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Fasteners for Industrial Robotics: Enabling Precision and Reliability with Bossard

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  Industrial robotics has become a key driver of automation in sectors such as automotive, electronics, logistics, metal processing, and heavy manufacturing. These robotic systems are designed to operate continuously, handle high loads, and perform tasks with extreme accuracy. Behind this performance lies a critical but often overlooked component — fasteners. The right fastening solutions are essential to ensure stability, precision, and long-term reliability in industrial robotics. Bossard , a global expert in fastening technology, supports robotics manufacturers with high-quality and application-focused fastener solutions. Role of Fasteners in Industrial Robotics Industrial robots consist of multiple assemblies including robotic arms, bases, joints, gearboxes, sensors, and control enclosures. These components are exposed to dynamic loads, vibration, repetitive motion, and thermal stress. Fasteners must securely hold parts together while maintaining alignment and mechanical integ...

Helicoil Wire Inserts for Modern Manufacturing

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  In the dynamic world of manufacturing and engineering, fasteners play a crucial role in ensuring the integrity and longevity of assembled components. When it comes to threaded connections, issues like thread damage, wear, and stripped threads can pose significant challenges. This is where Helicoil inserts come to the rescue, offering a reliable and effective solution for thread reinforcement. While widely known for its use in stripped thread repair for bolted joints, threaded inserts also allow for a strengthened threaded hole in softer materials like wood, plastic, composite sandwich panels, and softer metals such as aluminum. This attribute gives helicoil inserts an important role in today’s modern manufacturing with 3-D printed parts, lightweighting, composites, and increased use of plastics.  What are Helicoil Inserts? Helicoil inserts are precision-engineered coils of wire with a diamond-shaped cross-section. These inserts are designed to be installed into a tapped ho...

Why Threaded Inserts are Crucial in Modern Manufacturing?

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  Choosing the right fastener for the job plays a crucial role in how the final product turns out. When an application involves joining materials that are too soft or too thin, directly accepting self-tapping screws or bolts will cause damage to the base material. In this situation, threaded inserts make joining those materials possible. Once this type of fastener is installed, the internal threads of the insert are available to support screws, bolts, and other fasteners with male threading. Threaded inserts aren’t just useful for workpieces made from soft or thin materials. These inserts are often used to replace existing threaded holes that have been stripped or are otherwise no longer suitable for securely holding threaded fasteners . Compared with self-tapping screws, screws and bolts with threaded inserts can handle higher axial and radial loads.   Threaded inserts were initially developed for the aerospace and aviation industries, where their main purpose was to s...

Battery Fasteners for Electric Vehicles

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Electric vehicles are changing the face of modern transportation as we know it. As more consumers adopt electric vehicle technology for their everyday use, emerging market players are in the constant pursuit of innovation and refinement. Knowing how to design an electric vehicle (EV) requires careful consideration of what goes into one. Including right down to the type of fasteners used to keep it all together.  At Bossard, we understand the challenges that go into EV battery module design. The increased use of lightweight materials demands fastener solutions that meet and exceed the demands of their unique tasks and environments. Our tailor-made solutions are designed to help you achieve the highest safety and quality standards for your specific application.  We offer fasteners with the battery design for electric vehicles in mind.  Embedding and Surface Bonding Fasteners   These intelligent fasteners offer reliable mounting in soft and composite materials. Capab...

Best Fasteners for Plastics and Composites: Threaded Inserts

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When it comes to choosing the best fasteners for plastics and composite materials, you have a range of options. However, not all fastening solutions are suitable for every application.  And if you’re looking for the best fasteners for plastics and composites, the team at LPS Bossard can help.  Throughout the world, Bossard fasteners have become synonymous with exceptional quality, durability, and unrivaled performance. In addition to an expansive selection of fastening solutions, we offer Product Solutions and Assembly Technology Expert support as you work toward the best solution to your bolted joint problem. And if the ideal solution doesn’t exist, Bossard can create it.  One of the top fastening solutions we offer for composites and plastics are threaded inserts . Also known as a threaded bushing , threaded inserts are fasteners that can be pressed-in, molded-in, or welded into a soft material to create permanent machine threads.  Threaded inserts help preven...