THE PRESS AUTOMATICALLY SEPARATES THE FORGED PARTS: GOOD IN ONE BOX, BAD IN ANOTHER!
Differentiated unloading of the forged pieces
The press automatically separates the forged parts and divide them into different boxes. The press has become intelligent!
The differentiated unloading of the forged parts is an interesting function that Mecolpress provides by default on all hydraulic presses, but it can also be added as an option on eccentric mechanical presses.
Hot forging for higher quality of forged parts
The metal hot forging differs from the cold one because it allows you to obtain high quality pieces through an important deformation of the starting material. By working brass, copper, titanium, steel and aluminium by means of hot forging presses, in fact, it is possible to produce particular shapes, even with complex geometries.
The metal hot forging therefore allows to obtain parts that are more resistant than those obtained through other production processes.
In particular, metal hot forging can increase the strength and resistance of the products. For these reasons, the production of hot forged pieces guarantees specific advantages in their mechanical characteristics compared to those produced with other technologies such as casting or mechanical machining with chip removal.
The hot forging, compared to the casting processes, allows to obtain mechanical characteristics and surface appearance of superior quality. We at Mecolpress know it well, so much that we have made “Technology of Shape” our motto.
The piece produced must therefore be perfect, its quality must be certified. For this reason, Mecolpress has designed a system that allows the press automatically separates the perfect forged parts from those to be evaluated as they may not be such.
Why is it so important that the press separates the perfect forged parts from those to be evaluated?
From the automotive sector, the Lean production method teach us:
- Companies can be competitive on small production batches (producing only what is necessary) instead of manufacturing high quantities at low prices, with the risk of keeping high stock levels, are rewarded with success.
- The second must of the “Lean” work methodology is the zeroing of the waste and dispersions, or in other words, of the useless productions because of defected parts.
One of the most recurring needs in our customers is to have an ever more intense control of the forging process: the machine must be able to control as many parameters as possible important for the forging process, record them to make statistical predictions on the deviation from the optimal production, carry out checks.
Mecolpress offers a series of forging presses that fully meet the needs described above: the ME hydraulic series.
The hydraulic presses can control numerous process parameters and on these manage the logic for rejects or collect the measured values for statistical analysis. For example, they can control:
- the temperature of the billets to be loaded,
- the coring punches penetration time,
- the punches real penetration force,
- the final position reached by each punch.
Here you can learn more about the most important process parameters that hydraulic presses are able to evaluate.
The machines of the ME series have the credentials to be competitive in a modern and controlled forging field; they operate at their best on medium / small batches, thanks to their flexibility.
In this video we show how our hydraulic presses perform the differentiated unloading of the forged parts:
The pieces that do not fully comply with the process parameters set by the operator and analysed by our powerful Calipso software to control the forging process, are unloaded in a separate bin.
For the customer this operation translates into an important saving method:
- Less waste of time,
- Less material / pieces to be discarded,
- Be sure that the forged piece complies with the required characteristics,
- Get perfect shapes.
Hot forging presses: Mecolpress technology
Application sectors of the hot forging
Mecolpress offers a wide range of hot forging presses, able to satisfy the necessities of the individual customers and that allow to forge parts for different industrial sectors. Our presses can be used for the production of:
- Thermohydraulic pieces;
- Mechanical parts in aluminum, copper and brass, used in the railway and automotive sector;
- Clothing parts such as buckles and zippers;
- Stainless, titanium and steel screws for applications in any sectors, from the aeronautics to the railway.
The bio-medical one represents a very particular sector, indeed, with our presses it is possible to forge parts for titanium prothesis. The pieces produced by Mecolpress machines address also to the sector of the production and distribution of high-pressure gas, for the medical, automotive and industrial sector.
Not only mechanical presses, here the Mecolpress proposals
A functional commitment that all these sectors have in common undoubtedly is the precision during the material forging, but also from a design point of view Mecolpress reaches through the research for the perfect shapes a remarkable significance. This is exactly why we propose different typologies of presses, including hydraulic presses, mechanical presses, clutch and electrical servomotor screw press, knuckle joint press and trimming machine, that are able to hot forge several materials, including brass, steel, aluminum, titanium and copper.
The support of our Research & Development department
Our range of presses, so differentiated, is due to the work of our Research and Development department, a team that has revealed itself as very precious, not only for Mecolpress Company but also for our customers, because it allows them to achieve several goals. First of all, our staff helps the forger to identify the systems to optimize the production through hot forging of parts in such a way that the further machining will not be needed. Moreover, our specialists can evaluate what could be the productive implications in the usage of different metals alloys and help to identify them. The Research & Development department offers support also for adapting the complete hot forging line composition according to the customer’s needs, to his industrial sector and to the habits of the specific Country.
So, our company is at disposal of the customers in such a way to define with them the hot forging processes, in order to achieve the best result in the production also of high tech parts.
