Recently retrofit this turret punch machine from Trumpf in Kazan, Russia. Had been a great experience. Replaced 6 servos on the machine with Chinese AC servos. Used a customized screen for user interface and tons of coding in VB script, brains and Arduino to make the different functions work. Mechanical structure of machine was excellent and after the new electronics installed the useful service life of the machine was extended for many years.
Customer was not happy at all with the old Bosch controller which broke every other day. After tinkering with it for over a year they invited us over for the retrofit. The look on the customer's face was priceless when the machine started punching and produced their first part effortlessly. Reclamping, autoindex, auto-retracting clamps and a load of other functions were programmed in the controller. Took us almost a month including the mechanical fittings of motors, display screen, keyboards, and other stuff.
Here is the video of the machine in operation.
https://youtu.be/epibX_NZ1IsZafar
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