Brand | CREATEK®

CREATEK Machining Center

Over 10 Professional Engineers

Constant-temperature and Constant-humidity Machining Workshop

World-Class Machining Equipment

Intelligent Deburring & Robotic Cleaning Systems

The CREATEK machining center is staffed by dozens of experienced engineers and equipped with advanced production systems, including Germany-imported Heckert HEC 800 horizontal machining centers, high-precision CNC honing machines, and other state-of-the-art equipment.

We are capable of flexible small-batch, multi-category machining for components such as engine blocks, cylinder heads, and air compressor cylinder blocks, fully meeting diverse customer production requirements. Through strict control of key processing stages, we ensure consistent product quality and long-term stability. The center also integrates advanced Japanese MAKINO machining systems and German GEHRING honing equipment to achieve superior surface finish and dimensional accuracy.

Machining Center

The Machining Center conducts precision machining for cast parts like engine cylinder block, cylinder head, and air compressor cylinder block. Reasonable process routes are mapped out based on various products technical demands. Cylinder holes, main bearing holes, camshaft bores, position pin holes, oil seal seat holes and different surfaces can be precisely machined to improve the engine’s assembling precision and working performance, and optimize product quality.

Development Advantages

Constant-temperature and constant-humidity workshop reduces the impact of thermal expansion and contraction against cylinder block precision machining.

The product precision is improved with the SANDVIK tools and MAPAL combination structure.

SVQ self-lock clamps and auxiliary support design can prevent local clamping, which is likely to cause extrusion deformation of cylinder block.

Cylinder Block Precision Machining

Cylinder block machining follows the principles below: reference surfaces are machined first before subsequent processes; surfaces are machined before holes; rough machining is separated from precision machining, and processes are concentrated. In addition, reasonable process routes are mapped out.

Fully Automated Intelligent Cleaning System

This cleaning line integrates automatic loading, turbulent spray cleaning, robotic precision washing, air blowing, and vacuum drying processes. Combined with AGV intelligent transfer systems, it can be seamlessly connected to assembly lines. Equipped with a three-stage filtration system, the line consistently achieves high-standard cleanliness for engine blocks, cylinder heads, and housings. It effectively removes micro-scale machining residues, improves assembly quality and system stability, reduces early powertrain failures, and extends product service life.

Automated Precision Leak Testing

The production line is equipped with two dedicated testing units using Japanese COSMO air-tightness testing systems and servo hydraulic sealing technology to perform fully enclosed leak tests on coolant, oil, and air channels. Each channel is tested independently, allowing precise detection of potential defects in castings, machining, and sealing processes. This rigorous inspection ensures compliance with high-level sealing standards and guarantees long-term operational reliability.

Intelligent Robotic Press-Fitting Process

Guided by a vision recognition system, robots perform integrated operations such as adhesive application, core plug pressing, and camshaft bushing installation. During assembly, servo systems monitor interference fits and positioning parameters in real time, ensuring structural consistency through digital precision control. This significantly improves reliability under high-load operating conditions for core components.

Zoller High-Precision Tool Presetter

This system consists of a measuring head, base unit, signal processing module, and digital display system. Using advanced micron-level measurement technology and high-precision sensors, it enables accurate pre-setting and verification of tool position, length, and diameter before installation on CNC machines. This high-precision pre-setting system significantly reduces tool change and machine setup time, lowers production costs, and ensures stable dimensional accuracy for CREATEK engine blocks and cylinder heads.

CNC Cutting Tools & Intelligent Tool Management System

CREATEK adopts world-leading cutting tool brands such as SANDVIK (Sweden) and MAPAL (Germany), providing industry-leading machining solutions for precision operations. These high-performance tools are primarily used in critical finishing areas such as crankshaft bores, camshaft bores, valve guides, and valve seats, ensuring machining stability and quality consistency. The selection of these global premium brands is essential to maintaining micron-level precision and long-term reliability throughout the entire service life of engine components.

CREATEK Automated Production Line

This production line is dedicated to the manufacturing of clutch driven discs (driven plate assemblies) and clutch pressure plates (cover assemblies). The entire production system and quality control framework comply with the IATF 16949 automotive quality management standard, enabling multi-specification mixed-model production on a single line. The production line integrates stamping, machining, heat treatment, automatic assembly, in-line inspection, intelligent logistics, and digital control systems into a fully automated manufacturing process. It covers all components including pressure plate housings, diaphragm springs, drive plates, friction facings, damper hubs, rivets, and bolts. With centralized control via PLC and MES systems, and supported by industrial robots and vision positioning technology, the system performs material handling, picking, and assembly operations, replacing traditional manual assembly lines. This ensures stable material properties, consistent product precision, and improved manufacturing efficiency.

Clutch Driven Disc Automated Production Line

This production line is deeply integrated with a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and equipped with ABB industrial robots and multiple dedicated inspection systems, enabling full-process automated manufacturing of clutch driven discs.

With real-time scheduling and data acquisition capabilities of the MES system, the line covers key performance testing such as bedding-in characteristics, torsional rigidity, friction plate clamping force, drag performance, and dynamic balance. All process parameters, inspection results, and equipment status are recorded and uploaded in real time, enabling full lifecycle traceability for each individual product.

