CNC Automation for Bicycle Component Manufacturing | New Partner
Bicycle component automation: hub, bottom bracket and crank machining on CNC lathes with gantry tending, automatic flipping and storage feeding.
Machining Automation for Bicycles and Sports Equipment
Hubs and wheel parts are regular in shape with stable batches, which suits a gantry robot well.
Bicycle & Sports Equipment, in short
Bicycle hubs, wheel hubs, bottom brackets and transmission parts, cranks and chainrings look alike but come in many variants, so changeover is frequent, and batch sizes swing with the season, which makes staffing hard to match. Appearance and balance requirements are high, and knocks show; manual loading and unloading is repetitive and operators are hard to recruit. Because the parts are regular in shape with stable batches, the usual approach is lathe loading and unloading, a gantry loading cell, automatic flipping for the second operation and storage and feeding, with flexible changeover built into the design.
Typical pain points in this industry
Typical workpieces
For categories with clear seasonal swings, flexible changeover capability can be built into the design.
Automation approaches that fit
The following business-line solutions are commonly used on these workpieces.
On the shop floor
How this industry is served: related business lines
The same kind of workpiece is attacked differently at each operation. Below is the role each business line plays on these workpieces.
Machine-brand pages for these workpieces
This industry's workpiece types are not broken out as separate sections on the machine-brand pages, which follow machine type. Use the two overviews below to find a page by brand and by machine type.
Machining applications for these workpieces (2)
See how a workpiece is machined, on which machines, and how it is loaded, fed and inspected — the application pages also name the business line that covers it.
Send the machine brand/model, part drawing or photo, blank and finished-part handling, single or multi-machine layout, target cycle and acceptance requirements.
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