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Cleco CellTek Launch

Cleco’s advanced tool and assembly solutions enhance user experience and increase productivity, providing powerful results for your company. They leverage new technology to increase tool accuracy, traceability, ergonomics, and safety. As a leading tool manufacturer, Cleco offers trusted tool solutions across numerous industries. Whether your company constructs high-tech automobiles, assembles planes for leading aviation projects, produces appliances, or builds earthmoving equipment, you can count on Cleco Production Tools for intelligent assemblies and world-class tools.

Cleco is very excited to present the future of connectivity, CellTek, part of our growing line-up of cordless electric tightening tools. Check out the CellTek experience!

 

 

Cleco CellTek Brochure

 

Cleco CellTek Brochure

 

Cleco CellTek Brochure

 

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Cleco CellTek Truck Tour Visits High Point

 

We’d like to Thank Cleco Production Tools for visiting our High Point Branch this past week! Our team had a blast learning about the latest innovations in assembly tools from Cleco.

 

 

Feel the Future of Connectivity: Designed to enable the Smart Factory of Tomorrow, Cleco introduces the most advanced cordless nutrunner, CellTek. CellTek Cordless Assembly Tools bring superior connectivity, with the most reliable real-time synchronization with manufacturing and engineering systems. Designed to ensure safety-critical assembly with best-in-class accuracy, CellTek is also the fastest cordless assembly tools in its class.

 

 

 

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FlexArm Torque Arms with Cleco Tools

 

 Air Power Application Specialist Jerome Wood along with FlexArm Regional Sales Manager Tyler Albert showcase how FlexArm torque reaction arms and custom tool mounts work flawlessly with Cleco® tools to create simple ergonomic solutions for any workspace. Featured in this demo are the Cleco® NeoTek™ 30 Series right-angle tool and pistol grip, DOGA DMFi telescoping arms, and linear and articulating torque reaction arms.

 

 

Assembly Solutions for Aerospace Industry

Ingersoll Rand Aerospace Industry

 

Ingersoll Rand Aerospace Industry

 

Contact your Air Power Account Manager today to improve your process with Ingersoll Rand!

 

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Ingersoll Rand Controller paired with FlexArm

 

Air Power Technical Specialist James Stanley demonstrates the capabilities of an Ingersoll Rand InsightQC Controller paired with a FlexArm Smart Arm with DOGA DPC Touchscreen allowing the operator to enter sequence patterns quickly and efficiently. Visit us at airpower-usa.com or call us at 1(800) 334-1001 to hear more about this system!

Clamping with QX

Manufacturing defects are expensive and removing these errors prior to equipment leaving the production floor is an achievable result when utilizing the proper assembly equipment.  In the below case study, implementing proper tooling resulted in a significant reduction in warranty, service work, and recalls.

Customer

A global manufacturer of grain and sugar cane harvesters located within the Southeastern United States.

 

Challenge: Warranty, Service Work, and Recalls

During the manufacturing process; a sub assembly cell was responsible for proper tightening of fluid hose clamps.  The specified torque and angle of these hose clamps was not being achieved by current in plant tooling.  This failure was a direct result of joint conditioning and relaxation associated with the hose clamp tightening process.  In order to confirm clamps were properly tightened a manual QC measure was put into place in order to catch the issue prior to units leaving for in field use.   However, manual processes are reliant on operator execution and improperly tightened units continued to leave the production floor incorrect.  This issue was exaggerated once units reached final destinations for use within the field, as inadequate torqued hose clamps, were continuing to loosen causing costly warranty, recall, and infield technician repairs.

Air Power’s Solution

In partnership with the customer, Air Power implemented an Ingersoll Rand QX Precision fastening System. The hand held, battery operated, transducerized tooling solution provided an accurate final torque, while providing the operators with tightening status feedback, actual torque values, and 1,200 rundowns of tightening data for review.  A proper torque strategy was developed allowing the hose clamp to be properly torqued, relaxed (conditioned), then final torqued; all within a single trigger pull delivered by the operator.  The need for a manual QC measure was removed as the torque data was verified, tracked, and retained by the manufacturing facility for spot check and validation.

 

Ingersoll Rand QX Series Right Angle Wrench

Result

Currently, thirteen (13) right angle tools are being utilized within this facility allowing production to reach new heights of process control.  Proper tightening of the hose clamps, torque data retention, and date/time stamping have reduced warranty, service work, and those costly infield technician repairs.  The Air Power solution ensures that product leaving the production floor is assembled correctly, the first time.