The present invention teaches a process of measuring and grinding tools in can/cylindrical body production, allowing reduced production downtime, reduced cost and a predictive tool wear capability, which process allows more accurate stocking of tool inventory by means of tracking individual tools in use and providing advanced diagnostics to the tool room. This includes not just out-of-spec alarms from QA but also predictive alarms regarding cans produced by each tool, in-spec can weights and wall thicknesses, information on tool sizes being used in production, tools in inventory, pulled from inventory and other stock balancing information. The invention further teaches a system of equations for prioritizing grinding to maintain optimum tool inventory levels.

The present invention provides a compact intelligent loading and unloading device of a numerical control turret punch press, comprising mounting frames, a palletizing platform, a mobile station, a feeding device, a lifting and reclaiming device and a central control module. The device can reduce the difficulty of a feeding device for clamping the sheet material through a clamp by lifting the sheet material with a certain angle at the front end of a mobile station. The device can also enhance the uniformity of the sheet material on a palletizing platform by arranging a limiting device on the palletizing platform, thereby reducing the probability of slippage of the sheet material on the palletizing platform.

A display device for punching and/or pressing machines. The display device can be constructed to be modular and of compact size so as to be positioned as desired on new and existing machine designs. The display device is formed with displays, which are configurable to provide a plurality of qualitative and quantitative information. The display device can be configured to be function with consoles of punching and pressing machines so as to be one or more of a supplemental device, an interfacing device, and an interactive device.

A numerical controller controlling punching performs punching according to a machining program, detects a phenomenon that the punching is not normally completed, collects and stores information required for re-execution of a block in which the phenomenon is generated, and restores a machining state at the time of occurrence of the phenomenon and further re-executes the punching by using the information.

A numerical controller generates movement command data, and performs an interpolation process based on the generated movement command data to generate and output interpolation data. Further, in the case of a state in which a press operation in punch press machining is started from a different position from a position of a preset rising edge, an overlap time is calculated based on a position of a punch head when the press operation is started, and an output timing of interpolation data related to an axis controlling the press operation is controlled based on the calculated overlap time. In this way, even when there is a change in press stroke, a dead time may be prevented from being generated.

The invention solves the problem of the construction of a lance of a cleaning kit for medium-voltage power devices. The lance is equipped with an external assembly (A) and an internal assembly (B) placed therein, wherein the external assembly (A) constitutes a head (1) with clamps (2) and (3) of connections, mounted in it from the front, and connected to a body (4). The body (4) is detachably connected to an extension (5), which at the opposite end is detachably connected to a dispensing nozzle (6).

Tooling and corresponding tool assembly configurations equipped with exemplary designs of tracking assemblies configured to track information, such as use history, and perform a variety of processing and storage functions relative to the same for more efficient use and maintenance of the tooling over their lifetimes. The tracking assemblies can have retrofit-ready constructions.

A method for the characterization of a sheet metal forming product uses the correlation of material flow data to a priori calculated or measured data. It determines whether the product falls within the acceptable production limits in terms of quality, areas of potential defects and an approximation of the process parameters prevailing during its production. The characterization is performed in real-time during production, tool deployment or try-out. The method includes the steps of: providing physical dimensions of an actual sheet metal part; a feature extractor computing, from these physical dimensions, a measured material flow metric representative of the geometry of the part after the forming operation; and a matching unit determining, from reference data and the measured material flow metric, a matching forming operation data set whose associated simulated material flow metric most closely matches the measured material flow metric.

A binary punch marker identifies pipes and welds at joints of pipes, and a system and method fabricate such a binary punch marker. The binary punch marker has information encoded by recesses in the marker for identifying the pipes and welds. The information is encrypted to prevent forgery of metallic assets such as pipes, pipelines, storage tanks, etc. during inspection of the metallic assets.

The invention notably relates to a method for determining specifications of the input of a manufacturing operation that outputs a part having cut-outs. The method comprises providing specifications of the output part, including a user-designed B-Rep having cycles of edges and modeling the part, the cut-outs being represented by the user with tunnels in the B-Rep, determining the set that consists of all cycles being the one having the smallest length in a respective equivalence class, performing a process on the set that includes iterating replacing a cycle when this reduces the length, and deleting a cycle when a sum results in a boundary cycle, otherwise replacing the cycle by the sum when this reduces the length. The invention offers an improved solution to detect, in a B-Rep having cycles of edges and modeling a part having cut-outs represented by tunnels, location of at least part of the tunnels.