The current environmental issues are having an increasing impact on all areas of manufacturing, none more so than that of automobile production.
Many new, innovative methods and materials have been introduced to reduce a vehicles weight, such as the use of aluminium and composite materials. This can been seen especially in the recent developments of electric vehicles.
In terms of production productivity, the introduction of servo presses has realized increases in the productivity of sheet metal stamping and processing.
Parallel to this, SANKYO have been developing and producing products to aid in these increases in efficiency.
During the process of stamping and trimming sheet metal. Often burrs and chips occur, which is especially Important to avoid for parts that require a critical trim line. When this happens, it may mean that the part has to be re-worked. Burring may also cause problems during assembly, for example marrying of parts. In order to overcome these problems, SANKYO have developed the SUFC floating cutter.
Using the SUFC will greatly reduce, if not eliminate burred and chips parts. Since its introduction in 2019, the SUFC has been used extensively in the Japanese market.
The SUFC is assembled as an integral part of a tools upper trim cutter. This ensures a clean trim line ensuring that burrs and chips are kept to a minimum and in doing so, increases efficiencies and reduces the need for reworking.
In the case of the upper die blade being of a nonstandard shape or size. The SUFC can be adapted to suit. The cutters installation is made easy due to the 0.5mm horizontal tolerance and can be adjusted accordingly when assembling the upper blade of the tool. In addition the SUFC provides an improvement in the ease in which scrape falls out.
FEATURES OF SUFC
• Life time: 500,000 cycles durable without maintenance
• Max. stroke: 6mm
• Suitable especially aluminium and steel sheet metal panels
• Open space around the cutter
• Off-set structure: non-interference on pad side
