MDS Maschinen-und Werkzeugbau GmbH & Co. KG Dear Sirs, We are convinced, that working together with you as an Asian-Pacific fastener producer, will result in a huge growth potential for our both companies. As we are definitely committed, to establish a long term relationship with our supplier, we need to know more details of your company and what you are producing. We promise to tread your information confidential, as we are sure you treat ours. In the following action list you will see what our plans for the next steps are. We hope that due to the information we gave you about MDS, you will be interested in working together with us. 1) Please fill out the questionnaire in this e-mail 2) Please send us samples of your products, together with drawings and a brochure (CD-ROM) showing your product range 3) We will send you inquiries of the most common products we are automating. We will start with clinch fastener and weld fasteners. 4) Please send us a quote on our inquiry. The inquiries are projects that we are currently working on winning! 5) After we evaluated your questionnaire and quote, we would like to visit your company to get a better impression and discuss the future work flow and processes, as well as the common quality strategy 6) After the visit we will make a decision Thank you very much in advance for your cooperation. Yours sincerely Heiko Schmidt President Autoriv Series MDS Maschinen-und Werkzeugbau GmbH & Co. KG- Ditthornstrasse 22/ 93055 Regensburg, Germany Since 15 years MDS is a leading manufacturer of fastener automation and installation tools. Autoriv is the trusted, industry-recognized MDS brand that stands for comprehensive fastening solutions. Our service comprises design and engineering of special fasteners with application testing, the according installation tools and automation modules together with the necessary automation environment. The unique combination of overall expertise in fastening technology, in prog-/transfer die technology and in automated assembly technology, enables us to provide our customer with probably the most comprehensive turn key systems and solutions in the field of fastening technology. Fasteners, presses, prog-/transfer dies, feeders, placing heads as well as robotic automation cells for big assemblies can be supplied by us. We do not produce fasteners. Thus so far we worked together with European fastener suppliers. Now we want to investigate the Asian/Pacific market for potential long term suppliers for Europe. Because we are specialists in fastener automation we are constantly having applications, that require a huge fastener volume starting from 500.000 fasteners a year till 30.000.000 a year. We directly supply European OEM´s as Daimler Chrysler, BMW, AUDI, VW, FORD and OPEL as well as their TIER 1 and smaller companies. If you are interested to supply us with fasteners please fill out the attached questionnaire and send us brochures and probably sample parts of your most common products. As a next step we would like to send you inquiries for our standard parts. In the third step, we would like to visit your company. Our time frame for a decision on long term suppliers is the end of the year 2004. We would like to start a prosperous and fair relationship with our partner as soon as possible! MDS Contact: Tel: +49/941/6042-121, Fax: +49/941/795400, E-mail: Info@mds-r.de, Internet: www.mds-r.de Company: Name/Department: Phone: Fax: E-mail: Other contacts: Fasteners of interest 1 1.Weld fasteners • Weld nuts • Weld studs • Weld pins • Weld ball pins 4 Weld fasteners Press-, self clinching fasteners and rivets Press in or hot melt inserts Setzelemente 5 Cage nuts and clip or snap elements 2. Self clinching fasteners & rivets • Self piercing nuts • Self clinching nuts • Riveting nuts • Self piercing studs • Self clinching studs • Shoulder Rivets • Riveting ball pins • Self staking pins • Bearings (Plastic) • Bearings (Copper) 3. Blind fasteners • Breakstem rivets • Blind threaded riveting nuts • Blind threaded riveting studs 4. Threaded inserts • Inner thread -Cold insertion -Hot insertion • Outer thread -Cold insertion -Hot insertion 2 5. Snap elements/ Clips • Metal nut clips- inner thread • Plastic clips 3 6 Blind fasteners Screw-In fasteners 6. Screw-In fasteners • Screws • Nuts Mixed automation combining different fastening technologies. Picture shows an automation that sets 8 nuts and clinchs parts together. The integration of other fastening technologies is possible. Manual loading or loading via robot is possible. Ideal for high volumes and fast cycle times Picture shows rotary table automation that sets 3 fasteners in one hit. Fasteners are fed automatically. Loading is manual, automatic unloading with quality check and separation of bad parts. The integration of other technologies like welding, clinching, bonding, soldering, drilling, crimping… is possible. Prog- or transfer dies in combination with automated assemblies that are carried out in die. Fastening technologies like clinching, welding, staking, crimping can be integrated Transfer assembly automation with integration of automatic part or fastener feeding and possible integration of a huge variety of assembly and fastening technologies Robotic automation cells with integration of automatic part or fastener feeding and possible integration of a huge variety of assembly and fastening technologies (depending on the part to be assembled). C-frame presses with air-over-oil, hydraulic or servo drives, as well as big hydraulic presses (up to 10 metric Tonns) with integrated controls. Integration of load/distance controls is available. AUTORIV 210 Automation designed to set a defined number of fasteners simultaneously to achieve faster cycle times as on A230 or A240 versions. Fasteners can be set under different angles and in undercuts. Picture shows an automation example that sets 6 nuts and 2 studs in one hit. Also to be used in robotic cells. AUTORIV 230Z Robust stationary C-frame with automated fastener feeding. The robot presents the sheet metal part to the C-frame. Very flexible solution for robotic cells. Many different sheet metal parts can be processed in one cell. Feeders are situated outside the cell. We also offer complete robotic cells and standardized robotic cells AUTORIV 250P C-frame with automated feeding of fasteners. Designed for robotic cells either for mobile use on the robot or as a stationary equipment. We also offer complete robotic cells. ROTARY-TABLEAUTOMATION CNC-controlled insertion equipment. Up to 4 fasteners can be inserted into a sheet metal parts without the need for tool changes. Fastener positions are free programmable. Flexible solution for small volumes and many different sheet metal parts that are manually hard to handle. TRANSFERAUTOMATION Manual work stations with operator safety system available in a large variety from low automated to high automated versions. Flexible solution for small volumes and many different sheet metal parts or fasteners. We also supply multi-bowl feed versions. Integration in rotary or transfer automation is possible. PRESS MODULS AUTORIV 100 AUTORIV 220 AUTORIV 240V AUTORIV 260C TOOL AND DIES ROBOTICASSEMBLIES Automated system for in die use comprising of feeder and setting heads. The systems is suitable for prog- and transfer dies. Available fastening technologies are: Staking, welding and clinching of fasteners and components to be assembled. We also offer turn to key systems with feeders, setting heads and automated dies .
