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Video showcasing automotive rollforming

IMN — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:12:49 +0000

Automotive parts manufacturing is a complex process with high demands on equipment manufacturers. Tight tolerances, high volume production rates and squeezed margins makes this a tough market to be in.

Samco Machinery Video – Automotive Rollforming

In this video rollforming machine manufacturer "Samco Machinery" demonstrates how they have designed and engineered a complete system for forming car bumpers. The Tata Nano, "The Peoples Car' utilizes several forming machines in order to manufacture the under carriage chassis and bumper. Integration of the bending and forming steps has given Tata an advantage over other automotive Tier 1 parts suppliers.

Other roll forming machine manufactures such as Roll-Kraft have developed their own innovative solutions for this sector. The Auto Pro 315 leverages their steel forming technologies to enable them to meet this demanding market.

For more information on automotive rollforming machines contacts us today!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-UzybaiYss

Best Practices for Forming Automotive Assemblies

IMN — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:26:30 +0000

Roll Forming for Automotive parts

Roll forming is a high speed metal forming process that can be used to manufacture a variety of automotive body components. The basic material, usually a flat strip in coil form or occasionally in pre-cut strip configuration, is formed and at the same time while being longitudinally moved by pairs of rotating tools, until the finished shape exits at the end of the machine.

Most of the roll forming lines process 0.006 to 0.390 inch thick material at a speed of 20 to 70 m/minute. The rolling mills running only 50 percent of time at approximately 60 m/minute forming speed can produce almost 15000 m of metal strips in 8 hours.

The products are usually roll formed at room temperature which is why roll forming is also called a cold rolling process. The technique can produce straight and longitudinal bend lines without changing the thickness or cross sectional profile of the material.

Due to its high productivity, roll forming can combine many other operations used in metal working industry into the roll forming lines. This process makes it feasible to produce several finished and semi-finished metal components from strip within seconds, without material handling and storage between operations. As the roll forming machines can be made flexible and programmable to produce cold-rolled sheets and complex metal parts with practically no scrap, the roll forming technique fits very well into the concepts of Just in Time Production, Flexible Manufacturing System and Net Shape Process.

For the automotive industry, this metal forming process can manufacture a large variety of products. Typical roll formed automotive components include frame and panel members, seat adjusting parts, crash barriers, trims, window components, bumpers, channels, van components, sun visor supports, radiator parts, and tubular components.

Structural Parts In Automotive Manufacturing: How roll forming systems solve technical problems

IMN — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:58:02 +0000

Today’s automotive manufacturing systems require parts manufactures to provide quality parts and systems to maintain tier 1 qualification. In order to do this many parts manufactures to the automotive industry rely on roll forming equipment to produce precise parts at high volume and low cost.

Roll forming equipment can be used to manufacture structural components to the automotive, trucking and transportation industry. These complex machines form steel coil in to profiles of almost any shape and complexity. Typically rollforming equipment is used to manufacture bumpers, chassis components, door window runners, cross supports and critical crash sub-assembly systems. Newer technology in the roll forming industry provides for un-interrupted manufacturing of these components used in today’s modern automotive manufacturing environments.

The highest quality roll-forming machines utilize flying technology for cutting the profiles ‘on-the-fly’. This allows parts manufactures to produce virtually uninterrupted assemblies with high-quality repeatable designs. Companies such as, Samco Machinery, are in the forefront of this technology. There systems are seen as revolutionary is many industries and are proven to provide the highest reliability.

Incorporating ‘rafted’ or ‘cassettes’ on a roll forming machines parts manufacturers can reduce roll tooling change over times dramatically. By ‘rafting’ the roll tooling and stands specific to each profile design change over time can be reduced to a point where running shorter runs of multiple profiles designs still produces highly profitable per part costs. The key is to understand how these portable, transferable, components within a rollforming machine interact. Poorly designed systems will end up costing more then the cost difference of a high quality machine. This is due to the precise nature of aligning roll tooling in an automotive roll former. With correct alignment the system can produce with minimal to no ‘re-adjustment’.

If you are a parts manufacturer to the automotive industry and you are currently brake pressing or stamping parts investigate the advantages to producing these parts with a rollformer system.

Walcowanie Maszyny – zwiększenie wydajności produkcji oraz zmniejszenie pracy

IMN — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:02:39 +0000

Blacha pracowników w zakładach produkcyjnych zrobić elementy z blachy produktów takich jak stadniny i oprawy utwór, płatew, dachowe faliste i bocznicy i powietrze-kanałowe systemy klimatyzacji, trapezowych dachów, części samochodowe i wiele innych wyrobów stalowych. Pracy może być bardzo powtarzalne i intensywnej pracy. Pracowników blachy pozostawić na długie okresy, podnoszenia ciężkich materiałów i produktów gotowych. Ostatnią rzeczą, jakiej potrzebują ręcznie hamulec prasy, wymagające wysiłku powtarzalnych z każdej operacji gięcia.

Jak produkcji lepsze? Korzystanie w pełni zautomatyzowane maszyny stanowiące roll będzie podniesienie jakości, poprzez-put i zysku. Są one bardziej elastyczne, mają większą pojemność i są szybsze niż inne techniki obróbki plastycznej. Oni także zmniejszyć ogólną liczbę podmiotów i zajęć. Koszty pracy są znacznie obniżyć i pracowników poprzez-put. Roll Machine stanowiących redukuje koszty pracy przy jednoczesnym zwiększeniu produktywności. Wykorzystania spławiał narzędzi pozwala na szybszą zmianę na to, jak znaleźć Samco młynów maszyn i wyższej jakości. Pozwala to firmie na wytwarzanie większej ilości produktów w krótszym czasie.

