SMS group ensures your open-die press achieves not only high production speeds, but also the closest possible forging tolerances and consistently high quality. It also benefits you that we have banked extensive experience in engineering, erection, and complex commissioning. That means we can complete your new construction or modernization projects for open-die forging plants in record time.
We offer you custom-made, high-performance forging solutions for any number of applications. Included here are sophisticated parts such as shafts for ship engines and power station turbines, or flawless and reliable components for aerospace applications. These are just two fields where open-die forging presses represent the best technology. Specifically, you can expect press forces well in excess of 200 MN from our open-die forging presses.
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Push-down forging presses
Main dataWith this press type, you benefit from extensive expertise of SMS group and its subsidiary Hydromec. Wherever ground conditions make deep foundations impossible, and the production building is high enough to accommodate a relatively tall press type, we recommend push-down open-die forging presses. They offer the advantage of low moving masses resulting in a more economic use of energy at high stroke rates.
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Pull-down forging presses
Main dataYour building may be too low for the overall height of the press type necessary to achieve the capacity you want? This is where our pull-down forging presses solve the problem. They also offer the advantage that all hydraulic cylinders are arranged under the floor, so that the hydraulic system is located very close to the consumer resulting in small piping volumes.
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Rail-bound manipulator
Main dataThe rail-bound manipulators easily handle weights of up to several hundred tons and move them precisely. They feature oil-hydraulic high-performance drives with oil-hydraulic motors, gears, and drive shaft in the foundations. An independent control system ensures the precise parallel stroke of the tongs in synch with the press strokes.
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Auxiliary equipment
Main dataAll our open-die forging plants come with advanced auxiliary equipment designed to make your forging operations, die changing, and transportation easier.
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Electrostal forging press
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ForgeBase®
Intelligent technology package
Welcome to your new central control desk, where your staff can select manual, semiautomatic, fully automatic, and program (ForgeBase®) operation modes of the press and one or two manipulators. Here you can see your operator comfortably seated in a cabin – insulated from heat, dust, and noise. Our ForgeBase® control system ensures your forging operations run precisely according to your pre-calculated pass schedules at top speed and cost-effectiveness.
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Western Superconducting Technologies Benefits
- Process is repeatable and independent of the operator, which ensures fewer variations
- Shorter forging time and better process with online data acquisition and nominal value / actual value comparisons
