Schleifstein Press Retrofits

Posted on 13, Sep | Posted by admin

Schleifstein Press Retrofits at Your Facility

To this day Schleifstein Maschinentechnik GmbH (SMT) has implemented a significant number of bumper presses, manipulators and flangers at customer sites all across North America over many years. With many of these machines being 20 years or older SMT together with GBS have proposed and implemented a significant number of press retrofits at our customers’ plant sites. After thorough inspection of your equipment we will submit a complete proposal to strip down the press to where the frame(s) remain. With frames repaired and repainted SMT will then add a new high efficiency hydraulic system, which includes new pipe installation and a new Siemens S7 control system with new wires and a control cabinet. Cylinders will be replaced adding absolute measuring systems. This new feature enables the addition of automatic set-up and playback to the system. The retrofitted press is now almost new and provides you with increased productivity running at more than twice the speed. Up-time increases due to faster set-up times and better production quality is achieved. Call us if a press retrofit is something you would like to consider!

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Global Business Support Committed to Highest Quality Standards

Posted on 12, Sep | Posted by admin

GBS and its Technology Providers committed to continued improvement of highest quality standards.

Together with our long-term partner Schleifstein Maschinentechnik GmbH (SMT) we are fully committed to help our customers with the improvement of surface quality issues with our industry leading technologies.  SMT and GBS continue to provide surface treatment equipment with a specific focus on automotive ‘class A’ press shops.  Recently installed coil- and blank washers at Chrysler facilities in Mexico are generating highest levels of surface cleanliness in the industry.  Recent surface particle measurements at these facilities confirm that each and every blank entering the transfer press is super clean.  These super clean surfaces combined with SMT’s re-oiler (spray lubrication system) deliver the optimum conditions for consistent stamping quality yielding highest productivity.   Original Equipment Manufacturers and Tier One Suppliers in Europe, the Americas, and Asia today are using SMT washers or brush cleaners in combination with re-oilers.

In partnership with uwe braun GmbH we continue our mission to improve surface inspection reliability for automotive (surface) production from press shops to final vehicle inspection facilities.  uwe braun GmbH has set the industry’s standards for maximizing the detection of surface failures on stamped, primed and finish polish surfaces.  Expensive repairs later are avoided and the root cause of surface imperfections can be analyzed and eliminated.  uwe braun GmbH capabilities have been studied and implemented at Volkswagen facilities, where the companies inspection lighting systems are the designated ‘standard’ for Volkswagen facilities worldwide.   Ford 6 Sigma Team have analyzed and compared our systems with competitors and Ford in-house systems.   These comparative studies and their results came to prove significant surface quality improvements and generated large cost savings for our customers.

Are you working with tubes, castings, pressure lines, exhaust systems, pumps, radiators or cooling components?  H. Schreiner GmbH and GBS offer ideal leak test solutions.  Our recently introduced LPC 850 Leak Test Computer sets the latest standards in leak detection in the industry.  This latest technology will ensure highest quality in the production of automotive components.

Three-M Tool and Machine’s wind turbine facility specializes in the machining of large casting components for the wind turbine industries.  These components include windmill transmission housings, planetary carriers, torque arms and flanges.  Three M has extensive experience in the machining of such components for industry leaders such as Clipper, ZF, Moventas, and others.  This modern facility houses several large G&L boring mills and machining centers as well as the largest cubic volume Zeiss CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) installed in North America to support your quality requirements.  The Zeiss CMM (6 x 4 x 3m measuring cube) will provide you with a measuring protocol of a machined component, which confirms that specified machining dimensions have been achieved.

Together with our Technology Providers we are committed to highest quality standards!

 

 

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