| | | Helping stampers improve uncoiling, straightening and feeding to make better parts. As manufacturers demand higher quality components from their suppliers, handling of raw material feed stock becomes critical. In the stamping process, that means feeding the coil into the press has to be accomplished with greater emphasis on: ■ Speed ■ Flexibility of coil sizes ■ Faster change over ■ Minimal impact to the material Rockwell Automation has developed a pre-engineered automated press feed control system to help increase productivity and reduce the high costs of scrap in the stamping room. Rockwell Automation's FeederPro is available in a range of configurations, from a pre-engineered bundle of hardware for small press feeds to turnkey systems for the largest flat metal line processing systems. | | Reliability Is Designed into the Solution The Rockwell Automation FeederPro system provides a reliable solution for press industrial feeders based upon standard, off-the-shelf Allen-Bradley components. The system provides a press feed controller that uses familiar configuration and troubleshooting tools on the Logix™ family of controllers. Built-in set-up routines and diagnostics make the FeederPro easy for your press room operators and maintenance personnel to run and troubleshoot the system by themselves, maximizing their productivity and reducing the downtime of the feeder system. The FeederPro application software provides the commands to the drives. This enables the system to closely follow the motions of the press for tight control of the manufacturing process. Results—A Smooth Operator The FeederPro system uses the Rockwell Automation SmoothProfile™ press feed profile to smoothly accelerate and decelerate the feed rolls. This approach dramatically reduces roll slippage and virtually eliminates material marking. The FeederPro system is available as a pre-engineered bundle of engineering and components or as a completely assembled and tested control system. The open network architecture of the FeederPro System allows for simple connectivity to a StamPro press control, for even better control of your stamping process. | | |