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Smart Vehicle Transportation Body Solutions

PROJECT SOLUTIONS

 
 

MBE leads the industry in quality innovation and offers the most comprehensive tooling line available for the robotic roller hemming and closure assembly industries. Excelling in world-class product development, tooling development, cell layout, programming techniques and robotic transport products and solutions. MBE’s technology is rigorously field tested to deliver confidence to the OEM by providing robustness and repeatability of the workmanship that goes into every project.

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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT • ASSEMBLY FEA • AUTOMATION TOOLING • ROBOTIC CELL SIMULATION • MACHINING & FABRICATION • CONTROLS & INTEGRATION

ROBOTIC VISION & INTEGRATION • VISION SALES & SERVICE • CMM CERTIFICATION • ROBOTIC MATERIAL HANDLING

 
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MBE’s Detroit based team of dedicated engineers have an accumulation of 220 years of sheet metal forming and die design experience. We cover class-A product design-for-manufacturability, sheet metal stamping die process and design, robotic tooling design, automation design, fabrication, installation, tryout and debug of automated assembly cells.

 

MBE CAPABILITIES

PRODUCT MANUFACTURING FEASIBILITY STUDY, 3D-SOLID MODELING OF OUT/IN PANELS

CLOSED AND OPEN HEM FLANGE LAYOUT MAPPING, 2D/3D FINAL DESIGNS

STAMPING DIE PROCESS AND FLANGE DIE DEVELOPMENT

METAL-FORMING-SIM / ROBOT-SIM / CELL-PROCESS-SIM

Using Interactive State-of-the-Art Software Application Packages

CONTROLS AND VISION DESIGN

PRODUCTION TOOLING STATIONS AND CELLS

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CLOSURE AUTOMATION & PRODUCTION

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 TURNKEY PROJECT SOLUTIONS

MBE’s experienced team has the skills and technology to deliver turnkey automated system solutions – from concept to production.

 
 
 

TURNKEY PROJECT SOLUTIONS, FROM CONCEPT TO LAUNCH.

MBE offers OEM and tier-one clients full project management and engineering support for turnkey projects. Our experienced team of engineers and skilled technicians have the capability to deliver complete projects of the highest quality and includes development / manufacturing / installation / automation / debug / startup, as well as aftermarket and technical support. We provide expertise and guidance on material selection, assembly conditions and logistics feasibility.

MBE delivers precision-engineered turnkey equipment and solutions on time, on budget and to the highest possible standards.

TURNKEY PROJECT CAPABILITIES

QUALITY, CAPABILITY & EXPERIENCE
Being the first U.S. company to produce Robotic Closure Assembly tooling (1998), the assembly standards set then have been improved on and earmarked for today's engineering and production.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
With all teams involved in the project working closely together, we avoid issues that could lead to cost and production time overruns. As a result, MBE delivers turnkey solutions on budget and to the highest possible standards.

INDUSTRY STANDARDS
MBE has strong relationships with tool manufacturers and other experts within the engineering and manufacturing industries. This not only ensures our products are industry standard, it keeps us at the cutting edge of engineering technology.

CONSISTENT PROJECT TIMELINES
With MBE managing design, fabrication and installation, multiple stages of manufacturing can overlap, and require long-lead and just-in-time material acquisitions. MBE has an ordering system that builds lists of materials that is automatically generated from within the engineering design stage. This pulls forward the ordering process to promote a timely manufacturing process.

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CLOSURE TOOLING PROCESSES AND TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPED EXCLUSIVELY IN-HOUSE

Offering an Advanced Product Line of Innovative and Flexible Solutions

 
 

ROBOTIC CLOSURE ASSEMBLY

MBE AIR-ANVIL™
Patented locational stability technology; the world leader for robotic roller hemming.

MBE CURE™
Curing technology for MBE robotic roller hemming station or in a subsequent station.

MBE PPVU™
Patented roller technology used in MBE robotic roller hemming processes.

MBE RRVU™
Advanced checking technology validates functionality of robotic roller hemming EOAT and that of the overall robotic system.

MBE FLYING-HAMMER™
Patented robotic roller hemming forming technology.

MBE SUNROOF™
Patented, high-speed, cable free, robust, robotic roller hemming sunroof process.

MBE WHEEL ARCH™
Patented robotic roller hemming technology; sleek, high speed, flexible multi-model, cable free with optional vision localization and inspection.

 
 

MATERIAL TRANSPORT

MBE AIR-HANDLER™
Patented class-A transport stability technology.

ASSEMBLY

MBE HANG-ON™
Patented automated closure hang-on.

MBE ROOF LOAD™
Patented high precision roof transport technology.

PART RUNS

WELD / RIVET / ADHESIVE / JOIN / HEM / CURE / INSPECT / PACKAGE / FREIGHT
Low-to-medium volume part runs:
Prototype / DCV / Pilot build