Assembly Press suits quality test labs and plant floor.
Press Release Summary:
Great White stand-alone, CNC electro-mechanical assembly press has built-in, on-board force and distance sensors and offers 27,000 lb capacity. Encoder-equipped servo motor drives ball-screw ram with intelligence to accept signals from external sensors and gages. Press can simultaneously monitor and control force and position, as well as take in other external sensor information. It operates on Promess software and includes GUI for set-up.Original Press Release:
"Great White," A Servo Controlled, Ball Screw Type 27,000 lb. Capacity Assembly Press For Quality Test Labs and Manufacturing Operations Developed By Promess
BRIGHTON, Mich,, Sept. 23 - Promess, Inc. has introduced "Great White," a new, stand-alone CNC electro-mechanical assembly press and test machine for use in both quality laboratory and plant floor assembly operations.
The new assembly machine has a 27,000 lb. capacity and brings the same kind of closed-loop precision and repeatability to press-assembly operations that CNC machine tools bring to metalcutting operations.
The new Promess machine is designed for a variety of uses, including production, off-line testing, quality and lab development work, training and back up.
Typical applications include a wide variety of multi-press demands, such as press-to-a-force/position, pull-to-a-force/position, and part testing, all at the same station. Springs, check valves, shock absorbers, anti-lock brakes, oxygen sensors and fluid measurements -- where force relative to position is critical -- fit this category.
A graphic process certification of each manufactured part is available, if required. Multi parts, multi ID systems, multi force, multi positions, multi direction and multi sensors are the platform design for this flexible assembly press and closed loop measuring system.
The new machine's electro-mechanical press has built-in, on-board force and distance sensors. It uses an encoder-equipped servo motor to drive a ball-screw ram that has the intelligence to take in a variety of signals from external sensors and gages.
Unlike older mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic assembly presses, the Promess CNC electro-mechanical assembly press technology is the foundation for truly intelligent assembly operations that offer new levels of quality, productivity and flexibility.
The assembly press's ability to simultaneously monitor and control both force and position -- and take in other external sensor information as well -- enables new strategies which promise to change quality assurance from reactive to an in-process, proactive concept.
The electro-mechanical assembly press operates on easy-to-use Promess software (faster than Windows and other software programs) and features a graphical user interface for quick set-up or changeovers. The system includes integrated sensing and
indicators that can be operated with the push of a button or the click of a mouse.
Options on the new machine include external position sensors, bar code input capability, enclosures, touch screen and others.
September 23, 2003
Contact:
Doug Drummond, NES
Hope Hirth
Promess Incorporated
11429 E. Grand River
Brighton, MI 48116
(810) 229-9334
(810) 229-8125 (fax)
www.promessinc.com (web site)
promess@promessinc.com (e-mail)
