EMO 2019: We unveil the technology of the future!
Mecolpress is ready for EMO 2019, the most important metalworking machinery fair, in Hannover from September 16th to 21st.
Mecolpress has always participated in EMO, the leading trade fair for the metalworking sector.
At each edition we always present some innovations, and this year more than ever!
On the Mecolpress stand there will be the possibility to see 2 machines running!
1- THE BRAND NEW HEAVY 400
Mecolpress will officially present the new HEAVY series of continuous cycle eccentric presses at EMO2019!
Its main features are:
- an extremely innovative and modern structure, more robust and also designed with an eye to ease and accessibility for maintenance and to safety;
- we have completely renewed die automation and lubrication;
- we have mounted a special hydraulic cushion that enhances the ability to forge cored parts, as well as to strongly reduce vibrations and noise;
- as on all our presses, also on the HEAVY series is installed Calipso, the intelligent software of Mecolpress for the analysis of the production process and for predictive maintenance.
The Mecolpress HEAVY Series represents the state of the art in hot forging with eccentric presses and can mount all the most modern accessories, production, programming and control systems.
2- The ME100/4L30 superfast – high productivity hydraulic press.
It is a compact machine, dedicated to the forging of small complex pieces, with an extremely high productivity.
This machine is the latest model of the now known and appreciated Mecolpress ME hydraulic presses, installed all over the world, from Japan to Mexico, from Korea and from China to Germany and Italy.
ME hydraulic presses have been for years a real innovation in the world of hot forging. They allow printing without flash thus significantly reducing material waste.
The ME100 / 4L30, like all Mecolpress hydraulic presses, is equipped with a powerful statistical process control software developed by us, called Calipso.
As stated by the official Hannover Magazine, this year EMO will focus more and more on digitization, with many insights and eyes still on the subject of Industry 4.
Among the most interesting aspects of Industry 4.0 there is undoubtedly the development of the so-called “platform economies”, also Mecolpress in this regard will present a new way of experiencing hot forging machines: connected in the cloud the press becomes intelligent, smart and easily monitored!
We will demonstrate how it is possible to integrate our presses with cloud or local applications that allow to carry out analysis of multiple operating and process parameters, thus representing, through dashboards, a real-time visualization for an optimal understanding of the data collected by the machine.
We will present all this at EMO 2019,
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Mecolpress hydraulic presses solve problems
Choosing the hydraulic presses of ME series for brass hot forging not only gives a technical advantage, but it can also represent a competitive advantage for your Company for the responsiveness on the market and for the speed your Company can reacts with to the unexpected necessities of the market.
This is the case of a customer of ours, Italian, based in Brescia, brass forger as subcontractor supplier for many years, with an increasing success thanks to the long experience of both the Company management and of the people in charge of the productive departments, first and foremost the brass hot forging one.
Experience and availability anytime
For years, quietly, without overdoing, but with perseverance and professionalism, our customer could manage optimally the different situations of the group, between forging and mechanical machining. Even if he is always looking for the hardest, most technical and logistic challenging orders, he could gain his position of full respect in the panorama of subcontractors (that are many in our province).
And in order to keep a high level of service and to receive in return a high loyalty of the customers, sometimes it is necessary to be able to take important decisions, in a very short time.
It happened so: in mid-November 2018, 15 days after they ordered us a 450 tons continuous cycle mechanical eccentric press, our customer had a meeting with one of his most important German customers, a very well-known company in the heating sector and civil hydraulic plants, who put on the table a series of new parts, in a brass alloy they invented, for which no one had forging experience.
In short, a challenge for our customer:
“These are the new parts to produce, the sizes go from the small junction to the one that weights various kilos, and if you want the order you must be able to produce the whole range, and be ready to start in very short time”
The customer came to us asking indications on the forging technique for this alloy with high copper content, in order to know which press and which energies are necessaries, but also which furnace and which temperature would be necessary.
Our reaction was making available what we always have in our company, since we are always ready for these eventualities: hot forging presses, induction and gas heating furnaces, and obviously all the collaboration of our staff. We immediately organized some forging tests and realized first samples of the parts: thanks to Calipso system for process data collecting and analysis, our customer could understand which forces and temperatures are needed for forging this special copper alloy.
Last minute solution of Mecolpress
All this process has also led to understand that the new press just ordered by our customer would not be suitable for these products, that in order to be efficiently forged, need an accurate check of the material flow in the die.
The solution? Turning the order of an eccentric press at continuous cycle into a hydraulic press of ME series, that thanks to its construction technology and to a sophisticated software, permits a total programming of the forging process.
Moreover, at Mecolpress the hydraulic presses are available with very short delivery time, even starting from 4 weeks for some models. This happens because, with the market experience we have accumulated in years and after many sold presses, we are able to anticipate the customer’s needs and to have quite ready the presses we will sell in the future.
Then, our customer could go back to his German customer and confirm him that just in 3 months from the date of their first meeting, he would be able to satisfy him, with a new forging line, at high technology, dedicated to his product and able to grant the quality of the forged parts.
A won challenge for our customer, and a satisfaction for us for having helped him and to reinforce his imagine of supplier of very high reliability among his customers.
