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says Arthur Tang, ETA vice president. “Engineers now can go beyond identify- ing problem areas by incorporating design optimization to improve performance and quality—removing wrinkles and cracks.”
The OP module will use the same com- mon interface as the other four Dynaform modules—Blank Size Engineering, Die Face Engineering, Formability Simula- tion and Die System Analysis. Each of the four modules also has been enhanced in Version 5.9.
ETA: www.eta.com
Destacker Tooling
Developed for
Feeding Aluminum
and Steel Blanks
Bilsing Automation, Clinton Township, MI, has developed a flexible destacking
setup for separating and feeding steel and aluminum blanks of various sizes and config- urations, regardless of lubrication on the blanks.
To design the system, engineers com-
piled field data for strategic place-
ment of peel
cylinders
used typically with
aluminum-blank destackers to lift
the corners of the blank with air knives and break the vacuum that can cause blanks to adhere to one another.
During operation, the destacker’s automation equipment lowers toward the blank stack so that the peeler suc- tion cups are level, with the spring- loaded front cups programmed to fire just prior to the remaining cups. This allows the air knives to peel back the top sheet for reliable blank separation.
Bilsing also has released a newly updated 12-page capabilities brochure featuring its new advanced traction yel- low vacuum cups. Also included is a new section on the firm’s Bond+Bolt fasten- ing technology used in its line of carbon- fiber tooling.
Bilsing Automation: www.bilsing-automation.com
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