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HEMMING
Hemming is a process which consists in joining two sheet metal parts by
plastic deformation. A metal sheet edge of an outer part is bent around an
inner part by hemming to create a hem. This process is depicted in Figure 2.
To hem closures, several technologies are available on the market, such as
press-and-die, table-top, and roller hemming
Robot roller hemming was introduced at the market in the late nineties. A
roller is guided along a product by a robot which bends the outer part around
the inner part. This makes the process suitable for the production of many
different parts, as it can simply be re-programmed for other products. In the
roller hemming process a robot guides the roller along the product to bends
the outer panel over the inner panel, see Figure 3.
. Complete products can be hemmed with the same roller.Also more robots
can be applied in the hemming of a product to speed up the hemming process.