Automation of a production line for flashless precision forging

摘要

Automation is an important approach to achieving more economical production systems. But most automated production systems. But most automated production lines are inflexible. Flexibility is an essential topic for manufacturing lines which have high machine costs and whose various products are made on variably combined aggregates such as forging lines for example. For the innovative technology of flashless precision forging an automated production line has been developed at the IPH-Institut fur Integrierte Produktion Hannover to demonstrate a new concept of flexible automation in forging. With the flashless forging process gearwheels are produced in one forming step with such precision that only final grinding after forging is necessary.