Clutch Driven Disc Automated Production Line

Durability Test Bench

This test bench is primarily used to evaluate the strength and wear resistance of clutch discs and pressure plates. Through extreme operating condition testing (maximum torsional angle) and over 5 million durability cycles, it provides reliable data for product development, design validation, and production quality inspections. In addition, the clutch cover assembly test bench simulates severe thermal operating conditions to verify release force and clamp load, ensuring stable performance and minimal performance degradation throughout the product's service life.

Spring Sorting System

To minimize the impact of manufacturing variations on product performance (which can reach up to 8%), CREATEK utilizes an automated spring sorting system to inspect spring height and load characteristics. Springs are precisely classified based on dimensional consistency and load variation (<10 N), followed by color-coded matching for accurate assembly. This process ensures uniform load distribution, reduces abnormal wear caused by uneven stress, and significantly improves the stability and service life of the clutch assembly.

Wave Spring Sorting System

As a critical component of the clutch's axial damping system, the quality of the wave spring directly affects clutch engagement smoothness. CREATEK employs an automated inspection and sorting system to accurately measure and classify elasticity, thickness, and flatness, ensuring precise component matching. By improving assembly consistency, this process enhances pressure plate flatness, minimizes wear and vibration, and further improves driving comfort and overall product durability.

Clutch Pressure Plate Automated Production Line

The clutch pressure plate assembly line integrates core processes including diaphragm spring inspection, release finger adjustment, comprehensive performance testing, SCHENCK dynamic balancing, ATLAS dual-axis tightening, and servo hydraulic riveting.

By strictly controlling key quality parameters, the system ensures that core performance indicators meet or exceed assembly requirements, achieving highly automated, intelligent, and high-quality production of clutch critical components.

Clutch Pressure Plate Automated Production Line

Advanced sorting and grading equipment enables precise automated matching of key components. Through dimensional and performance-based classification, assembly tolerances are significantly reduced, internal fit accuracy is optimized, and the risk of component failure over the product lifecycle is minimized, while overall assembly performance and durability are improved.

The cover assembly and driven disc durability test benches are designed for new product mass-production validation and batch sampling inspection. They conduct high-intensity fatigue durability tests of up to 3 million cycles and 5 million cycles respectively to accurately verify product reliability and service life. This dual testing system ensures consistent product quality, stable performance, and extended service life for all clutch products.

CREATEK Assembly

CREATEK Assembly Department is mainly engaged in the production of engine, turbocharger, air compressor, differential, and other assembly accessories. With years of spare parts knowledge accumulation, CREATEK integrated experienced employees, constantly make assembly process innovation, and formulate technical standards on interference fit and gap fit to guarantee important gaps of key parts and improve the overall assembly performance.

The Assembly Department has the Kistler servo press, Atlas Copco tightening system, Schenck high-speed dynamic balancing machine, comprehensive performance testing bench of vehicle air compressors, comprehensive performance test bench of engines, and other highly-sophisticated equipment. By introducing a series of intelligent and interlinked equipment and tools, CREATEK formulated advanced assembly solutions to efficiently obtain valuable data from each stage of the production process (from design, prototype verification to assembly), and further embark on the road to building an intelligent factory.

Engine Assembly Line

The CREATEK assembly line, supported by experienced technical engineers and supporting resources in the industry, is equipped with core assembly equipment (including high-precision bolt tightening machine, automatic pressing machine, and automatic gluing machine) and test equipment such as a comprehensive engine test bench. Before assembly, the cylinder body, cylinder cover, and crankshaft have been ultrasonically cleaned to ensure the cleanliness of the assembly effectively. During assembly, an accurate group measurement was carried out for each component. Two groups of moving components of the same set have been grouped again to achieve uniform weight and dimensional tolerance, improve the movement smoothness of the components, protect the moving components and their surrounding accessories from being damaged, reduce the power loss/failure rate, prolong the overall service life and improve the production efficiency.

Air Compressor Assembly Line

CREATEK air compressor optimizes and upgrades the material and process of core components, intake and exhaust system and cooling system, with low wear rate, low exhaust temperature and low oil consumption. Control the assembly process of double-cylinder compressor, make the weight grouping of two cylinders’ moving components, improve the smoothness of the movement, protect the moving components, prevent the damage of peripheral accessories, reduce the failure rate, and achieve the precise control of technical parameters. It is equipped with professional equipment such as tightening machine, pressing machine, comprehensive testing bench to improve the quality and detection ability of the product assembly process.

Turbocharger Assembly Line

CREATEK turbocharger power range is 290-460HP and applicable to the diesel engines of Euro II to Euro VI. Turbocharger is a precision assembly and requires high cleanliness of the parts. Before assembly, parts need to be deeply cleaned. The tightening machine and balancing machine are equipped to control the tightening, seal ring transmittance, axial clearance and radial clearance during the assembly process, adjust the opening pressure of the bypass valve, and perform dynamic balance detection on the core moving components to meet the technical requirements.