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For quite a while the Deimos website has been in need of a major overhaul. We have undergone a period of very fast changes over the last two years; the company has grown significantly as have its products. We have won a number of new clients: while our customers were previously mostly recruited from among Czech companies, Deimos now exports approximately 60% of its production. Our website is to reflect this change. We hope you will enjoy our new look. 

For our Polish customer, we have completed the manufacturing of a new machine for the production of geosynthetic sheets that have increasingly become a material of choice for construction companies. Deimos has acquired significant expertise in this field, as the current machine is the third generation of automated appliances to have undergone dynamic development (to find out more, click here and here). While the two previous generations delivered solid performance, we have added a number of improvements. The device now offers maximum variability, enabling the production of foils of almost any pitch, with a total foil length of up to 3,600 millimeters. (more information)

In just three weeks of factory-wide shutdown in the TZ Billet Mill (part of the Třinecké železárny - Moravia Steel Group), the employees of Deimos (who did anything but rest) performed a major overhaul of the Callow C200, an ingot-machining appliance that reduces cold ingots into semi-finished products that are then used for further processing. It is in fact similar to a huge lathe. Our task was to completely rebuild the ingot feeder, which was significantly worn out and unreliable. The feeder module has been replaced by a new, more robust solution. (more information)

Owing to its expertise and proven track record of testing projects, Deimos was awarded a Pierburg contract. The interesting thing is that Pierburg continues producing the AGR exhaust system that was initially manufactured in a Visteon plant (here and here) with machines made by our company. Cleaned and packaged components are delivered to the plant where they become part of a larger whole with the help of a DSM screwdriver system. The assembly quality has to be double-checked with an overpressure test that takes place at a workstation also supplied by Deimos. (more information)

For Visteon, Deimos has manufactured a number of tools that are applied within various stages of EGR exhaust production. Within the actual manufacturing process, this particular workstation follows another Deimos-produced workstation that is involved in exhaust testing by checking the sealing quality. Subsequently, the products must be cleaned on the inside (with a strong current of air) as well as on the outside, followed by packaging (in order to prevent any impurities from soiling the product) and relevant labeling. Then the components are moved to another plant where they are assembled using various machines (with some of them again manufactured by Deimos). (more information)

A reel does not seem like much, but this particular one is used for reeling cables and its central piece is produced by gluing two different parts together. Servisbal placed an order for the device and, while we eventually managed to put the line into a full operation with the current output of one reel every 12 seconds, its final fine-tuning was an arduous process. The line manages the production of reels of various widths (depending how many meters of cables they are to hold) and can accommodate requests for advertising text to be placed on it, as the gluing method guarantees that the parts will be precisely matched. (more information)

While Deimos usually produces machines that use very high pressure as the testing method, this time the client wished to verify the functionality, output and parameters of rebuilt air-conditioning compressors in different modes, also identifying their noise and vibration levels. This not-so-large device is literally packed with various electronics, with fine-tuning and synchronization of individual sensors and units having proven the greatest challenge. The Valeo plant in Poland now features a workstation that is capable of readily measuring the main parameters of compressor performance through activity simulation in order to reject faulty products. (more information)

For Visteon, Deimos has produced a number of devices; in this particular case, the order involved a pressure-based testing appliance. The item subject to testing was a compressor component for automotive air-conditioning units. The tightness of the component is essential to the subsequent production stages, making testing very important. The operator places four pieces of the tested component in the machine where they are exposed to a force of several tons via pneumatic and hydraulic devices. Then a pressure of up to 20 bar is applied, with very accurate sensors measuring any decrease in the pressure over a specific period of time. (more information)

In the fall of 2010, Visteon, one of  Deimos’ long-standing clients, ordered a fifth tester used for identifying pressure leaks in ERG exhausts (click here to learn more about these devices). Given the size of the test workstation and how labor-intensive the process was, the order eventually meant that all workstations had to be interconnected, and a high degree of automation introduced. The client also needed the appliance to be delivered urgently – by Christmas 2010. The solution was based on placing all five testers into a rectangular formation, with a highly effective robot delivered by Kuka Robotics placed in the middle. This incredibly fast and accurate fellow loads products off the belt and services all five testers at the same time. He is overseen by software that, besides controlling the process, maximizes productivity by analyzing the current and upcoming free capacity of testers where tested products will be placed. (more information)

Rebuilding an old line is more difficult than building a new one from scratch. As “time is money”, technology has to be changed on the go, while production remains uninterrupted. In this particular case, Deimos had to rebuild one of Valeo’s older appliances. At the same time, the original production was maintained and the transfer to the new product had to be as smooth as possible. All this while a total of eight workstations were being replaced; some of them underwent a major overhaul, while others were fitted with brand new technology. As if this had not been enough, the time was very limited; we only had a short production stoppage available at Christmas time and during summer vacation, plus several weekends where the line was not in operation. From Deimos’ perspective, the project involved a significant risk as it was highly demanding in terms of work coordination and the activities could not interfere with the smoothness of the client’s production. (more information)