Więc co muszę szukać w moim następnym rzucie były maszyny?

Wysoka jakość produktu wyjściowego.
Wytrzymała konstrukcja długo, bezawaryjnej eksploatacji w ciężkich służby celnej.
Zdolności do ciągłej lub przed powtarzalność kuponach bez kompromisów w pełnej długości lub pracy ciągłej w paszy dokładnie i ekonomicznie.
Hydrauliczne kontroli wskaźnika szybko i dokładnie.
Matryce, które są łatwe i szybkie zmiany.
Zdolność do wykonywania wielu operacji.
Udokumentowane usługi z wieloletnim doświadczeniem.
Części zamienne i opcjonalnych elementów, które są łatwo dostępne.
Badając nowej rolki były maszyny, upewnij się, że mecz sprzęt do własnych potrzeb oraz uzyskania najwyższej jakości produktów z odpowiednie właściwości. Patrząc tylko koszt może być czasem myląca, jak uniwersalność, wydajności, efektywności pracy i kosztów cyklu życia wszystkie muszą być rozliczane.

Przez ponad 30 lat, Samco maszyna została zwiększenia wydajności formowania branży stalowej. Odwiedź naszą stronę internetową walcowanie Machine szczegóły na naszej kompletną linię maszyn formowania.

The Automotive Industry Affects Many: Roll Forming Solves Parts Problems

IMN — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:52:49 +0000

The twentieth century produced millions of great inventions. Computers and the Internet are definitely at the top of the list, but so are cars. The whole car industry provides millions and millions of jobs. Not just the assembly plants. When people think about the car industry, that is usually the first thing that comes to mind, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. There is so many other jobs involved and affected by the automotive industry. Not to mention the jobs affected by people in the automotive field, such as the local fast food outlet.

In order to build a car you first need to build the components. But before you can manufacture the components, you need to build the automotive roll forming dies that will form the parts. But, even before that, the car and all of the individual parts have to engineered.

This chain starts with the heads of the car companies. They decide to build a car. They get a general concept of what they want and pass this information on to their engineers. The engineers design the overall look of the car, then dissect it into smaller parts. Each part then has to be designed and blueprints drawn up. After the blueprints are approved, the heads decide how many of this particular model they want to build.

This information is then sent out to the suppliers, the metal stamping companies, for one. The metal stamping companies bid on the job, based on the number of parts required. The metal stamping company has to buy the die needed to stamp the parts, so the bid has to include this cost. Most models run for 5 years, so this cost can be amortized over this 5 year period, helping the company decide how much they have to charge per part. The roll forming company does not make any money on the parts during the first year. They will not realize any profit until the cost of the die is recovered.

How Roll Formers are helping the automotive industry battle steel prices.

IMN — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:33:23 +0000

With the increase of hot rolled steel many businesses that have a high content of steel in their product are looking for new ways to reduce costs.

Roll forming equipment can have a significant impact on the cost of raw materials used in the manufacturing of automotive parts. Roll forming machines bend and form flat coils of steel in to many products found in today’s cars and trucks. When Tier 1 suppliers utilize rollforming equipment to bend metal in to bumpers, door slides, chassis frames, car seats and other sub-assembly parts they know how important quality parts is.

How do roll formers increase part quality in the automotive industry?

The leading manufacturers of roll forming systems (such as Samco Machinery) utilize sophisticated software known as Finite Element Analysis (or FEA) software. This specialized software allows the rollformer manufacturer to ‘test drive’ the mill before building it. This advanced technique has allowed for the tooling design to reach new levels. Automotive parts manufacturers can now benefit from advanced tooling in producing faster, higher quality repeatable parts. The integration of cold roll forming equipment in the manufacturing process in turn reduces rejected parts and increase overall throughput.

New quality control measures for the automotive rollformer industry

Quality rollforming companies today utilize project management processes found in today’s automotive industry. Each milestone enables both the customer and the roll forming manufacture to address any changes and keep on track.

3 Ways roll formers reduce costs in the Automotive Industry.

Reduce the number of defective parts produced
Increase volumes reducing per part costs
Deliver repeatable part tolerances

These key features allow for the production of Tier 1 automotive parts in a highly competitive marketplace.

BNN talks about Tata nano the ‘peoples car’ and how Samco helps make it happen

IMN — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:02:40 +0000

I was watching Business News Network (BNN) and saw an interview on Squeeze Play that caught my interest. In the interview president and COO, of Samco Machinery Bob Repovs' talked about his company. He discussed how business can learn to thrive during a down economy. Specifically, how they helped Tata nano build cars in India. Theirroll forming machine is used to help build parts for the automaker.

It is surprising how a company in Canada can help manufactures around the world build products for the automotive, building and construction, roofing and appliance industries. I didn't know that roll formers were more cost effective then other forms of metal forming such as brake presses and stamping machines. I understand that you can bend all kinds of metal thick or thin in to many complex shapes. The critical roll tooling is the most important part of the machine. It allows the sheet metal to be bent in to precise shapes as it moves through the tooling.

When I researched Samco Machinery as a leader in theroll forming industry I came across many interesting pages on their website. They have detailed information about purlin roll forming machines, corrugated roll formers, stud and track roll former and many other machines used in bending metal. I would suggest anyone interested in learning how roll formers work to go to the best roll forming company I found online.