Application Spotlight: Servos Drive Precision, Productivity for New Electric Press
Beckwood Press has long been known for the reliability and cost-effectiveness of its hydraulic industrial presses. This heritage caused the Beckwood engineering team to take extra care in designing and building EVOx, the company's new line of electric press products. Choosing motion control by Yaskawa allowed Beckwood to deliver the repeatable precision that is a hallmark of electric products, without sacrificing the proven long-term performance Beckwood is famous for.
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00:00:09 [Music] people look at beckwood as being on the forefront of technology and you know we're known as the company that likes to push the limits and try new things so we have customers constantly calling us and asking us hey what's the latest and greatest what's the new best thing out on the market [Music]
00:00:50 [Music] electric is becoming such a everyday part in our lives even from cars to lawn mowers to weed eaters to you know presses that people are getting on board with them there's no hydraulic fluid to deal with no leaks
00:01:15 more green and quieter and i think that opens up another opportunity for applications that maybe they didn't think were possible before a hydraulic press we can typically get down to about 5 000 accuracy the evos can generally get one power even better than that when we come to market with something that's multiple times more precise than traditional hydraulic
00:01:36 presses it really starts to get customers minds moving and they start thinking what could i do on my shop floor if i had to press like that and so the response has been really overwhelmingly positive you're running 200 watt motors all the way up to 55 kilowatt motors from the motion control side it's going to be exactly the same
00:01:58 if you can run one million cycles and never have to touch the machine worry about anything it's higher up time more production and less maintenance costs some customers can put millions of cycles on one of these pieces of equipment a year some customers they might run one cycle a day there was quite a bit of concern about
00:02:18 how we're going to learn this technology it was a news concept of beckwood and one of the major selection criteria for yaskawa was having the local support and a vendor who knew how to program these and could teach us the basics not only email or phone calls but they came on site and spent days out here teaching us helping us learn and
00:02:40 developing with us right you know sitting beside us writing code beckwood brought a really heavy knowledge base on presses and on how presses perform and applications for presses and what we needed the machine to do and likewise yaskawa brought a really good application knowledge on the devices themselves the drives the motors
00:03:03 so through combining our experiences and our knowledge we ended up getting into a really good place with the evo line using beckwood's manufacturing experience and yaskawa's product knowledge you