FORMING AND FABRICATING AUTOMATION
Motor Town Supplier Adds Servo Transfer Press to Sustain its Rhythm
A nd sets them down like transfer system to a 2600-ton press. Results are impressivepress speed and OEE have doubled. Transfer System "Picks Up Parts Like a Baby ... snowflakes." That's how one engineer describes his company's recent retrofit of a three-axis servo
N ew servo transfer capabilities.
press adds capacity,
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The difference between a progressive die and a transfer die press is primarily how the part is moved from station to station. Instead of having carrier tabs that carry the part all the way to the end of the progressive die and then are cut off at the end, the blank is formed as it goes through the tools. Finger tools pick it up and move it.
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Optimizing Transfer-System Motion—The Money is in SPM S imulation of transfer-press motion only to verify interference-free processing isn’t good enough. Stampers should aim to optimize motion curves, following the advice offered here, to eke out additional strokes/min. (SPM) from their transfer presses.
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