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Demco products can be used in a wide variety of manufacturing applications. The following case studies demonstrate our versatility.
The customer's requirements were to develop a complete assembly line to fully assemble and inspect a wall mount switch, consisting of over 40 separate operations. The equipment needed to be flexible enough to accommodate ongoing design changes as well as assemble new products being developed in the product category. The customer also wanted to have some operator intervention at several of the stations. Demco utilized both rotary dial and in-line chassis from its Assembly Line product family and tied the entire system together with a Bosch power-and-free pallet system.
The result was a robust assembly line that met cycle time, exceeded yield requirements, and was delivered in less than 26 weeks. The line was installed in two days, debugged in the third day, and completely operational assembling product on the fourth day.
Since its initial installation, the customer has integrated an additional wedge chassis to eliminate three operators. This same unit was installed on a non-Demco line installed several years earlier to accomplish the same goals. Additionally, complete new products within the switch family have been successfully introduced and assembled on the line by adding several new Wedge stations and through re-arranging of some existing Wedge stations.
Wedge Equipment:
Wedge Stations:
Cycle Time: 5 seconds
Location: USA
An emerging Telecom firm had secured a significant long-term contract and was in desperate need to meet production demand. Each machine had to be able to assemble 5 different products from the product family. Adding to the challenge was the customer's lack of experience in automation equipment. All processes were currently being done with manual labor.
In order to understand the current assembly process and some of the nuances the operators were experiencing, Demco and the customer identified several key steps in the process that were causing particular pain in the operation. We developed Wedge station benchtops for these operations, while concurrently manufacturing 16 base chassis back in our production facility. During the benchtop operations, we discovered a number of part variances that the operators were able to overcome in a manual mode, but that caused error faults on the benchtops. We were able to pinpoint these problem areas quickly, and the customer worked diligently with their suppliers to bring the components within specification.
When the 16 base chassis were delivered to the customer with the balance of Wedge stations required to complete the assembly process, we were able to take the benchtop Wedge stations, which had been completely debugged, and plug them directly in to the Wedge chassis. The customer was able to successfully meet their demand and profit goals.
Wedge Equipment:
Wedge Stations:
Cycle Time: 6 seconds
Location: USA
Automation Platform to Major Medical Device Manufacturer 
This manufacturer of catheters and syringes had complete in-house capability for building automation equipment. Their challenge was to build equipment that was more cost effective, on time, and met the company's mandate to build equipment that was more flexible and modular to meet design changes.
Demco provided the ideal solution with our AD-16 Full Automatic 16 station rotary dial chassis. The AD-16 comes complete with controls architecture, power/air/electrical distribution, and is ready for plug-in Wedge station modules.
While Demco was preparing the Wedge base chassis, the customer was designing and building tooling on the blank Wedge stations that Demco supplied 2 days ARO. The Wedge base chassis was delivered in five (5) weeks and the company was operational in 12 weeks. This cut nearly 14 weeks out of their average time to get equipment productive, saving them thousands of dollars.
Wedge Equipment:
Wedge Stations:
Cycle Time: 5 seconds
Location: USA
