Your partner for joining innovation

With our worldwide innovation network, dedicated testing facilities and experienced application experts, we develop tailor-made solutions and help you solve your joining challenges

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Together we solve every joining challenge

At Atlas Copco, we combine innovative joining technologies like self-pierce riveting, adhesive dispensing and flow drill fastening. Regardless of the individual technology – we know how to join. We have a great team of experienced joining experts, dedicated to developing new solutions that increase productivity and solve our customers' challenges. We offer a comprehensive innovation partnership and accompany you in every step of the development process. Benefit from our extensive competence and let us help you to solve your joining challenge.

Engineer the perfect joint

Benefit from our joining competence across multiple technologies and let us help you engineer the perfect joint for your requirements.

Optimize your time to production start

We are experts in our customers' processes. We ensure that your joining solutions are developed and tested in real life conditions and processes.

Lower your process and quality costs

Want to increase productivity and quality or solve current challenges? We help you optimize your running applications and processes without disturbing your running production.

How can we help you?
Discover our innovation services!

Application development

You have a special joining challenge? We make it happen! We investigate, develop and evaluate suitable applications. Together with our customers we choose the best solution, focusing on sustainable productivity and quality. We drive the application until it is ready for series production, provide start-up support, and reduce your time to quality.

Process development

From part measurement to the actual application trough to quality assurance – we develop a holistic joining process for you. Using workshops with customers and suppliers as well as test trials and simulation, we make sure that the process exactly fits your requirements and enable reliable and productive manufacturing.

Joint quality analysis

In our joint analysis labs, we use metallography and microscopy, and do comprehensive tensile testing using different load directions with shear, peel and cross tension tests. This is especially important when developing safety-critical joints for vehicles.

Material testing

Materials, adhesives, rivets and fasteners – a joint is a complex interaction between multiple players. We make sure that you have a perfect fit. In our material tests, we work out the right joining element, equipment, configuration and parameters to get the best out of your application.

Technology integration

We integrate different joining technologies to a unique solution that is ready for series production. This includes not only our core technologies self-pierce riveting, adhesive dispensing, flow drill fastening and quality inspection, but also tightening, spot and laser welding from our network partners.

Pilot production

With prototyping and pilot production, we offer the unique opportunity to install and program the entire system and run the newly developed application in reasonable quantities before going into actual production. This minimizes the start-up efforts at the customers´ and reduces risks of the production start.

Find your local
Innovation Center!

12Innovation Centers

We are close to our customers wherever they are. With our 12 global Innovation Centers, we drive and accompany you through your innovation journey.

41robots

With various robots from all common manufacturers, we offer a great capacity for development and testing and are an extension of your innovation department.

500test trials per year

We have dedicated robot cells in every Innovation Center. That gives us a huge capacity to do development and testing for our customers.

Self-pierce riveting

Henrob product line

Industrial dispensing

SCA product line

Flow drill fastening

K-Flow product line

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