Servo Finds at FABTECH - Energy-Saving Servohydraulic Presses

摘要

AP&T officials were available at FABTECH to discuss the company's efforts in developing servo-hydraulic press technology, including the company's own hydraulic test press. The rise in automotive applications for high-strength aluminum contributed to development of servohydraulic presses by AP&T, says Patrik Haglund, the company's product manager for presses. Forming high-strength aluminum requires relatively high press speeds and high accuracy, notes Haglund, but running hydraulic presses at higher speeds is challenging, and costly from an energy standpoint. Merging the benefits of servomechanical presses with the flexibility of hydraulic presses present a solution to that challenge.