The Customer:

Any supplier of automotive interior components

The Task:

Produce a ready-to-install seatbelt lock cover

The Problem:

Manufacturing cockpit components cost-effectively to the highest quality criteria?

The Solution:

The intelligent combination of different production technologies from KraussMaffei - injection moulding, reaction moulding and a high level of automation.

The Outcome:

An injection moulded carrier produced on a KM 160-740 CX is coated with a high-quality polyurethane layer in the same mould. The polyurethane is produced in a RIM Star minidos mixing and metering machine docked onto the mould. An LR-S 100 linear robot demolds the parts, cuts the sprue and deposits the parts in boxes on an indexing conveyor belt. KraussMaffei has successfully implemented a one-shot process with no post-processing that is capable of producing parts with high-quality surfaces at an economic cost. The potential for the future is huge.