production tolerances. This mic rods has resulted in optimization to early damage to the delicate ceramic cost-intensive plant conversion, from bead adherence on the ceramics, time, as well as from the high quality requirement can easily be met with the of the product characteristics. In this pins during plant set-up. initial set-up through to the production and disruptive metal abrasion has no of the finished product. help of positioning and welding pins way, even components with a small The advantage of using break and phase. chance of developing. In the case of made of FRIALIT-DEGUSSIT High-Per- centering diameter (Ø 0 mm) achieve bend-resistant positioning pins in the In terms of handling, our positioning projection-welding equipment, wel- formance Ceramics. The development a high degree of stability. ceramic rod version is especially obvi- and welding pins made of FRIALIT- ding pins made of FRIALIT-DEGUSSIT of the ceramic rod version has enabled ous in the case of the small centering DEGUSSIT High-Performance Cera- High-Performance Ceramics ensure FRIATEC to again surpass the extreme In the conventional production process diameters described above. They can mics are also most impressive. Thanks that the nuts to be welded can be ex- breaking strength and shape integrity metal bolts had to be fitted as place- be inserted at the very start of set-up to the electrically insulating effect of actly positioned on the metal sheet. of their pins. holders for pins without the rod version and transfer-line arrangement. ceramics no additional insulation is Here again, the manufacturer 6 FRIALIT-DEGUSSIT High-Performance Ceramics Positioning and Welding Pins FRIALIT-DEGUSSIT High-Performance Ceramics Positioning and Welding Pins 7
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