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Automated Piston Assembly

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What happens here

A new piece of equipment, custom-designed by the Blueprint Engineering team, is a 'piston ring installation machine'. This machine automates the process of installing piston rings onto the pistons. It also features a 'wrist pin installation machine' that precisely installs the connecting rod and wrist pin to the piston, preventing common errors like misalignment or damage. These machines are 'mistake-proofed' – they will not function unless components are correctly oriented and seated. This ensures high quality and efficiency, significantly reducing manual effort and potential for human error.

Goal: Automate piston ring, connecting rod, and wrist pin installation.

Tools and materials

  • Connecting Rods — Connecting the piston to the crankshaft
  • Induction Heating System — Heating pistons to facilitate wrist pin installation
  • Piston Rings — Sealing the piston within the cylinder
  • Pistons — Receiving piston rings, connecting rods, and wrist pins
  • Wrist Pins — Connecting the piston to the connecting rod

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slide it over here that wrist panel just pushed right in set up perfectly positioned perfectly right there for you so if you think about everything that can go wrong with getting the wrist pin the rod and the piston together getting them off center having them get stuck not having them be the right temperature and things like that this is all designed by our engineering team to be able to control as much of that as possible so when we talk about reducing the complexity if that's the only thing you really have to worry about as an operator and not getting burned that's pretty pretty simplified from what we're used to doing does ninja make mistakes okay not as much on the automated stuff all right ninja you want to train him how to do this and then we'll uh we'll let him take a crack at it uh yeah this is so easy we have like a nine-year-old kid do it it'll have all these indications of which uh direction he'll go whatever so you just look at the picture copy the picture yeah you just stick it in there and it puts the rings right on for you so that one's going up or whatever stick it in there you got your first oil rail on so when you press it in there it hits that button and yeah it's actually a magnet i think where the magnet will hit so when it's in there in the right spot right then it'll depress and yep okay press and shoot one out at a time pretty amazing flip it over 180 degrees and stick it in your next one you'll put your other oil rail right on there for you so then that's one holder scale 45 or 90 290. there's your second ring a whole do one 180 right here and then there's your top line that's very satisfying to watch yes sir is it my turn now yeah if you want let's go ahead okay let's see if i can figure this out if a nine year old could do it i think i'll be all right screen goes dark and you want to see what you're doing just touch it again and that'll light back up okay so now we've switched rolls i'm gonna try to put this together i'm taking this now the most important thing is to have a big smile on your face while you do this so everybody knows how fun this is yeah so we put it up with the f on the top yep because there's no f on this side i noticed that already so using my brain here [Music] yep pull it out make sure it seats there you go and the next step is going to be one of the first oil rings just a slight rotation the machine will feed the ring on there for you all right see it's in place the other side now might have been a little…

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