Automotive
Improving the surface quality and dimensional accuracy of key vehicle components, such as engine parts, transmission gears, and steering system is paramount to ensuring the safe and reliable operation of the vehicle. This makes precision grinding an essential process in the manufacturing of high-quality automotive components.
Precision Grinding in Automotive Manufacturing
In the automotive industry, improved efficiency, quality, and compliance with tightest tolerance requirements are essential, especially when it comes to the production of the powertrain, steering systems, or engine. Many automotive components, such as homokinetic joint, valve balancing or other engine parts, require a high-precision grinding processing. Having recognized this, Alfons Schmeier has developed high-performance tools for internal grinding and superfinishing tailored to meet these specific and ever-increasing requirements.
In addition to short cycle times, employing Alfons Schmeier’s grinding and superfinishing wheels guarantees process stability and long service life. The brand’s solutions are available in CBN, diamond, silicon carbide, sintered alumina, and corundum bonded in a vitrified matrix. Drawing on its decades-long expertise, Alfons Schmeier manages to optimize the grinding processes and reduce the associated costs.
Fuel Injection Technology
With decades of experience in the development and manufacturing of high precision tools for fuel injection, Alfons Schmeier’s solution are the embodiment of technology at the highest level, meeting tightest surface quality and workpiece geometry requirements. Ever since it was founded, Alfons Schmeier has been a leader in the manufacturing of high-precision and ultra-small grinding wheels that allow for high-precision grinding of many different injection system parts. These include gasoline injector nozzles and diesel injector nozzles, among which a P-type injector nozzle (passenger car ø 4 mm), an S-type injector nozzle (offroad ø 5 and 6 mm), or an DN-type injector nozzle (offroad ø 5 and 6 mm).
The abrasives in Alfons Schmeier’s internal grinding and superfinishing solutions for fuel injection have grain sizes from 3μm to 251μm and 40 mesh to 1,500 mesh. These solutions offer superior internal cylindrical grinding performance when it comes to seal seat and guide diameter grinding, relevant for many machine systems.
Alfons Schmeier has proven to be the trusted partner for automotive manufacturers and suppliers due to the utmost precision that it delivers, its high-quality tools with highly porous structures, and comparatively low costs per component. Customers benefit from Schmeier’s cutting-edge technology indispensable to high-precision applications.
Alfons Schmeier has proven to be the trusted partner for automotive manufacturers and suppliers due to the utmost precision that it delivers, its high-quality tools with highly porous structures, and comparatively low costs per component. Customers benefit from Schmeier’s cutting-edge technology indispensable to high-precision applications.
Transmission and Engine Components
The increasing demand for noise and fuel consumption reduction makes the requirements for the geometry and finish of transmission and engine components even more stringent. Precision grinding plays a central role in meeting these demands, and Alfons Schmeier’s internal grinding and superfinishing solutions play an essential part in achieving these high standards.
Precision-engineered transmission parts require intricate grinding operations and technology. Given the complexity of this task, close collaboration with Schmeier’s application engineers is indispensable. Thanks to its vast industry experience, Alfons Schmeier is able to quickly and efficiently implement complex and complementary specifications and produce customized parts.
The brand’s product solutions can simultaneously perform several grinding operations with a single tool spindle, allowing for a simultaneous face and bore grinding, thus, translating into significant cost and time savings.
The brand’s product solutions can simultaneously perform several grinding operations with a single tool spindle, allowing for a simultaneous face and bore grinding, thus, translating into significant cost and time savings.
Constant Velocity Joints (CVJ)
Constant velocity joints are located at each end of the drive shaft and serve to connect the wheels to the axles and to the transmission. Alfons Schmeier’s grinding wheels are recognized for their ability to machine high-precision surfaces on axle journals and ball cage components, ensuring a cost-effective process when deep grinding ball tracks and cage windows.
