Marposs offers innovative technologies for machine, tool, and process monitoring, as well as process control across all types of forming, stamping, and forging machines. These monitoring systems also enable faster machine setup, improved efficiency, and higher overall productivity.
Advantages of BRANKAMP in Forming Industry:
- Detect overload conditions and automatically stop the machine to prevent damage and unplanned downtime.
- Continuous Monitoring of tooling (dies and punches) in forging, fastener, and stamping applications to ensure consistent performance.
- Detect quality defects in real time, enabling immediate corrective actions and ensuring High quality parts.
- X-Browser and X-Client software solutions are widely used in the forming industry, fully supporting Industry 4.0 requirements through advanced data connectivity and process monitoring.
Marposs monitoring solutions detect process errors, protect machine and tooling. Cracks on formed parts for example represent a typical production failure that often occurs randomly in work pieces. This type of failures are only detected using in-process monitoring on all parts manufactured.
The Brankamp X-Series are high quality in-process monitoring systems which offer an effective way to observe and control the machine by detecting, right at the deformation stage, part defects or abnormal conditions, to prevent overload or fractures in tool elements.
As soon as a significant change in the process signal occurs, the machine can be stopped as quickly as possible to prevent expensive machine- and tool damage or the defective parts can be sorted out via a sorting gate. Various sorting logics and conditions are available for this purpose.
In production processes, like the forming of hexagon head bolts, collar bolts or nuts, formed parts can be transferred to the next forming stage in an incorrect orientation. Characteristic “ears” or scrapings occur on, e.g. collar screws with hexagonal heads. Sporadically, seldom occurring defects which are often not found during a manual, statistical quality inspection.
The defects can range from slight, hardly noticeable scraping to clear quality defects. The forces during part introduction into the die are very low and therefore represent a particularly high requirement for signal acquisition.
With the newly developed Vario Duo, this sporadically occurring “rotation or inserting” problem can be detected at the existing measuring position using two sensor elements inside one standard sensor body and a special software in an additional monitoring channel. The standard sensor positions prepared by the machine manufacturer can be used without additional preparation. Simple installation or easy upgrade of existing installations is possible. Well monitored processes can run at highest possible speed, damaged parts are sorted out without interruption of production so that a productivity increase will be possible.