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The control cables provide essential functions for any car, such as the opening of doors and windows, or activating the handbrake and accelerator. The process of assembling control cables involves numerous steps and the manufacture of various components, e.g., the spiral, inner and outer coating, spiral terminal, and terminals. This work deals with the injection process of control cable terminals. There is a need to separate the injection set into its constituent parts, namely the terminals and the feeding system (gate), which is carried out manually, potentially leading to health problems, e.g., tendonitis. This paper presents the development of an automated pneumatic system for the separation of control cable terminals from the feeding system. The novel pneumatic system addresses a significant gap in the automation of Zamak terminal injection by handling seven different terminal types under strict spatial limitations. 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