Product category:
Power presses, hydraulic
News Release from: Dieffenbacher Automation | Subject: Hydraulic presses
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 July 2001
Automotive supplier invests in two press
lines
Automotive industry Tier 2 supplier, Weser Metall Umformtechnik near Kassel, Germany, has invested DM4.6m (GBP1.44m) in two automated tandem press lines.
Automotive industry Tier 2 supplier, Weser Metall Umformtechnik near Kassel, Germany, has invested DM4.6m (GBP1.44m) in two automated tandem press lines Dieffenbacher Automation supplied the lines and orchestrated the automation
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 19 Jul 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The project involved the interfacing of 17 FANUC part-handling robots with 11 power presses.
Weser1s investment is typical of the press shop modernisation that is happening around Europe.
OEMs want sequenced, just-in-time delivery of pressings and fabricated assemblies.
Weser decided to automate the press shop and speed up tool changeovers and so shorten production campaigns and so reduce in-house stocks.
Weser has also adopted Dieffenbacher Automation1s PC-based Superset Line Control using ProfiBus technology.
The Superset covers centralised start-up and shutdown of a press line and centralised management of press line setting parameters.
The system overviews sheet blank stocks, the FANUC blank-loading robots, blank lubrication, the co-ordination of robot programs and automated zero-setting.
Detailed screen graphics simplify error detection by showing the status of all presses.
Dieffenbacher1s main activity has been in the automation of existing press lines and the supply of new press lines to the domestic appliances industry.
Lately, the company has turned its attention towards the automotive scene.
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