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CRIMP FORCE ANALYSERS

Initially the CFA (Crimp Force Analyser) became an essential quality tool in the manufacture of safety critical automotive harnesses such as ABS and airbag systems.

Now, tens of thousands of analysers are in use globally by major automotive harness manufacturers along with the white goods, and electronics industries.

We are pleased to offer the CFA1000 from the UK factory with improved features and a very competitive price.

What is a Crimp Force Analyser?

A Crimp Force Analyser (CFA) is an electronic device that compares the forces involved throughout a crimping operation with those of a known good (reference) crimp. In doing so, and by setting tolerance levels, one can instantly tell if a crimping process is stable and that the terminals being produced satisfy the necessary quality criteria.

Essentially there are two main benefits to an organisation when considering such an investment and the importance of each will depend on a company's individual needs:-

• Quality Control - A very powerful tool for the sales department. CFA's enable you to guarantee that each crimp terminal you produce has been checked against a known good one in real time and non destructively. This is now essential for many safety critical products and highly desirable in most others.

• Equipment Protection - Stops the crimping process in the event of a critical failure. It can be very costly if your crimp tool jams up - or even worse - breaks. Particularly on automatic machines, running several thousands of terminals an hour, it's easy for an operator not to spot a problem before serious damage is caused. A correctly set analyser will prevent virtually all breakages caused in this way.

• Some Other benefits - The CFA will keep a count of the total number of good and bad terminals produced in a session. It should be possible at the end of production to retrieve the correct number of failed terminals, thus ensuring they don't get shipped as good parts. As a training aid, the CFA will give guidance to a novice press operator and help them to achieve consistent results.

• Missing or bent wire strands
• Incorrect insulation strip
• Strands outside main crimp
• Insulation in main crimp
• Insulation crimp faults
• Crimp misfeeds
• Incorrect wire use

CFA1000B For Benchtop Use

• Now fits on most popular presses
• Friendly controls and graphics
• Force curve can be viewed
• Pass/fail & batch counter
• Report generator option
• On line SPC
• Flexible I/O possibilities

CFA1000M For Machine Use

• No compromise on production speed
• Easily interfaced with most automatics
• Flexible display unit

We can service and supply spare parts for the following makes of Crimp Force Analyser including sensor cables, piezo rings, complete ram adaptors, pcbs, power supply units, encoders, couplings and mounting posts.

• Komax-325
• Komax-326
• CMD CFA1000M
• CMD CFA1000B