Update:
It's been a year since I started this thread, It's interesting how Trumpf are being bashed for their service, It's the one area they have been bashing the vendor of the laser I bought, with which I have never had an issue with parts or service. I bought a Finn-Power L6, very nice...
I have been given a project of improving the machine up-time in a sheet metal fabrication plant to 90%, don't all laugh at once! We have some new machines and some old machines, mainly Amada punch presses and press brakes.
What sort of figures has anyone else come up with for this or a similar...
Be sure it's the balls, We have 5 Amada Punches, one punch/laser combo, The turret is the biggest culprit.
Take a new sheet of metal, roll it in then across the surface, look atthe scratch pattern, this should indicate where exavtly the scratches are happening.
I have worked for 2 major pneumatics companies - see if your air line supply has a lubricator. There are two main types, Oil Mist and Oil Fog. Fog travels further down the lines. Check the distance from the lubricator to the valves against the manufacturer's specs, make sure you consider bends...
Can you draw a new model and subtract the bolt to give the female threads in the nut?
OR
Just draw a basic nut and call out the correct info on the drawing? I'm sure the model of the thread doesn't matter, as long as the BOM calls out the right part. (unless you are using finite modelling to...
People may be biased because they have a brand or know someone who likes a make or model of 2D laser. Has anyone been to the plants of the big players? Mitsubishi, Amada, Cincinati, Trumpf? maybe all of them? What impressions did you get? We are an all Amada punch shop, only now venturing into...
