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Servo Payoff
Servo Payoff
at Bayloff
at Bayloff
The addition of a servo-driven press at Bayloff Stamped Products allows the Michigan metalformer to increase capacity while gaining expertise on just what servo technology can deliver.
To ease capacity concerns and push the company’s understanding of new tech- nology, in 2014 Bayloff Stamped Products installed a 600-ton servo-driven press and transfer system. The line has proven valuable in producing complex stainless- steel deep-drawn automotive parts.
servo so that we could travel the learn- ing curve,” Bayer recalls. “Everyone has talked about servo-driven presses for 15 years, and we thought we should take the extra step and bring one in.”
His son Chris, Bayloff’s co-owner, echoes those thoughts.
“We wanted a better understand- ing of the technology so that we could apply it to different quoting models and process parts in a different fashion, not just using the conventional way of thinking,” he explains. “In addition, we perform a lot of deep draws in different shapes, producing muffler shells and other deep-drawn components out of stainless steel, and the ability to control drawing speeds was intriguing to us.”
Common Control Platform Eases Line Setup, Production
In December of 2014, Bayloff went
Ashort hop southwest from Detroit in Bellville, MI, Bayloff Stamped Products earns its keep supplying automotive customers. Via a mix of high-strength and stainless steel as well as aluminum, the company pro- vides a range of stamped and welded products ranging from engine, sus- pension and transmission mounts to powertrain and exhaust-system com- ponents as well as front-end-module assemblies. The Tier Two metalformer employs 16 progressive and transfer presses, from 200 to 1000 tons, to churn out parts and components in two shifts at its 73,000-sq.-ft., 100-employee- strong main facility. Bayloff also main- tains a 40,000-sq.-ft. 75-employee weld- ing and assembly facility just down the
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road as well as a 120,000-sq.-ft. deep- draw transfer operation with 75 employees in Kinsman, OH. In 2001, Bayloff formed another company, WBI, in Westland, MI, that performs CNC tube bending and fabricating.
Needed to Ride Servo- Technology Learning Curve
Faced with capacity issues, in 2014 the company began looking to add a press. As the search went on, and as Bayloff consulted with Nidec Minster— “we’ve always been primarily a Minster shop,” says Rich Bayer, Bayloff ’s owner —a servo-driven machine seemed like the right route to take.
“We started thinking that if we are going to get a press, we should get a
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