THE FORGED PARTS: GOOD IN ONE BOX, BAD IN ANOTHER!

THE PRESS AUTOMATICALLY SEPARATES THE FORGED PARTS: GOOD IN ONE BOX, BAD IN ANOTHER!

Differentiated unloading of the forged pieces

The press automatically separates the forged parts and divide them into different boxes. The press has become intelligent!

The differentiated unloading of the forged parts is an interesting function that Mecolpress provides by default on all hydraulic presses, but it can also be added as an option on eccentric mechanical presses.

Hot forging for higher quality of forged parts

The metal hot forging differs from the cold one because it allows you to obtain high quality pieces through an important deformation of the starting material. By working brass, copper, titanium, steel and aluminium by means of hot forging presses, in fact, it is possible to produce particular shapes, even with complex geometries.

The metal hot forging therefore allows to obtain parts that are more resistant than those obtained through other production processes.

In particular, metal hot forging can increase the strength and resistance of the products. For these reasons, the production of hot forged pieces guarantees specific advantages in their mechanical characteristics compared to those produced with other technologies such as casting or mechanical machining with chip removal.

The hot forging, compared to the casting processes, allows to obtain mechanical characteristics and surface appearance of superior quality. We at Mecolpress know it well, so much that we have made “Technology of Shape” our motto.

The piece produced must therefore be perfect, its quality must be certified. For this reason, Mecolpress has designed a system that allows the press automatically separates the perfect forged parts from those to be evaluated as they may not be such.

Why is it so important that the press separates the perfect forged parts from those to be evaluated?

From the automotive sector, the Lean production method teach us:

  • Companies can be competitive on small production batches (producing only what is necessary) instead of manufacturing high quantities at low prices, with the risk of keeping high stock levels, are rewarded with success.
  • The second must of the “Lean” work methodology is the zeroing of the waste and dispersions, or in other words, of the useless productions because of defected parts.

One of the most recurring needs in our customers is to have an ever more intense control of the forging process: the machine must be able to control as many parameters as possible important for the forging process, record them to make statistical predictions on the deviation from the optimal production, carry out checks.

Mecolpress offers a series of forging presses that fully meet the needs described above: the ME hydraulic series.

The hydraulic presses can control numerous process parameters and on these manage the logic for rejects or collect the measured values ​​for statistical analysis. For example, they can control:

  • the temperature of the billets to be loaded,
  • the coring punches penetration time,
  • the punches real penetration force,
  • the final position reached by each punch.

Here you can learn more about the most important process parameters that hydraulic presses are able to evaluate.

The machines of the ME series have the credentials to be competitive in a modern and controlled forging field; they operate at their best on medium / small batches, thanks to their flexibility.

In this video we show how our hydraulic presses perform the differentiated unloading of the forged parts:

The pieces that do not fully comply with the process parameters set by the operator and analysed by our powerful Calipso software to control the forging process, are unloaded in a separate bin.

For the customer this operation translates into an important saving method:

  1. Less waste of time,
  2. Less material / pieces to be discarded,
  3. Be sure that the forged piece complies with the required characteristics,
  4. Get perfect shapes.

And is your forging “smart”?

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Industria 4.0 stampaggio

Industry 4.0

Hot forging becomes 4.0.

Our machines meet the requirements of industry 4.0.

The ME series hot forging hydraulic presses allow to control the speed, the sequence, the stroke and the force of each punch, allowing to print without any burr even some of the most complicated shapes. The production phases are programmed and monitored to get the best shape.

WHAT WE PROPOSE WITH OUR INDUSTRY 4.0 MACHINES?

  • We program what the press must do;
  • We program tolerance limits around a test cycle;
  • We can control what the machine has actually done;
  • The system verifies that the process is stable and identifies irregular anomalies or tendencies of deviation;
  • We supervise and record parameters for at least 10,000 cycles;
  • We provide a graphical representation of the process;
  • All information can be sent to an external PC for further evaluation, registration and quality assurance purposes;
  • The machine can send personalized messages to the supervisor, via email, to have full control over the performance of the equipment.

RESULT:

  • To get precise analyzes and to make correct decisions;
  • Have an automatic selection between compliant printed parts and irregular parts.

By ordering one of our machines you will be able to take advantage of the 250% hyper-depreciation. Contact us for further information

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