Nashua, New Hampshire – An automated 30-ton gantry style hydraulic press features a linear transducer mounted in the press cylinder to achieve precise positioning in a pin application. Minimum depth can be programmed into the control to achieve proper pin depth.

The 25ft long hydraulic press includes automated gantry positioning with optical recognition of the distance between each set of pins to be inserted. The cycle can be initiated in autonomous operation where the gantry moves to each pin location and applies the set tonnage on the pins.

"To meet the demands of today's challenging applications, we are providing manufacturers with press solutions that are flexible, productive, and reliable as well as often being quite large and complex," says Greenerd Press & Machine Company’s CEO Jerry Letendre. "For even greater manufacturing efficiency, we are able to provide our hydraulic press customers with turnkey, state-of-the-art robotic product handling solutions.”

Greenerd is a Tier 1 Industrial Authorized Robot System Integrator of Fanuc America Corp., ta leader in automated manufacturing equipment. The partnership gives Greenerd full access to the comprehensive offerings of Fanuc Robots including all models, training and support, providing state-of-the-art automation solutions in short time frames. Complete, fully integrated production systems can be provided including simple raw material feeding systems, and robotic solutions including loading/unloading the press, the ability to perform an optional secondary part manipulation or process, automated inspection of parts and stacking finished products for downstream processes.

The scope of automation can also encompass part inspection systems, ranging from small sensors to complex camera inspections, and temperature monitoring/ control of press and non-press related systems. Streaming critical production data to and from the press is also offered.

Greenerd's extensive line of hydraulic presses are available in a variety of styles ranging from gap frame and straight-side to die-spotting and forging presses, with unlimited size and tonnage capabilities.