Schleuniger Helps Total Quality
Instrumentation Maximize Quality
and Increase Process Times!
Total Quality Instrumentation, Inc. (TQI) located in Cookeville, TN., manufactures
a variety of products that support the automobile development and heavy trucking
industries. These include but are not limited to, wiring harnesses and instrumentation
solutions. With a primary mission to provide the highest possible quality products, it is
important to TQI that they have the right equipment in place to accurately process their
applications at its 10,000 plus square foot facility.
In 2015, TQI purchased their first piece of
Schleuniger equipment, a UniCrimp 100
benchtop crimping machine. Prior to that,
most of their applications were done by hand.
When the demand required that they automate
more of their wiring processes, they looked to
Schleuniger for help. “It just makes sense for
us to use Schleuniger equipment; it’s durable
and doesn’t break,” says TQI President, Richard
Grogan. Over a period of two years the company
purchased several more UniCrimp 100 machines,
a StripCrimp 200 stripping and crimping
machine, a SawInspect System 6 for crimp
quality assurance, and two MultiStrip 9480 cut
and strip machines.
Because TQI makes engine dynamometer wiring
harnesses, they are required to precisely cut and
strip to length a variety of wire sizes and colors.
The MultiStrip 9480 provides the flexibility they
unparalleled,” says Grogan. “It strips and crimps the
need to deliver the highest quality products to their
wire to perfection. There is no terminal distortion,
customers. According to Grogan, “The accuracy of the which gives us a dialed in, repeatable standard.”
MultiStrip 9480 prevents recuts and the durability of Grogan expects that as the need for smaller wires
the rollers is unmatched. And because your software
continues to grow, TQI will need to invest in more
integrates with Microsoft Excel, we are able to send
stripping and crimping machines.
the production list to the machine where the operator
can follow simple instructions to load the material,
It is clear to Total Quality Instrumentation, that
run the product, and rapidly move to final assembly.“ Schleuniger helps them achieve their main objective;
to provide the highest quality products and services.
By integrating Schleuniger equipment throughout
Grogan adds, “Schleuniger solves a problem, instead
their manufacturing process, TQI was able to yield an making one.”
estimated 40-50% decrease in their overall process
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time! “The accuracy of the StripCrimp 200 is
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