The technology leader has been shaping the industry for over 111 years now and continues to develop new solutions for the production of threaded and profiled parts. With the digital “iQ-machine assistants”, thread rolling machine specialist E.W. Menn supports its customers in the optimal production of threaded or profiled parts. The digital “iQ-machine assistants” are characterized by simple operation, fast and repeatable setup as well as by an overview of effectiveness and resources used.

Longevity
"Effective setup and high quantities with consistently excellent quality and minimal use of resources are the drivers of the developments," says Hendrik Scharf, Technical Director at E.W. Menn. In the current series, all machines have the “Prevent+Support” feature as standard for a long service life and high value preservation through regular maintenance. Upcoming maintenance work is conveniently displayed and visually explained to the operator. Completed maintenance work can be easily confirmed. A transparent overview is always ensured for maintenance thanks to the archiving and display of maintenance work carried out.

Gentle working
If the machine is equipped with linear motorized positioning of the feedfinger, in short: an “LMP-Feedfinger”, the LMP Assist function is also included as standard. The machine operator is effectively guided on the machine touch panel to a setting that ensures precise, fast and gentle insertion of the blanks.

 “iQ”-Setup Assist - The assistant for a simple and repeatable setup. This function enables an even more precise and faster preparation of the machine. Almost without tools, the system allows product-specific settings to be adopted by push-button. Articles and their specific settings can be saved in the database and are continuously compared. The machine operator is effectively supported during the setup process by displaying the target and actual values. Transparent work processes are ensured. Digital displays, e.g., on the die basket, provide directional information and visualize the set values user-friendly with signal colors. Process optimizations can be implemented very easily with this system and deviations from article-specific setup parameters that have already been made are always indicated.

Key figures
Today more than ever, a simple overview of process key figures is an important data basis for the production. Some of the E.W. Menn “iQ”-machine assistants have been developed specifically for this purpose.The “iQ-OEE Monitor” creates a bundled performance overview of the overall equipment effectiveness. The degree of utilization, quality factor and performance factor are displayed. This function is therefore ideal for evaluating equipment effectiveness and for technological process evaluation. Data from the latest machine generation can be easily transmitted to a company network in conjunction with a compatible data collection system via an OPC UA interface that can be configured on request.

 The “iQ-Energy Monitor” provides a further central overview of the current and total electrical and pneumatic energy consumption during the machine operation. This machine assistant evaluates the energy consumption per article, batch or operating time as needed to make costs more calculable or to make the product-specific footprint recordable.

The displayed and bundled performance overview is therefore ideally suited for a technological and process-based evaluation, so that process optimizations can be identified and energy saving potentials can be deduced in terms of sustainability support.

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E. W. Menn GmbH+Co. KG
Trift 8, 57271 Hilchenbach/Germany
Tel.: +49 2733 1292-0
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