Branson GPX Welding Platform

Emerson has introduced heat staking technology designed to give manufacturers greater design freedom by enabling them to join more complex, delicate, and sensitive components to plastic moldings. Using a unique pulse staking technology that optimizes the heat staking process, the Branson GPX platform produces high-quality joins, superior product aesthetics, and energy savings in increasingly challenging applications.

Electronics, automotive, and medical device manufacturers must produce more creative designs to meet rapidly changing market demand. This has led to an increase in challenging heat staking applications involving parts with more complex 3D geometries, closely aligned features, and fragile or heat-sensitive components, such as soldered components or sensors, and using a greater number of blended, glass-reinforced, chromed, and metallicized plastics.

The Branson GPX platform uses PulseStaker technology to provide instantaneous heating and cooling, with adjustable cycle times for optimized, low energy heat staking. The process creates no particulates or burn marks, and enables more delicate and sensitive parts, such as those with embedded electronics, to be joined with consistently high-performance finishes.

The advanced technology is suitable for all heat staking applications, including those with thermoplastic materials and metalized coated parts. A wide range of heat staking tip designs, which can be adapted to meet any stake welding requirement, and the ability to stake multiple points simultaneously provide manufacturers with greater design freedom.