Quality Engine components for seamless functioning of engines

If the engine is considered to be the heart of any automotive part, the efficiency and health of the engine depend on the functioning of the various engine components such as cylinder sleeve, cylinders, crankshafts and flywheel. The engine components are known to outlive the engine; for which reason, planning, designing, development and manufacture all play a very important role in defining engine components. Cooper Corporation is a name that everybody is familiar with. As a manufacturing company of over five decades, the company has been re-defining India’s manufacturing story by developing a manufacturing portfolio consisting of generators, engines, engine components consisting of varied capacity and ranges. Product Design and development, manufacture and distribution of engine and engine components for markets within and outside India is their area of core competence.

Cooper Corporation is a market outperformer as a Cylinder Sleeve manufacturer supplying about 175,000 liners to Jaguar and to engine manufacturers like Cummins. Since the Cylinder sleeves form the basis of engines, the company designs and manufactures sleeves depending on the engine specifications; be it, by changing alloys, metallurgy, a thickness of material and accuracy of machining. Since the cylinder sleeves are used for a wide range of applications such as in compressors, generators, agricultural applications and other types of equipments, they are made available in a broad range of bore diameter, length and thickness. So as a Cylinder sleeve manufacturer, Cooper ensures that the sleeves are tailor-made keeping in mind the purpose, application and use and as per the exact specifications that are given by its customers.

Quality control over engine components

Today, the company exports cylinder sleeves and other engine components such as crankshafts or flywheels to equipment manufacturers and engine manufacturers across Africa, China, Europe and Sri Lanka and has of late expanded its horizon to the US markets as well. From agricultural pumps to high-capacity engines with capacity up to 1MW, all of them are manufactured at their own foundry in Satara. Since most of the engine components used for their engines or for the use of OEMs are manufactured indigenously by Cooper Corporation, quality control, standardization of products are possible at every stage. For example: In order to achieve optimal levels of resistance even for high-performance engines, crankshaft manufacturers ensure that the designing, production process etc., is given a lot of consideration. The material used is made of high-quality ductile iron to suit the various industrial applications. The functioning and structure of various modules of the crankshafts such as the crankpins, crank arms or webs, supporting bearings etc., are micro-monitored to support the large load cycles that the crankshafts operate on. To ensure standardization as per international levels, Crankshaft manufacturers conduct stress test and strain analysis in accordance with the load applied on the crankshafts.

The flywheels being the vital components of any automotive engine function as points of power supply from motor to machine by storing rotational energy during the moment of inertia. So when the engine faces loss of momentum, the stored energy is used up by converting into heat energy in the brakes. While the material used for the manufacture of a flywheel depends on the application and industry of use, cast iron, mild steel, composite material like carbon fibre and cast iron followed by a composite material made by marging steel and E-glass fibre are used in the manufacture of flywheels. Since the flywheels vary in diameter, weight and the quality of substance used, the design, manufacturing process and marketing of flywheels to the right target audience plays an important role.

As one of the key manufacturer of engine components, Cooper Corporation has established itself as a global player in the field of manufacturing be it generators, engines or engine components. Today, if the generator sales have a critical user base, the engine component segment attributes to a major chunk of company’s revenues. The company’s rapid expansion and capacity enhancement is the testimony to high skilled labour, qualified personnel, technological advancement and above all commitment to quality and in par with international standards.