EP1245302A1 - Machine de profilage avec plusieurs stations de formage arrangées en ligne - Google Patents

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EP1245302A1
EP1245302A1 EP01107591A EP01107591A EP1245302A1 EP 1245302 A1 EP1245302 A1 EP 1245302A1 EP 01107591 A EP01107591 A EP 01107591A EP 01107591 A EP01107591 A EP 01107591A EP 1245302 A1 EP1245302 A1 EP 1245302A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D5/00—Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves
    • B21D5/06—Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves by drawing procedure making use of dies or forming-rollers, e.g. making profiles
    • B21D5/08—Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves by drawing procedure making use of dies or forming-rollers, e.g. making profiles making use of forming-rollers

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  • the invention relates to a profiling machine with several in line one behind the other arranged forming stations for multi-stage forming a to be profiled Workpiece, whereby the forming stations with their position adjustable and interacting in pairs Roll forming tools are provided, between which the workpiece is passed while being reshaped.
  • a profiling machine is disclosed in DE 27 32 233 B1.
  • Profiling machines of the type mentioned are mostly together with a infeed table upstream of the forming stations, one or more Straighteners and if necessary a cut-to-length machine set up to a Form production line for the production of finished profiles from strip material.
  • Tool holders in the sense of this application are in particular scaffolds that at least two horizontal axes for guiding roll forming tools have, or side roller tables on which at least two on parallel vertical axes running rollers are stored.
  • a roll forming machine is a mass production machine. she can produce a very large amount of profiles of the same shape in a very short time. Due to its design, flexibility is alien to it; converting the profiling machine to a different profile shape or a different material of the workpiece to be profiled in any case requires a longer running-in or testing phase with the corresponding Reject material until the profile shape produced meets the specifications equivalent. This also applies if a profile has already been made and will be produced again later.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object of a profiling machine at the outset mentioned type also for less experienced operators make and simplify a conversion of the roll forming machine.
  • This task is by a profiling machine with the features of the attached Claim 1 solved.
  • a profiling machine of the type mentioned is thus with the invention Provide detection means, the position data of all adjustable roll forming tools capture, as well as with a central data processing device, the collects and processes the position data reported by the detection means.
  • further processing can consist of all Position data of the roll forming tools that have been optimized for production stored as a specially marked data record for later use becomes.
  • the processing of the position data can alternatively or additionally go in a completely different direction and, as described below, for example with software based on the principle of neural networks and / or Fuzzy logic tools work, to a kind of self-learning system and thus to a virtual assistant during the testing phase of the profiling machine to lead.
  • the output of the stored and retrieved data records or the collected ones and further processed position data can be stored on an information carrier, for example, a screen, which causes the operator of the profiling machine the various roll forming tools for instructions and suggestions set;
  • an information carrier for example, a screen
  • all adjustable Roll forming tools or their tool holders with the data processing device controlled motorized adjusting elements are provided.
  • the conversion of the entire profiling machine to one earlier, for example produced profile shape can then be done "at the push of a button”.
  • Intermediate values when setting up and adjusting the profiling machine store it as a data record and, if there is a Changing the positions of different roll forming tools is not ideal, these changes can easily be brought back to the intermediate value. This speeds up the purely empirical process of adjustment is naturally considerable.
  • the acquisition means for acquiring the position data of all adjustable roll forming tools can be realized for example with laser technology, the exact position of the roll forming tools is optically detected in each case; very easy is the acquisition of the position data but when the tool holders with adjustment elements for adjusting the positions of the roll forming tools are provided, their setting values as position data of the respective roll forming tools serve. It is particularly advantageous if these adjustment elements as Servomotors are formed, which electronically transfer their respective position to the central Report data processing device and be controlled from there can.
  • the central data processing of the profiling machine according to the invention can be based on various types can be programmed. For the purpose of adjusting a roll forming machine It is also possible to enable inexperienced operators, for example advantageous if all position data at least during a test phase the profiling machine and the resulting Position data history prepared for further processing or evaluation, be represented in particular. Based on such temporal position data courses a trial phase can then be traced at any time later. This can, for example, make it easier for an inexperienced operator to optimize one Setting due to changes in the material properties of the workpiece to change or find an optimal setting of the machine again. Of the presentation of position data profiles also creates the prerequisite for a self-learning system based on several run-in processes and trial phases a profiling machine according to the invention "learns" how to adjust a profiling machine.
  • the profiling machine offers particular advantages when at least one detector for detecting the final profile shape is available, which with the central data processing device for carrying out a comparison of the Actual shape data and the target shape data is related. This makes it possible the system not only to record the position data and the position data history, but based on the shape data provided by the detector with the to put the resulting profile shape in relation and a connection between the change of one or more profile data and the change of the To produce shape data.
  • measurement sensors can be provided which have the shape of the profile to be profiled Workpiece after each forming station with adjustable roll forming tools capture and forward to the central data processing device. This enables a more precise breakdown of the relationships between the Adjustment of individual forming stations and the associated changes the shape data detected by the sensors.
  • the sensors can be devices for recording a light section, which make it possible to determine a profile cross section of the workpiece.
  • the central data processing device is expediently programmed in such a way that that they have all the position data of the adjustable roll forming tools the shape data obtained from the detector and / or the measurement sensors Workpiece and also the corresponding default values from the theoretically calculated profile flower considered. So much for the profiling machine with adjustment elements controllable by the central data processing device equipped, a self-regulating system can be generated, for example a profile cross-section is determined after each forming station and iteratively compared with the default values, with the positions for each iteration step the roll forming tools of the corresponding forming station are changed.
