Overview
Engine hoses play crucial role in vehicle performance, facilitating fluid and air flow while enduring extreme temperatures, vibrations, and pressure fluctuations. To ensure durability, these hoses require secure attachment with metal clamps, making the bonding process a critical step in their production.
Universally automotive hose manufacturers rely on Cyanoacrylate adhesive for bonding metal clamps to hose. However, rapid curing of Cyanoacrylate adhesives at room temperature often results in dispensing inefficiencies, significantly impacting both quality and operational efficiency.
Customer Introduction
Producing high-performance engine rubber hoses for various automotive applications, a global manufacturer based at Pune uses Loxeal 43S, a Cyanoacrylate adhesive for joining metal clamp to hose. To ensure consistent quality and service high demand, they had been using a Semi-automatic adhesive dispensing system from a reputed brand since over a decade.
Understanding the Problem
Contrary to expectations, the manufacturer’s investment in their semi-automatic dispensing system on all of their 10 production lines, failed to deliver expected results.
Their existing dispensing system incorporated a diaphragm valve to control the flow of cyanoacrylate adhesive. Due to inherent design limitations of Diaphragm valves, the cyanoacrylate adhesive comes into direct contact with the valve’s internal components and reacts with these parts rapidly causing the adhesive to cure and clog the valve. Result:
In an effort to resolve these recurring challenges and minimize further production losses, the manufacturer sought a reliable and consistent dispensing system.
ADoST Solution
To overcome these challenges the manufacturer partnered with ADoST. Having deep understanding of the special needs of cyanoacrylate adhesive dispensing, the ADoST team introduced the ADoST Pinch Valve. This valve is designed and engineered at ADoST specially to address the challenges posed by Cyanoacrylate adhesives, and it could be integrated with the customer’s existing dispensing system, avoiding replacements of their entire setup.
ADoST Pinch Valve in Operation on Assembly Line – Enhancing Precision & Efficiency
The innovative ADoST Pinch Valve design eliminates all contact between the adhesive and valve components. The cyanoacrylate adhesive travels exclusively through a special tube, isolating the adhesive from atmospheric moisture and preventing curing and clogging within the tube itself, thus completely solving the clogging issues and minimizing downtime and maintenance, providing consistent dispensing performance and a reliable solution to the customer.
Customer Experience
Prior to the implementation, the customer undertook an entire day’s production using ADoST Pinch Valve on one of their high-speed production lines. Following the successful trials, the ADoST Pinch Valve provided a transformative and reliable experience to their production line.
From the initial engagement till the implementation, the ADoST team not just delivered a reliable dispensing solution to customer’s need, effectively solving their challenges but also ensured that the ADoST Pinch Valve can be integrated in their existing set-up.
The customer, recognizing the transformative impact of the ADoST Pinch Valve , ordered it to be deployed on all of their 10 production lines to ensure maximum efficiency.
Conclusion
Integrating the ADoST Pinch Valve transformed the manufacturer’s adhesive dispensing, solving long-standing issues and boosting productivity. Eliminating clogging and downtime, while improving precision, ensured high-quality bonds and minimal waste. This demonstrates how ADoST’s innovative dispensing solutions and technology drives manufacturing efficiency, reduces costs, and strengthens product reliability in high-volume settings.
