Providing muffler assembly solutions

AddisonMckee has been commissioned, under its 'Eagle' brand name, to manufacture both new and rebuilt equipment on behalf of one of the world's largest exhaust manufacturers to produce the muffler assembly for Chrysler's 'C' platform vehicle in the United States.

The AddisonMckee solution features a lockseamer with a sheet de-stacker system and tool changer interfaced to a shell flanger and muffler internal baffle stuffer. The company says it broke new ground in the process by interfacing the front end muffler module to a robot and press that removes a shell from the transfer system and loads and unloads an AM-supplied 50 T press to produce the side entry hole and extrusion. It then returns it to the transfer system for stuffing.

The company is also completing the rebuild of a horizontal spinner transfer.