  • the profiling machine according to the invention is then integrated with a process Quality monitoring equipped, which detects irregularities in real time and corrected. This ensures production reliability, particularly in series production greatly increased.
  • An advantageous programming of the central data processing device of the Profiling machine according to the invention can, for example, the following method enable: starting from the ones obtained during the construction of the roll forming tools The theoretical values become the setting values in the test phase and thus the position data of the individual roll forming tools manually adapted and corrected, the data processing device the theoretical Already has default values and from there also logs position data history. At the same time, it logs the shape data of the workpiece with which it receives from the detector and / or from the sensors. From the The software then determines the position data courses and the shape data courses a functional relationship between the position data and the shape data and stores this functional relationship as a process behavior pattern from.
  • the Forward secondary parameters to the central data processing device which can also influence the production result.
  • the feed rate and the temperature of the Workpiece the type and temperature of the lubricant used, the ambient temperature, the thickness and width of the workpiece, the straightness and waviness of the workpiece as well as its material properties, from coil to coil completely can be different.
  • Some of these secondary parameters are significant Influence on the production result, especially through unwanted shape deviations of the profile, so the software of the data processing device can "learn" over time, on changed secondary parameters by appropriate Correct the positions of certain selected roll forming tools.
  • the system is further improved, if not only at the forming stations further processing stations, such as in particular at additional side roller tables, at the infeed table and at any intermediate and Straighteners are available with which the shape of the workpiece to be profiled and sent to the central as a form data set Data processing device is forwarded. Because even those with such additional The shape data recorded by the transducers allow conclusions to be drawn about the Suitability of certain process behavior patterns. Conversely, you can from the data processing device also suggestions or control impulses for a targeted change in the settings of additional side roller tables, the infeed table and straighteners.
  • a profiling machine with detection means for detection the position data of all adjustable roll forming tools, with the data processing device controlled motorized adjustment elements, with a detector and measuring sensors as well as a correspondingly executed software for the data processing device is equipped, gives the operator of the profiling machine So not just the possibility of being very quick and inexpensive a profile shape to another profile shape, but can also do so contribute to the testing phases of completely new roll forming tools significantly reduce.
  • the system always improves over time more, until the reproducibility of that previously experienced by experienced technicians Feeling fine adjustments made for different profile shapes and different Boundary conditions.
  • the system is learned via a Retracing the manual adjustment carried out by a technician in a test phase, the course of the position data in real time with all current boundary conditions are compared and a functional one Connection is created.
  • the software does not have to start from zero, because the CAD design of the roll forming tools already results a basic setting as a first approximation.
  • this is also a self-regulating system possible based on such a basic setting the adjustment of the profiling machine takes over completely automatically; not to mention the possibility of ongoing quality control with automatic Create corrective interventions.
  • FIG. 1 The parts of a shown in Figure 1 in a schematic perspective view
  • Profiling machine essentially comprise eight in a row arranged forming stations 1 for multi-stage forming a to be profiled Workpiece 2 and a central data processing device 3, the is symbolized here by a monitor and via signal lines 4 with position data acquisition means 5 is connected to the forming stations 1.
  • the forming stations 1 are attached to a symbolically represented machine frame 6.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates, which shows a forming station 1 from FIG. 1 in detail
  • a forming station 1 of the present embodiment from a scaffold 7 as a tool holder for two pairs of roll forming tools 8 which are in the frame 7 are mounted on two parallel, horizontally running shafts 9, and one Side roller table 10 as a tool holder for two designed as side rollers 11 Roll forming tools.
  • the side rollers 11 are slidably fastened on the slide 12 in the side roller table 10, whereby two adjustment elements 13 are responsible for the displacement.
  • the Adjustment elements 13 also serve as detection means for detecting the position data of the two side rollers 11, which is why they via signal lines 4 with the Data processing device 3 are connected.
  • the framework 7 essentially consists of two mutually opposite, along two guide columns 14 vertically displaceable bearing yokes 15, in which the shafts 9 of the roll-forming tools 8 are mounted. Both Shafts 9 and the associated bearing yokes 15 are each assigned one Servo motor 16 for an axial adjustment of the position of the roll forming tools 8 perform.
  • the servomotors each act on a spindle 17 on the opposite one
  • Each end of a position transmitter 18 as a detection means for Detect the axial position of the roll forming tools 8 attached and via signal lines 4 is connected to the data processing device 3.
  • FIG. 3 shows a section of the elements of a profiling machine according to the invention shown in FIG the other side shows:
  • a position sensor is located on each of the two bearing yokes 15 19, the current vertical position of the respective bearing yoke 15 and thus the horizontal position of the shaft 9 and the roll-forming tools 8 via signal lines 4 reports to the central data processing device 3.
  • This position encoder 19 can in particular be servomotors by the data processing device 3 can be controlled and the vertical adjustment of each Make bearing yokes completely independent of the other parameters.
  • the signal processing in the data processing device 3 takes place in the above detailed way.

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DE50104595T DE50104595D1 (de) 2001-03-27 2001-03-27 Profiliermaschine mit mehreren, in Linie hintereinander angeordneten Umformstationen
DK01107591T DK1245302T3 (da) 2001-03-27 2001-03-27 Profileringsmaskine med flere på linie efter hinanden anbragte omformningsstationer
AT01107591T ATE283123T1 (de) 2001-03-27 2001-03-27 Profiliermaschine mit mehreren, in linie hintereinander angeordneten umformstationen
ES01107591T ES2232535T3 (es) 2001-03-27 2001-03-27 Maquina perfiladora con varias estaciones de conformacion dispuestas en linea una tras otra.
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