miniaturisation in the Automotive industry
What is the key to staying competitive in the global Automotive industry? It is vital for both Automotive manufacturers as well as OEMs to continuously improve quality and performance in order to remain competitive. It is even more important to invest in the future and to embrace innovation. Miniaturisation is key to this.
The demand for miniaturisation presents various challenges to the Automotive industry, its designers and engineers in the form of higher precision, tighter tolerances, and shorter product development cycles. We offer ways to take advantage of this trend and help you stay ahead of the curve.
high precision for the Automotive industry
We are a world-leading manufacturer in this field, producing over 1 million components for the Automotive industry every month.
Our techniques enable us to provide the perfect manufacturing capabilities for producing the finest detail – from springs and flexures for ABS braking and catlytic converters to precision mesh for speaker grilles.
With co-development at our core, we work with industry-leading manufacturers to produce:
- High precision meshes and filters such as fuel injection nozzle plates.
- Miniaturised components such as lead frames, spring connecters, airbag components, clutch components, gaskets, shims, washers, and spacers.
- Co-development with next-gen solutions such as fuel cells, sensor components, and solutions for radar parts.
- Top quality decorative plates such as tread plates, and brand logos.
Plus:
- ABS & GDI flexures
- Spray nozzle plates
- Tumblers
- High frequency radar
- Washers, shims and spacers
- Speed dials
- Speaker grilles
- Tread plates
how chemical etching helps
Widely used across a range of high-tech industries, chemical etching from Tecan is the answer to your precision metal part needs. Complex, burr and stress-free components can be produced from your ideas into reality in a matter of days. Think how that could revolutionise your prototyping concepts. Then understand how easy it is to scale these concepts for industrial manufacturing.
Key benefits:
• Micro-scale features;
• Tight tolerances (down to ±12 μm);
• Rapid prototyping with flexible tooling allowing for easy modifications;
• Stress and burr free parts;
• Wide range of materials;
• Thicknesses from 25μm to 2mm;
• Round holes, sharp edges, straight or profiled edges;
• Highly cost-effective method for prototyping, yet scalable to (very) large production volume.
Download the Automotive brochure
See also: The chemical etching difference for the Automotive industry supply chain
We work with a number of materials suitable for the Automotive industry, including a range of steels and stainless steels, plus aerospace-grade aluminium, molybdenum, nickel alloys and copper.
