Press SET UP REDUCTION
Press SET UP REDUCTION
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Hi has anyone got any reference material on Set Up reduction for a press.
~I am fine with concepts of set up reduction but wondered is any one has any electronic copies of reference material relating to presses, any other areas would be intresting.
~I am fine with concepts of set up reduction but wondered is any one has any electronic copies of reference material relating to presses, any other areas would be intresting.





RE: Press SET UP REDUCTION
For some press styles, companies like System 3R sell removeable diesets that can be set outside the press significantly decreasing downtime. I believe Dorst, Gasbarre, and a few others sell removeable die sets for their presses. Or you can design your own with a few more bells and whistles.
RE: Press SET UP REDUCTION
RE: Press SET UP REDUCTION
Check out Society of Manufacturing Engineers. They have a lot of multimedia material, much of it specific to your topic.
Griffy
RE: Press SET UP REDUCTION
We dowel the top plate to the bolster, and use sprung loaded location spiggots from the top plate to the press ram. This means that the die is located within seconds and is always guaranteed to be square and central to the ram.
Lack of ancilary equipment / tools is usualy a major time consumer, where time is spent searching for kit. A well organised, well stocked area for tools, clamps, etc, will pay dividends.
Bladey.
RE: Press SET UP REDUCTION
RE: Press SET UP REDUCTION
An idea we've tossed around:
- Draw a circle around your press (# of feet depends on size of press). Monitor how often your setter leaves that circle. Each time he leaves you're experiencing downtime.
- Analyze why the person leaves. It could be calls for adjustment, to get tooling that wasn't staged properly, etc. You can start breaking down the process from here.
- Gear your solutions to keep the setter within that circle as much as possible. You may have to stage tools differently, buy more inspection equipment, etc.
After this you'll end up falling into questions about maintaining setup records, frequency of adjustments. Don't be surprised if the setup reduction project opens a whole slew of other projects to work on. But with a little focus on efficiency, you should see a big gain. Our last mini-reduction event pulled about 40% of the time from the setup using some of the techniques above in additional to exchangeable diesets.