How to Load Steel Into a Schuler Hydraulic Press

Schuler offers systems, tools and dies, process expertise and services for the entire metalworking industry. Our automation solutions enhance production reliability and quality - from blank through finished part production.

Schuler's Servo Press Line is engineered for maximum performance and reliability, providing maximum flexibility across a broad spectrum of applications such as conventional stamping, die tryout, press hardening and precision blanking.

Loading the Workpiece

Electrical power is used to operate a pump which pressurizes hydraulic fluid, then stores it in either a reservoir or an accumulator until a control valve opens to release it through piping to where it will be used in a machine - in this instance allowing ram movement downward while pressing its lower die against the workpiece.

Once the ram reaches bottom dead center, pressure in the accumulator decreases and the pump shuts off - this process allows for precise application of force onto workpiece.

Load cells are frequently employed with hydraulic presses to measure the force being applied to workpieces. This enables operators to assess whether it falls within specification; load cells are usually connected with readouts that display this current force being applied; more advanced control systems exist that provide accurate speed regulation of ram and forging loads.

Loading the Die

Schuler servo presses and automated lines can be configured to meet different production needs depending on workpiece types, output capacity requirements and space restrictions. Our equipment offers customized solutions tailored specifically for you - be it loading blanks in multiple press stations or moving them between coil feed lines and forming presses - no matter your application requirements.

Twin servo technology for bottom-driven presses This drive concept replaces the eccentric geared drives found on mechanical bottom-driven presses and offers many advantages such as reduced energy consumption, better force distribution, greater rigidity and higher quality parts production. This is made possible through various features:

Loading the Ram

Hydraulic presses are forming machines featuring linear relative movements of at least one ram carrying the first main part of a tool. Subclassifications of hydraulic presses depend on their drive system; path-driven or force-driven machines. Furthermore, their ram forces may be divided into energy and stiffness categories.

Rod end load cells are an effective means for measuring the force exerted by hydraulic pistons or rams in presses, providing data to monitor force applied during forming processes as well as quality control purposes.

Hydraulic presses offer great versatility for efficient series production of components in small lots and series production of large components. Schuler offers automation solutions for hydraulic, mechanical and servo press lines - from coil feed line through blank production and die forming to achieve maximum process reliability. Furthermore, Schuler provides comprehensive forming and automation systems that cover traditional metalforming, die tryout/testing press hardening hydroforming and precision blanking processes.

Loading the Table

Manufacturing cells designed for tube hydroforming should include mechanization and automation features to facilitate its process. These units include those to bend tubes before hydroforming begins as well as post-forming ones like end cutting and part cleaning.

Design of the hydraulic press should enable an easily accessible and safe method of loading workpieces onto its table, reducing cycle times while guaranteeing it can handle necessary forces.

Presses should be equipped with load cells to measure how much force is being applied to their workpieces. Load cells serve as transducers that convert mechanical force to an electrical signal and this information allows users to control force applied. They play an essential part in making sure presses operate safely and precisely.