HYDAC: #1 Industrial Hydraulics in Australia

Traditionally, a mechanical and a hydraulic press each have offered specific benefits, with mechanicals providing higher stroke speed, simpler set up and maintenance, and high repeatability. Hydraulic presses deliver full energy throughout the press stroke along with freely programmable slide motion and energy control. Introducing servo motors into the hydraulic-press equation retains the stated advantages with plenty more added. As servo-mechanical presses have shown, the addition of industrie 4.0 sensors drives and controls enable programmability for stroke movement and force. Precisely, dialled-in settings can customize a press for each particular job, tool and material, and allow for new ways to form new materials. Developments in stamping-press technology have continued unabated. Newer materials, and newer methods to form these materials, boosted by the need for parts designed with safety and weight in mind, have driven the press-innovation trend. The technology’s relative new...