Roll Forming
Don’t Play with Fire: Preventative Maintenance on Roll Formers Saves Money and Time
If you run your roll former 24/7 without maintenance, you’re playing with fire. Every maintenance program is a little bit different, but this general outline is useful for any metal roll forming machine. It includes some points of emphasis to consider, and some things that may get overlooked.
If you run your roll former 24/7 without maintenance, you’re playing with fire. Every maintenance program is a little bit different, but this general outline is useful for any metal roll forming machine. It includes some points of emphasis to consider, and some things that may get overlooked.
Purchasing a custom roll former is one of your company’s larger investments. The design of your equipment will only be as good as the information you provide to your machinery manufacturer. The more information supplied, the better the result will be, so here are many of the considerations that must be examined up front during the machine design process.
Roll forming high-strength steel was once a major hurdle. But now, finite element analysis shows us what happens to steel moving from one pass to another, detecting problems that lead to design changes so that we can deal with most of the roll forming process weaknesses before building the tooling.
Sometimes it’s equally as important to know what not to do as it is to know what to do. When it comes to investing in roll forming equipment and accessories, quality roll tooling designers must consider the possibilities for each customer.
From product design and prototyping to metal fabrication and assembly, companies need an expert, all-in-one supply chain partner to help them take their business strategy to the next level.
Roll forming procedures, pre- and post-processing steps can be optimally calculated to improve the forming process as a whole using COPRA FEA RF software from data M, which visualizes and verifies the production process within a virtual environment to prevent deviations during production.
The 3D Rollforming Center from data M Sheet Metal Solutions uses an integrated hexapod robot to produce high strength steel or aluminum alloy profile sections that vary in height and width, a COPRA ProfileScan Desktop measurement device for quality control of profiles, and COPRA FEA RF design and simulation software to validate the roll forming process.
Take a closer look at some of the metal forming and fabrication technologies that will be exhibited November 16-18 on the show floor in Las Vegas.
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