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Airbag manufacturing facilities

Precision for safety-critical components – Automated airbag manufacturing

AKE technologies is the experienced specialist for assembly systems for the automated production and testing of airbag components .
Especially in this application, the testing component is crucial to ensure absolutely correct assembly of the components and thus vehicle safety.

Fully automated assembly system for assembling, sealing and testing an airbag igniter unit

Plant description

  • Combined component or material feed as bulk material or stored in trays
  • System solution as a rotary indexing table system with various processing stations
  • Automatic assembly of the igniter unit with metering of the propellant charge
  • Automatic dosing of the sealant with UV curing and subsequent overpressure testing
  • Batch-related data acquisition and communication with the process control computer
  • 4.8 seconds cycle time for assembling an airbag igniter unit

Fully automatic testing system for airbag igniters

Plant description

  • Component feed is stored in workpiece carriers, component output is as bulk material and sorted according to test results
  • Integrated pressure chambers for helium injection (45 minutes at 15 bar) with automated workpiece carrier handling
  • System solution as a rotary indexing table system with 4 processing stations
  • Automatic testing of airbag igniters using a helium leak detection system in conjunction with high vacuum
  • Component-related data acquisition and communication with the process control computer
  • 2-second cycle time for testing an airbag igniter