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Servo-Driven Mechanical Presses
Komatsu America Industries LLC Booth 3521
Komatsu America Industries, Rolling Meadows, IL, showcases its servo presses and will have booth personnel on hand to discuss its installed base of more than 2500 single- and multipoint straight- side servo presses. Under power at the booth will be a Model H2W 300, a 330- two-point mechanical servo press featuring independent drives. The firm’s servo presses—with capacities from 35 to 2500 tons—feature slide accuracy and repeatability measured in microns, as well as fully programma- ble slide velocity and dwell for optimum throughput and control of reverse loading. www.komatsupress.com
New Progressive Blank Companion for Advanced Stampers
Logopress3, Accurate Die Design, Inc. Booth 3223
Logopress Corp., Besancon, France, along with its North American technical center and distributor Accurate Die Design, Inc., New Berlin, WI, will introduce a new and inno- vative add-in to its latest Solid- Works-based Logopress3 Blank 2011 version. This new add-in, called Progressive Blank Com- panion, allows designers to model the complex intermediate stages of a formed part more than 10
times faster than without it. Logopress3 Blank flat-blank prediction and FEA software is included with Logopress3 die-design software and also
is available as a standalone package.
Press-Feed Controller Boasts
Enhanced Touchscreen Interface
Coe Press Equipment Booth 3348
www.logopress3.com
Coe Press Equipment, Sterling Heights, MI,
will feature its new ServoMaster Touch con-
troller, which includes a user-friendly 5.7-in.
VGA color touchscreen interface with cus-
tomizable operator screens. New features of
the controller include streamlined entry of
machine setup information and enhance-
ments to the operator prompts, machine
diagnostics and serial communications to the
press controls. Additional capabilities include
production data reporting of feed cycles and material usage, and downloading of setup data or job number selection. Its multiaxis capabilities include push-pull, zig-zag and tailout configurations. Auxiliary functions achievable through its servo-feed automa- tion feature include motorized and encoded passline height, motorized and encoded automatic edge guides, feed-roll pressure control and material support table position.
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