This most comprehensive field of solutions and performances convinced also the responsible persons of an innovative automobile manufacturer when looking for sheet metal joining technology best suited for a new door model. After many evaluations and successful tests, the decision was in favour of the solid punch rivet technology from TOX PRESSOTECHNIK.

Since many years a trustful relation to TOX as technology supplier exists and good experiences have been made so far. For the door production the TOX application engineers tied up an individual performance package which included a few hand-held and almost 30 robot-supported tongs systems. Due to the fact that a great number of base components could be taken from the TOX-standard program, high expenditures for application effort or customised machinery could be avoided so that the investment cost remained within a clearly calculable scope. And also the rivet feedings, the tongs and the tool holding fixtures are of such an universal construction that with the hand-held tongs and the robot tongs it is possible to process solid punch rivets of diam. 4,0 mm and lengths from 3.3 to 8.1 mm, as well as solid punch rivets of diam. 5.0 mm and lengths from 3.9 to 9.0 mm in a flexible way.