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- Hera hera sheet metal working machine and systems
Hera hera sheet metal working machine and systems
Hera sheet metal working machine and systems
Hydraulic press brakes:
- Working width up to 6100 mm
- Pressure force from 800 to 4000 kN
- Heavy all-welded fabrication
- Floor level mounting design up to 200 t and 4100 mm working width, 300 t and 3600 mm working width
- Integrated hydraulic valve block, proportioning valve control
- Electro-hydraulic synchronization control
- Wide free space between side frames, Large gap, small table
- Integrated bowing facility
- External linear guides
- Flexible tool mounting
- Hydraulic tool clamping
- Motorized stop on up to four axes
- CNC screen control up to eight axes, if required with color/graphic screen
- Low maintenance
Production systems:
- Transfer lines for sheets up to 5 mm thick and up to 2.5 m wide have been in operation for 80,000 h
- Relatively good economics on account of multi-position principle with relatively short cycle times
- Automatic production plants for series-produced sheet metal parts (shelves, bases, electrical cabinets, doors, radiators, ceiling elements, etc.)
- Flexible production systems for shearing, punching, and folding
- Automatic feed to and discharge from all HERA sheet metalworking machines
- Handling and stacking facilities
- Complete design and supply of plants incorporating stored program and CNC controls (hard and software)
- Development of products to suit manufacture
Hydraulic guillotine shears:
- Working width up to 6000 mm
- Plate thickness up to 32mm
- Heavy all-welded fabrication incorporating swing-cut principle
- Integrated hydraulic set Axial piston pump, load-dependent energy consumption
- Central cutting gap adjustment manual or motorized
- Automatically controlled hold-down clamp pressure
- Motorized back gauge with digital display
- Knife change without tension and compression bolts
- Infinitely variable cutting width adjustment
- Electro-hydraulic overload protection
- Special design with motorized front gauge and hydraulic gripping tongs, with stacking facilities, with hold-up device
Shearing lines:
- Machine control designs: Conventional relays, stored program, CNC and multi-axis screen controls
- Low maintenance
Mechanical folding machines:
- Working width up to 6000 mm
- Plate thickness up to 20 mm
- Heavy all-welded fabrication
- All drives on both sides
- Folding beam inside driven by toothed segments
- Front and rear motorized gauge systems
- Wide adjustment range for all beams
- Can always be subsequently equipped with special tools
- Special design
- Double-acting folding machines
- Design machine control systems: Conventional relays, stored program, CNC and multi-axis CNC screen controls
- Low maintenance
Fully hydraulic folding machines:
- Working width up to 6000 mm
- Plate thickness up to 8 mm
- Heavy all-welded fabrication
- Integrated hydraulics proportioning valve control, space-saving
- Electro-hydraulic synchronization control
- Relatively low, load-dependent energy consumption
- Fast operating speeds: Upper beam 100 mm/s, Folding beam 60 °/s
- Highly accurate positioning: Upper beam +/- 0.1 mm, Folding beam +/- 0.5 °
- Front and rear motorized stop systems
- Special design Wire mesh mat folding machines, Transfer lines for plates up to 6 mm
- Multi-axis CNC screen control with DNC interface
- Low maintenance
It is now 50 years since HERA Maschinenfabrik built their first manually operated folding machine. As with other HERA sheet metalworking machines, this has been constantly developed to meet practical requirements.