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News Release from: Shear-Form Machine Tools | Subject: Dimeco Flexipunch punching unit
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 January 2005
Flexible punching line works on coiled
stock
A flexible punching unit that operates in 2-, 4- or 6-axis can be combined with cold roll forming to produce trays, racking, purloins and frames directly from coiled metals stock.
Continuous coil punching in 2 axis, 6 axis or 2 and 6 axis, and monitored by state of the art servo controls systems, are features of the new Flexipunch punching unit from French coil processing equipment manufacturer Dimeco Alipresse The machines are now available in the United Kingdom through Shear-Form Machine Tools, the Coventry based sheet metal and plate working machinery supplier and Dimecos sole representative in the UK
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Flexible punching on coil up to 1.025mm wide and up to 120 tooling selections using traverse tooling under the press ram, 360 deg rotary tool cassettes and large linear size tools across the coil width plus strip feeding give the users of Flexipunch the opportunity to punch highly sophisticated shapes, whilst the fully integrated shear can cut-to-length components up to 14m long and over.
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Components up to 4mm thick in steel, aluminium, stainless steel as well as pre-painted materials and HSLA can be punched ?head to foot separated by notching and micro joints reducing scrap coil to an absolute minimum.
The 2 axis unit has a punching capacity up to 400kN (40tonf) using a selection of 40 tools for flexible punching across the coil width combining the X-axis of the strip feed and the Y-axis of the traverse motion of the tool cassette under the press ram, which can hold up to 10 tool cassettes installed opposite each other.
Also included are large size tooling and a shear for cut-to-length operations.
Both axis are monitored by Dimeco's Flexo-Star 370 2-axis servo control.
The 6-axis unit has a punching capacity up to 1000kN (100tonf) at infinite variable speeds from 70-120cm/min in strip widths up to 1.025mm using up to 120 different tooling selections, including up to four tool guides installed opposite each other, rotary axis tooling as well as large size tooling.
A Siemens 840 D servo controlled system through large colour graphics, pre-programmed functions and Windows CE operating software with Profibus and Ethernet network connections monitors the 6 axis and controls the complete line.
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