EuroBLECH 2006 review
MW is focusing a lot of effort on its hot forming
lines. Its newly developed drive for hot forming
presses reduces the installed drive and cooling
power by 20%, estimates the company, at the
same time as increasing output.
In summer 2007, the most powerful servo press
to date, developed by MW, will enter service at the
UmformCenter plant at Erfurt.
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Right:
MW’s Nova
automatic
MW’s digital simulator’s objective is to blanking
increase the efficiency of new and existing machine
press lines is now
available
have to be reduced,” explained Rolf Zimmerman, with a total
Chairman of the Board, to ISMR. The company
automation
wants to reduce its manufacturing costs by 20%.
system
Two topics dominated the MW stand at
EuroBLECH: Press Tuning and Virtual Worlds.
Press Tuning encompasses aspects such as
motion tuning, control tuning and virtual tuning. Spanish manufacturer Nosas SA specialises in
Motion tuning offers its customers a means of brushes and technical rolls for industrial applica-
integrating existing machines within a produc- tions i.e. for iron and steel cold processing lines
tive machine group i.e. MW has taken its SynTec or blank washers on press lines for stamping car
technology and adapted it for retrofitting and now body parts as well as blanking lines for the auto-
offers ‘front-of-line’ and ‘end-of-line’ technology motive market.
modules. Under the concept of ‘control tuning’, Its new products at EuroBLECH included 3M
MW displayed its control centre, a new press mill rolls and HITEC brush rolls. Its 3M mill rolls
control and visualisation platform. Together with are produced with synthetic non-woven fabric
tools for digital simulation (optimising material discs compacted together with, it says, over four
flow within the press in a virtual environment) and times the life of conventional rubber rolls. They
virtual startup of press lines (Virtual Tuning), this minimise surface defects and absorb dirt from the
offers customers intelligent optimisation solutions.
Below: The
metallic strip/sheet.
DigiSim, a feature of the digital simulator, allows Origami The new HITEC brush roll features a cassette
offline programming of the press. bending mounting system, made from pressed and glued
As an example of this, the NOVA automatic machine discs with high density multi-filament bristles.
blanking press, from Beutler NOVA AG, is now
from OEMB
Advantages include cleaner capacity, longer life, the
available with full automation.
“This means that our customers can now produce
parts which leave the press finished,” Benedikt
Schenker, Head of the Engineering Division at
Beutler Nova AG, told ISMR. “The material wast-
age is reduced by up to 30% with the same output.
The machine also opens up new product possi-
bilities, as the parts are cut free from the feedstock
and can then be rotated or turned over. Even
blanked parts with complex geometries can now
be produced as one-operation parts. Thanks to this
press tuning, the speeds of the Nova presses reach
up to 110 strokes per minute.”
Volvo Car Corporation recently ordered its
largest hydraulic press line to date, with robot
automation, from Müller Weingarten. The line will
produce steel and aluminium car body parts and
the press line will start operation at Volvo’s plant
in Olofström in early 2008.
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