Lean Manufacturing for Bonding Fasteners
Background
bigHead Bonding Fasteners has been helping design engineers to fasten composite materials strongly and efficiently for over 30 years.
The fasteners are designed to be easily incorporated into customer’s own process tools. To further this objective the company has been developing bigHead Lean Bonding®, offering a clean and reliable way to bond fasteners onto composites and metal substrates. Joining metal fasteners to polypropylene, the most widely used thermoplastic, presented a challenge for this rapid process, due to the surface treatment processes needed before adhesive application.
The Powderbond Solution
bigHead recognised that not only does PowderBond eliminate these problems but is itself, a lean process, giving it a natural synergy with Lean Bonding.
Through heat induction, PowderBond-treated metal fasteners are strongly bonded to GFPP in a matter of seconds. Lean Bonding can be fully automated for high volumes or applied manually for low volumes.
The PowderBond treated metal fasteners can also be joined to the composite component at a later stage as open times don’t apply.
Benefits
With Lean Bonding for polypropylene, bigHead can offer its own customers significant gains in manufacturing efficiency. The bonding process is rapid, and the long lasting ‘ready’ state of the treated metal assists production planning,
Bonds have unrivalled and consistent strength, far greater than any achieved with industrial adhesives.
Find out more
If you would like further information on the benefits that PowderBond could bring to your design please call us for a chat. We will work closely with you through evaluation for your own particular application.
