What Makes a Smart Tool ‘Smart’?

What Makes a Smart Tool ‘Smart’?

The Benefits of Smart Tools

Smart tools contain advanced technology and offer some dramatic benefits to assembly lines where time and quality-control are critical, such as electronics, appliances and motor vehicle assembly. These tools can transform your work process, save time and money, ensure consistency, and greatly improve quality. In this article, we’ll look at these benefits and explain why it might make sense for your company to upgrade to smart tools.

The Problem with Traditional Tools

The biggest problem with traditional tools is that too many decisions are left up to the operator. In precision fastening, assembly, and manufacturing operations, you require exact torque specifications. If your process is using traditional tools, you’re likely to get slightly different results with each operator.

While operator training can help improve quality, this typically requires the operator to slow down to ensure precise specs are being met.

Many cross-threading or tightening errors will likely go unnoticed at first, requiring additional quality checks and rework. These errors also increase scrap and material costs and can cause production disruptions and even recalls.

Setup is an inherent challenge for traditional tools. Individual stations may require different tools to meet precise torque specifications. This increases the chance of operator error, especially if one operator is moving from one tool to another. Each tool will likely need to be manually configured which takes a lot of setup time.

Ingersoll Rand’s smart tools like the IQi Series addresses these problems head-on. This cutting-edge technology will transform your production process leading to improved quality, faster setup, increased efficiency, an optimized process, reduced rework and downtime, and a healthy cost of ownership.

The RTS Connect’s cross-thread reduction feature runs a fastener two turns in the loosening direction before tightening, piloting the first thread in the joint to help reduce the risk of cross-threading.

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