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sys­tem for invi­si­ble air­bag tear lines

Pro­ven laser tech­no­logy on an impro­ved plat­form: Jen­op­tik laun­ches a new JENOPTIK-VOTAN® A laser machine. With the »JENOPTIK-VOTAN® A+«, a modu­lar stan­dard ver­sion com­ple­ments the port­fo­lio of cus­to­mi­zed machi­nes for pre­cise laser air­bag weakening.

Cus­to­mers such as auto­mo­tive sup­pli­ers bene­fit from laser mate­rial pro­ces­sing with signi­fi­cant advan­ta­ges in terms of cost, size and deli­very time. The costs for a »JENOPTIK-VOTAN® A+« machine are redu­ced by up to 30 per­cent com­pared to a clas­sic sys­tem. It requi­res 13 square meters less floor space on the fac­tory floor and is deli­vered one month fas­ter. This cor­re­sponds to a reduc­tion in deli­very and instal­la­tion time of up to 20 percent.

Hig­hest pre­cis­ion for more safety

Every third car manu­fac­tu­red world­wide has an invi­si­ble tear line for the pas­sen­ger air­bag in its instru­ment panel – pro­du­ced with a VOTAN®-A sys­tem from Jen­op­tik. The reason: abso­lute pre­cis­ion in laser mate­rial pro­ces­sing. The shar­ply focu­sed laser beam of a JENOPTIK-VOTAN® A sys­tem cuts each indi­vi­dual hole of the invi­si­ble wea­k­e­ning line pre­cis­ely into the mate­rial until rea­ching the mini­mum resi­dual wall thic­k­ness. A sen­sor unit uses the trans­mit­ted laser radia­tion to ensure that the tear line cor­re­sponds one hundred per­cent to the pre­set para­me­ters. The sur­face mate­rial of the work­piece is retai­ned in full qua­lity. The con­trol loop ensu­res that the pre­de­ter­mi­ned brea­king point tears open cle­anly when an air­bag is trig­ge­red – as plan­ned by the engi­neers. With the help of digi­ti­zed pro­cess moni­to­ring, the exact exe­cu­tion for each indi­vi­dual hole of the laser air­bag wea­k­e­ning can be tra­ced and proven.

Fast, safe, dura­ble and attrac­tively priced

Jenoptik’s laser tech­no­logy for opti­mum air­bag per­for­mance is uni­que – it is fast, safe and dura­ble. »Other pro­ces­ses cut or mill the tear lines and can­not react as quickly to tool or mate­rial varia­ti­ons during pro­ces­sing. In addi­tion, in these cases, the work­pie­ces become con­ta­mi­na­ted by splin­ters and have to be clea­ned with com­pres­sed air in a fur­ther pro­cess step,« says Cars­ten Keim, head of sales and pro­duct manage­ment in Jenoptik’s laser mate­rial pro­ces­sing busi­ness. »VOTAN® A sys­tems work pre­cis­ely, quickly and cle­anly. Since lasers also ope­rate wear-free, they are often in use for up to three life cycles, or about 18 years. In the long term, this brings an enorm­ous cost advan­tage.« The JENOPTIK-VOTAN® A+ machine enables entry into using laser tech­no­logy for invi­si­ble air­bag scoring at an attrac­tive price.

30 years of expe­ri­ence meets con­ti­nuous improvement

»With almost 30 years of pro­duct expe­ri­ence and more than 350 VOTAN‑A machi­nes in the mar­ket world­wide, we com­pared our VOTAN® A pro­duct group with the cur­rent and future requi­re­ments of the mar­ket in a pro­cess of con­ti­nuous impro­ve­ment,« says Sebas­tian Die­nert, pro­duct mana­ger of the JENOPTIK-VOTAN® A pro­duct group. »Within this eva­lua­tion, the idea of a stan­dar­di­zed VOTAN® A sys­tem was born.«

The stan­dar­di­zed JENOPTIK-VOTAN® A+ has a modu­lar design. It can be con­fi­gu­red and easily expan­ded using pre­de­fi­ned design packa­ges. The in-house tech­no­logy soft­ware is con­ti­nuously deve­lo­ped fur­ther so that the com­pact and fle­xi­ble JENOPTIK-VOTAN® A+ is sui­ta­ble for Indus­try 4.0 appli­ca­ti­ons and ready to sup­port fur­ther advan­ces in digitalization.

About Jen­op­tik

Opti­cal tech­no­lo­gies are the very basis of our busi­ness: Jen­op­tik is a glo­bally active tech­no­logy group and is active in the three pho­to­nics-based divi­si­ons: Light & Optics, Light & Pro­duc­tion and Light & Safety. Under the TRIOPTICS brand, Jen­op­tik also offers opti­cal test and manu­fac­tu­ring sys­tems for the qua­lity con­trol of len­ses, objec­ti­ves and camera modu­les. Our key tar­get mar­kets pri­ma­rily include the semi­con­duc­tor indus­try, medi­cal tech­no­logy, auto­mo­tive and mecha­ni­cal engi­nee­ring, traf­fic, avia­tion as well as secu­rity and defense tech­no­logy indus­tries. Appro­xi­m­ately 4,300 employees work for Jen­op­tik world­wide. The Group’s head­quar­ters are in Jena (Ger­many). JENOPTIK AG is lis­ted on the Ger­man Stock Exch­ange in Frank­furt and is included in the SDax and TecDax. In the 2020 fis­cal year, Jen­op­tik gene­ra­ted reve­nue of approx. 767 mil­lion euros.

Cont­act

Clau­dia Barnert
Jen­op­tik Communications
Phone: +49 3641 65–3652
E‑mail: moc.kitponej@trenrab.aidualc

www.jenoptik.com/press/pressreleases/2022/01/13/new-votan-a-plus-laser-machine

January 18th, 2022

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