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My New Home: Elbow grease rubs new life into East Memphis cottage
The house was a total wreck, but Kyle Newman saw something in it.His new wife Anna Newman? Not so much."I was a little worried," Anna said of Kyle's enthusiasm about the 1,100-square-foot East Memphis place.What Anna saw was dirty carpet, water-damaged ceilings and a front corner of the house that had caved in after being struck by a tree limb from a neighboring yard.What Kyle saw was potential ...
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A customized hydraulic press has been dancing around the fabricating industry for many years. Tailored to specific needs, the features and options of each press are chosen by the user to perform a specific application such as blanking, coining, compression molding, forming, punching or stamping. Each customer becomes part of the design team, working with the machine tool builder to incorporate the speeds, bed size, tonnage, stroke and any specialty options to best meet production goals.
Choosing hydraulics over mechanical operations provides the additional benefits of minimizing the footprint and reducing the overall investment. Hydraulics allow the generation of high forces in a compact area, reducing the overall structure and mechanism required for support of the force actuators. A mechanical press of the same tonnage is a larger machine requiring significantly more space and upping the initial investment. The number and variety of custom-designed hydraulic presses available at any given time is virtually limitless. Each machine is the product of a fresh design, making the most recent machine shipped from the manufacturer virtually the newest model.
In some cases, the customer brings more to the design table than his forming requirements. For example, Acuity Brands Lighting'¬s Indiana production facility worked with Beckwood Press Co. to integrate press bed rollers to minimize die setup time for its latest press. Acuity, the world's largest manufacturer of lighting fixtures, has 24 manufacturing facilities throughout North America and Europe. Products include indoor and outdoor lighting for commercial, institutional, industrial, infrastructure and residential applications. Architects, contractors, energy service companies and maintenance personnel alike are familiar with Acuity brands that include Lithonia Lighting, Hydrel, Peerless, MetalOptics and Carandini.
Corporate-wide emphasis at Acuity continually focuses on creating a leaner, more effective organization to support efficient production and new product development. Part of that focus is to make machine purchases and initiate processes that increase capacity without increasing headcount. In 2006, the company's efforts were rewarded with a 12 percent increase in customer orders.
Ronald Knight, product manager at Acuity's Crawfordsville plant, explains that 15 of the company's newest presses have been fitted with computerized "smart die systems" to reduce die changeover time. Additional features of the newest Beckwood press include a 35-ton capacity, a 30-in. press stroke and 36-in.-by 36-in. bolsters. Optimum speeds for the application were determined to be 440 ipm on approach, 36 ipm for press and 44 ipm for return. Several design elements work toward time- and labor- saving goals. Bed rollers provided by Acuity were integrated into the design to assist with quick die change. A new safety light curtain incorporating a four-corner mirror system eliminates the guards with safety interlocks, increasing productivity while still safeguarding operators.
"We asked Beckwood for a larger control transformer for integration with our smart die system," Knight explains. "We had them change the swing-out pedestal to give the operator a little more usability. Operators love the quick die change and the light curtain. The setup men love this press."
Knight has seen value in investing in custom presses. "The benefits to customization are not buying what we don't need," he says. "With our last press purchase we didn't need the standard 100-ton press. We needed a 35-ton press with a 30-in. stroke and larger bed size. Why waste money on extra options or a higher capacity press?"
For more information on this process, please see Beckwood's article in the March 2007 edition of FF Journal (or contact us for a free issue).
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