VDL Pinnacle India
Plot no-302 Sector 7 Road, MIDC Sector 2 Industrial Area, MIDC Bhosari, Pimpri Chinchwad 411026 Pune India
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Plot no-302 Sector 7 Road, MIDC Sector 2 Industrial Area, MIDC Bhosari, Pimpri Chinchwad 411026 Pune India
Almost 80% of welding in a body shop is primarily spot welding, thereby making it the most important joining technology in the passenger vehicle & commercial vehicle manufacturing process. The team at VDL Pinnacle has enormous experience in body shop applications, mainly spot welding. With technical expertise & know-how of setting up multiple assembly lines, our team is capable of providing high quality tools & automation systems, yet simple solutions which help in saving space, cost & installation time.
The strength of our team lies in designing high-volume robotic lines as well as manual spot welding lines with project turn-around times as low as 3 months in specific cases. The knowledge of design & controls standards of almost all global & domestic OEM’s makes the mechanical & controls design stage much faster & efficient. The lines where VDL Pinnacle has supplied systems includes Front Floor, Rear Floor, Long Rail, Rear Wall, Front Underbody, Rear Underbody, Side Wall, Closures & Main lines including toy-tabbing & Main Framing stations
No closure line is complete without the process of hemming. The process of robotic roller hemming might be simple & straight-forward to look at, but involves a lot of technical knowledge & expertise in order to pull off a superior quality end product.
The most important parameters for designing a hemming system are flange recommendation study, flange height information, number of passes, material of the hemming bed, surface area of contact & cycle time study.
Our team has a vast experience of working on multi-model robotic roller hemming cells for passenger vehicles & commercial vehicles. Turnkey supply scope includes design, manufacturing, assembly, installation, programming, commissioning & quality prove-out.
A seemingly complex process, arc welding is made simple by VDL Pinnacle engineers. With high competence & experience in delivering lines for welding of Chassis (Front Mod, Rear Mod, Mid-Mod & Mainframe), Rear Twist Beam (RTB), Car Cross Beam (CCB), Front Cross Member (FCM) & welding of entire bus bodies, we can safely say that our experts have a solution to your arc welding problems & requirements.
Not just tooling, our engineers are adept at creating optimum layouts & processes to simplify the overall solution. Having commissioned various turn-key projects using all global brands of robots & welding power sources, VDL Pinnacle can be a single-stop solution for all your arc welding automation requirements.
Material handling constitutes a very important aspect of transfer of parts from one station to another. Be it overhead conveyors, floor mounted conveyors, roller beds, skids, lift & shift shuttle systems, end-of-line transfer systems, gravity chutes or even transfer through hoists, the team at VDL Pinnacle has done it all.
Depending on your budget & cycle time requirements, customized transfer systems can be designed, tested & supplied.
Different types of grippers / robotic hands for part pick-up & station transfer have been designed & supplied for all skin panels of passenger & commercial vehicles. These grippers can be for a single model or multi-model, can be either fixed or modular, with tool changers or without, entirely depending on the customer requirement.
Apart from manual, semi-automatic & automatic tooling & fixtures, we at VDL Pinnacle are capable of designing special customized equipment, be it turn-tables, multi-axis positioners, trunnions, ferris wheels & anything that your application demands.
The hardcore technical knowledge of our design team is best utilized when they are given a challenging task. Turning non-standard solutions into working models is a regular day at VDL Pinnacle, case in point being a 5-axis high payload synchronized-axis Ferris wheel, indigenously designed for saving space & cost for our valued customer.
Also, a unique, multi-model, low-investment, 100% robotic proto tooling shop concept was developed for one of our HQ’s overseas customers.
One of our parent organizations, VDL Steelweld, is one of the pioneers in designing sophisticated & best-in-class, automatic hang-on & Fitting lines to customers worldwide.
At VDL Pinnacle, we are here to solve your complex industrial assembly line problems with simple yet innovative solutions. Bring them on!
In a short span of time, we have successfully delivered 3 lines for bus body welding.
Comprising of manual & semi-automatic lines, we have supplied fixtures for all sub-assemblies & main framing stations to leading bus body manufacturing OEM’s in India.
Sub-assemblies welded on our fixtures are as follows:
Underframe / Base
Roof
Roof Panelling & Heating
Front
Rear
Body Side LH/RH
Main Framing / Shell
Rear Seat Box Assembly
Side Luggage Assembly
