Svenska Deutsch Fran ais Italiano Espa ol Ergonomics and Technological Advances in Portable Crimp Tools World competition is inevitably forcing manufacturers all around the world to improve their quality, increase productivity, and reduce costs. Employers are particularly concerned about the rising medical and legal costs arising from work-related injuries. Companies that utilize hand crimping tools are concerned with cumulative trauma disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome and related disorders of the hand, which made up 56 percent of work-related injuries in 1990, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Manufacturers choose to automate crimping wherever possible in order to achieve their goals.
Automation of crimping is accomplished via several well known methods ranging from presses to completely automated wire processing machines. OEM connector installation where automation is not feasible, Field and OEM connector repair and upgrades where low volume and high variability makes automation not feasible, OEM connector installation applications where the wire harness cannot be prefabricated, nor can the application be adapted to the constraints of conventional automation. The only way to achieve manufacturing's goals in these applications is to improve the methods used in portable crimping. Improved ergonomically designed mechanical crimping tools, 2. Battery powered portable hydraulic crimping tools.