for automated measuring and set-up of roll-tooling
The quest to reduce product change-over times is as old as rollforming itself. Over many years DREISTERN has spearheaded the development of tooling set-up time reduction.
With state of the art quick-change equipment, tooling change-over times currently range around ½ hour. Tooling change-over, however, is only one part of the equation. What really matters is the time spent from the last good part, until the first good part of a new product run has been produced.
Taking this into consideration productivity levels drop significantly! Reproduction of previously good settings remains problematic, even though the tooling used has been producing good parts before.
Reason enough for Dreistern to develop an automatic tooling measuring and tuning system. All measuring and fine tuning work will be performed off-line; your rollforming machine remains available for production. Productivity increases up to 20% will be possible; the running of small and less lucrative product orders becomes economically rewarding.