Production facility battery housing

It was predictable that the massive changes due to the demanded mobility transformation will also affect the industry‘s conventional leak testing. Together with our customer we did the next step heading towards future mobility in different projects. The task was to integrate a leak testing facility into the existing manufacturing process. The leak test was carried out by using the mass flow procedure (air testing) and the leak detection in the case of NOK-parts via helium sniffing method (gas testing).
The characteristic of these projects was not only the timeliness of the topic, but also in the dimension of the component parts: With corresponding size these battery housings demanded a completely new mindset in all process steps and challenged our engineers consistently in the course of the project: How is it possible to reliably seal such a massive component part if the seal production can‘t set up rubber seals with a length of ca. 6.5 m in one part?
The solution of this challenge lay in the development of a special connection system for the realization of very long, closed seals. Also, the component handling via vacuum gripper system by robot and the in- and outward transfer of the XXL part needed a detailed coordination which led to conclusive general concepts.