15 ton servo mechanical press

DTUs Department of Mechanics wished to transform their course “industrial processes”. As a part of this they needed three 15 ton presses, which they could control position and force on. Presses are widely used in industrial manufacturing, and there already exist many commercial available products. However they are often for high production rates, e.g. continues running in fixed cycles or hydraulic driven, with the hereby need for hydraulics and maintenance.

It was also a requirement that the press should be able to do tension, be compact, safe and CE-marked.

IPU designed a servo mechanical press with two precision spindles driven by servo motors running synchronous. In this way both position, speed and force can be controlled from the integrated touch monitor and PLC, while the data is logged to a file for later analysis by the students.

By using servo motors the press can both run relative fast, while it is able to achieve precise positions and speeds, with fast stops both in tension and compression.

The machine was by build using of the shelf components, like spindles, linear guides, motors and gears and a small number of custom parts. Further the design is scalable, so that both smaller and larger presses can be constructed from the same design, just be changing the size and numbers of the components and adapt the base and top plate. In this way the design can be scaled down to a few tonnes up to 100 ton.

Contact IPU if you want to hear how we can design specialized equipment for your business.