Marposs, Bruderer Machinery partner on automated ram height adjustment

Marposs and Bruderer Machinery North America have established a partnership that enables Bruderer presses to be sold with an integrated Marposs Brankamp process monitoring system featuring automated ram height adjustment. Developed cooperatively, the system automatically compensates for variation in sheet thickness, material hardness, tool and machine temperature, and speed during the manufacturing process.

The process monitoring system for sheet metal processing (stamping, drawing, coining, piercing, blanking, and bending) protects the machine and tool from overloads; detects process disturbances such as feed failures, rising slugs, and punch and die breakage; and provides 100% monitoring of each stroke. This helps to immediately identify manufacturing faults and part and tool variations.