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KACE fans are some of the most prolific parts in the pc hardware industry and are branded by dozens of companies but only a handful source the parts and make their own fans in the house in today's factory tour we'll be looking at how PC case fans are actually manufactured and assembled the manufacturing process will be demonstrated by the deep cool semi-automated fan manufacturing plant at deep cools Shenzhen China location where the company manufactures its own liquid cooling and fan products from scratch it has also begun building out CNC equipment to build operations for a cold plate manufacturing and starting later this year but today we're focusing on the fans if you didn't know deep cool also manufactures components for other brands major ones that you're likely familiar with serving as a sort of supplier for air cooling parts for other aspects of the industry today's focus is on fan manufacturing with future videos focused on how liquid cooling and air cooling parts are made 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any dust particles are removed prior to entry visitors and workers also must wear anti dust covers on their shoes to prevent tracking in any unwanted dust deep pool requires these processes to ensure dust doesn't enter these sensitive fan bearings or motors where specks of dust could create a whining noise coming from inside of the fan motor deep pools are old man you in line assembled products by hand and is still operating but the process takes longer than with the new automated approach the new approach uses a machine that does the work of eight technicians and is aided by a handful of operators to ensure the process goes smoothly the first step of the process is for for workers to hand soldered fan cables to the PCBs where workstations equipped with exhaust bands ensure the solder fumes are whisked away from the workers each station is equipped with a soldering irons and soldering equipment along with a tray of the components being soldered for that day the completed PCBs are placed into trays that eventually move on to the assembly line where operators begin assembling the PCB and fan frame into a single units and the frame it gets placed onto an automated conveyor belt that carries the frame down the line eventually encountering a machine which picks up the frame and places it into a tray to firmly secure the fan body at the same time as this happens an operator loads fan blades onto another conveyor belt where a series of hydraulic arms equipped with suction cups move the fan blades from one belt to another while the blades are moving down the opposing conveyor belt the fan blades move through a series of laser-guided processes to assemble and secure the internals of the hub the electromagnet is already installed at this point so the first steps include pressing the hub assembly tighter so that it's more secure than moving it down the line for installation of a gasket the gasket comes from a circular hopper where gaskets move around these circular hopper until they're fed to an arm that fits the gasket onto the hub the next item in the line is another hopper this one filled with bearings that go through another laser guided process of installation a claw grabs the bearing and fits it into the fan at which point the fans are then picked up by suction cups and moved down to another position in the metal frames lubricant is soon applied and then the fan blade is moved from the opposing sides conveyor belts and into a carrier from here it's moved via suction cuff to the fan body and then dropped into the hub the body is then moved down the line once more moving from one carrier into another there's metal frames that hold the fan frame and this fan now contains a blade it's also moved into the center of the machine so that another tool can press pits the blade onto the fan securely and tighten the two together at this point the deep cool gam acts four hundred fan is complete and can be moved down the line the fans are dropped onto a conveyor belt and automatically funneled into a low noise test chamber where technicians physically listen to the fan from multiple different angles up-down and vertical to check for any more subjective or undesirable wines or Homs this testing is done as 100% PWM signal or maximum speed and after this the fans are conveyed out of the room within a room to a testing station that's manned by another operator the operator connects the fan to a power source that's built into the table and the source spins up the blades to 30% PWM signal at which point the PWM signal quality is tested against a specified requirement for quality control using scopes and other testing equipment bad fans if they are encountered are bend aside for later inspection and may be reclaiming some of the parts although these are rare and the rest of them continue to get boxed in packaging in another room this completes the PC case fan manufacturing process at deep pools Shenzhen Factory the process is similar at other fan factories it's just that deep Cole has implemented its automated line earlier than some motors and PCBs are made by partners as specified through the manufacturer they're fed through the assembly line and then they're put together either by hand or by machine in the case of deep cool the company hopes to add more automated lines in the future to increase production capabilities its automated fan assembly is relatively new and is still getting regular tweaks so next time we show this it'll probably be quite a bit different soon though the company hopes to see why to roll out across other product lines and across partner lines for products that deep cool makes for some of its industry partners make sure you're subscribed to get notified about our other upcoming content like a gigabyte factory tour deep cool air cooling and liquid cooling factory walkthrough and some more EVGA content you should also check out the kingpin overclocking lab tour if you haven't as always you can 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