Radial Press Usage Data Interface for Decentralized Supply
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Solution Overview
Problem
Highly precise radial presses used for crimping hose sections are complex and expensive, making them unprofitable for decentralized production and supply, especially for small lot sizes, limiting their availability to users who need high-quality radial pressings.
Innovation Solution
A radial press equipped with a device for recording and transmitting usage data, including energy consumption and pressing intensity, allows for usage-based billing and decentralized supply by enabling the machine costs to be apportioned to individual users or units, facilitating wider market coverage with high-quality radial presses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If radial presses are equipped with high precision components and complex control systems to achieve high-quality pressing results, then manufacturing precision and reliability are improved, but device complexity and production costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the operational parameters of the radial press by enabling variable pressing forces, speeds, and cycles through the control system. This allows the same machine to adapt to different pressing requirements without requiring multiple specialized machines, thereby maintaining high precision while reducing overall system complexity and cost.
Solution Approach 2:
The radial press is designed with multi-functional capabilities to perform various pressing tasks on different workpiece types and sizes. The programmable control system allows the machine to be reconfigured for different applications, eliminating the need for multiple dedicated pressing machines and reducing device complexity while maintaining manufacturing precision.
2Manufacturing precision
If radial presses are designed as complex expensive precision machines to meet high technical demands, then manufacturing precision is improved, but ease of manufacture and accessibility worsen
Solution Approach 1:
By implementing variable pressing parameters and programmable control, the machine can achieve high precision results across different applications without requiring multiple specialized machines. This reduces the overall complexity and cost barrier, improving accessibility while maintaining pressing quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces complex mechanical adjustment mechanisms with electronic control and programming. This substitution reduces mechanical complexity, lowers manufacturing costs, and improves ease of manufacture while maintaining or enhancing pressing quality through precise digital control.
3Manufacturing precision
If high-priced radial presses are deployed for decentralized production with small lot sizes, then manufacturing precision is maintained, but productivity and profitability worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The radial press is designed to handle multiple workpiece types, sizes, and pressing requirements through programmable control. This multi-functionality allows a single machine to serve multiple customers and applications in decentralized production, improving utilization rates and profitability while maintaining manufacturing precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The machine features dynamic adjustable parameters including pressing force, speed, and cycle time that can be optimized for each specific job. This flexibility allows the machine to efficiently handle small lot sizes and varied production requirements, improving productivity and profitability in decentralized manufacturing environments.
4Ease of operation
If radial presses operate without usage tracking and cost allocation systems, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of information and cost accountability worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The control system automatically records pressing parameters, cycle counts, and operational data, providing feedback on machine usage and performance. This automated data collection maintains ease of operation while preventing loss of information by systematically tracking and storing usage data for analysis and cost allocation.
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AI summary
In a radial press having a base structure, having a press tool accommodated therein and having a machine controller, the base structure has two structural elements which can be moved relative to one another in the sense of a closing movement by means of a drive unit which is acted on by the machine controller. The press tool comprises a plurality of press jaws which are arranged concentrically around a press axis and the distance of which to the press axis is dependent on the position of the two structural elements relative to one another. The machine controller is also assigned operating and display elements. The radial press also has a device for detecting usage intensity and for generating usage data representative of the usage of the radial press within a defined time period. Here, there is furthermore provided an interface which is connected in data-transmitting fashion to the device and which is suitable for communicating the usage data to an external entity.