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Scanner welding: IP beams

Instrument Panel Carrier for automotive dashboards

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Inspection
Lasers in the Automotive Industry

University of Virginia - November 2010

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Figure 2.9: Instrument panel carrier for automotive dashboards; source Havrilla,
Inspection technologies
2010.for the mass fabrication of CCBs are discussed in Killing,

2009,
and in Sun 2012. Technologies of AVI (automated visual inspection) were used
successfully.
successfully.

2.10: Stamped
steel the
CCB;
the zoom
shows
a close
oneof
of 46
46 clips,
Figure 10Figure
- Stamped
steel CCB;
zoom
shows
a close
upup
ofofone
clips; source:
[16].
Killing, 2009

Killing,
[16],discusses
discusses inspection
inspection ofofa astamped
steel
beam
that acts
the as
mounting
frame
Killing,
2009,
stamped
steel
beam
that asacts
the mounting
frame
for
the
dashboard.
The
system
has
been
tested
using
images
generated
by a
for the dashboard. The system has been tested using images generated by a commercial
commercial
machine
system
line for
the production
machine vision
systemvision
installed
on aninstalled
assemblyon
lineanforassembly
the production
of automotive
CCBs,of
automotive CCBs, Figure 10. This particular CCB has a length of 170 cm and 46 metal
Figure 2.10. This particular CCB has a length of 170 cm and 46 metal clips must be inserted
clips must be inserted to provide threaded fastening points that allow the dashboard to
provide threaded
fastening points that allow the dashboard to be attached to the beam. At
betoattached
to the beam.
inspection
station,
thethe
beams
are are
checked
to ensure
that that
all clips
are present
and
Atthe
thefinal
final
inspection
station,
beams
checked
to ensure
all clips
are present
and
correctly
inserted.
correctly
inserted.

2.4.2 LCA recycling

LCA recycling
Life cycle and recycling of lightweight vehicles are discussed by Das, [57]. An interesting

Life
cycleof and
recycling
of lightweight
vehicles [58],
are concluding
discussed that
by Das,
2010. An
analysis
LCA for
IPs is presented
by Tharumarajah,
the comparison
interesting analysis of LCA for IPs is presented by Tharumarajah, 2010, concluding that
of environmental performance reveals that magnesium IPs performed the worst. Most of
the comparison of environmental performance reveals that magnesium IPs performed
itsworst.
emissions
come
magnesium
sourced
China andsourced
from thefrom
use of
SF6 cover
gas
the
Most
of from
its emissions
come
fromfrom
magnesium
China
and from
the use of SF6 cover gas in melt protection. In the initial paragraphs of the present
literature review it was already mentioned that according to Slik, 2002, the removal and
dismantling of an IP could not be done in a cost efficient way. That was due to the lack
of a design for dismantling and recycling strategy, as well as low level of polymer
revenue compared with competitive price of virgin polymer.