TPT July 2022

T E CHNOLOG Y

George A Mitchell manufactures specialised push pointer for cold drawing steel tubes

mechanism driven by a hydraulic motor. These devices have proven to be very expensive and costly to maintain. In other special applications, the servo motor system allows for varying angular positions, whereas the rotary cam indexing devices used previously could only achieve equal angular positions. One safety advantage of the servo motor system is, during a die change, the rotary die head can be rotated without requiring the hydraulic pumping unit to be running, which facilitates a very fast and safe method for die change. Mitchell also recently delivered a 33,000lb five die rotary hydraulic push pointer for copper tubes, a 50,000lb five die rotary hydraulic push pointer for copper tubes, a 150,000lb four die rotary hydraulic push pointer for aluminium tubes and a 150,000lb six die rotary hydraulic rod push pointer for solid superconductor rod. Mitchell push pointing machines have several advantages including material savings, low noise level, improved ergonomics and safety, reduced changeover time and stronger and straighter points.

usually used for aluminium or copper material and it is unusual for steel tube to require more than three reductions, however, this customer has unique high D/t ratio products, which require up to five reductions. The rotation of the indexing die head is carried out via the use of a servo motor and drive system. The servo system allows infinite rotational adjustment and near perfect angular accuracy. The original device Mitchell used for rotary die heads was a rotary cam indexing

GEORGE AMitchell Company has been contracted to supply a 33,000lb five die rotary hydraulic push pointer for a US manufacturer of cold drawn steel tubes. The company, which is based in Ohio, US has produced more than 60 rotary die head push pointers of various capacities over the last 58 years of business. A rotary die head push pointer is used when more than three dies are needed to accomplish a specific schedule of point reductions prior to the cold drawing operation. They are

George A Mitchell Company www.mitchellmachinery.com The 33,000lb five die rotary hydraulic push pointer serial No PP-734 Bystronic par tners with NanoLock to develop tube automation security solutions

Eran Fine, co-founder and CEO of NanoLock, added: “Smart factories must integrate strong machine-level protection against cyber security risks to ensure the operational integrity of their systems. Our machine-level solution brings trustworthy protection to industrial systems without having any impact on performance. We are proud to work with Bystronic and jointly develop secure solutions for their smart systems – thereby setting a benchmark for the entire industry.”

their entire material and data flow. In the future, customers will connect their systems as devices to the cloud and for that reason, cyber security is of utmost importance. With the new partnership, we ensure peace of mind for our customers by covering all aspects for our customers’ smart factories.” To mitigate exposure of customer systems to potential cyber risks at these interconnections, Bystronic and NanoLock are developing new secure solutions to ensure that Bystronic smart machines are cyber secure devices. The two companies will present their joint solution at EuroBlech 2022.

BYSTRONIC has announced a partnership with NanoLock Security, a device-level cyber security provider, to co-develop solutions for its sheet and tube metal cutting, bending and automation systems. Bystronic has developed its own Smart Factory Software Suite, together with the recently acquired company Kurago. The Suite digitises all business processes and interconnects machines with all other customer processes. Alberto Martínez, chief digital officer at Bystronic, said: “Our vision regarding the factory of the future is to give our customers the capability to manage

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