MG Hydraulic Plate Bending Rolls - Controllers

The advanced MG Nexus NC and Touch Command EVO CNC controls are designed to apply an advanced new level of automation to the sheet and plate rolling process. Significant time and labour cost reductions can be achieved in production environments by developing programs which can recalled and run by operators without specific knowledge of plate bending, rather than relying on skilled labour to continuously operate the machinery.

Nexus NC Control

The Nexus NC is a powerful unit controlling the position of the two pre-bending rolls, the feeding of the material and the pinch pressure as standard. It can also control optional equipment such as side supports and overhead supports, and can interface with powered in-feed roller track if required. It works on a teach-in and play back method, with the operator first creating a part manually, during which the program memorises all the machine operations required to produce the finished component. Programs can then be manually edited to remove any superfluous steps before being finally saved in the program memory to be recalled for production use.

Machine Features

• Industrial touch screen NC control

• Simple teach-in and play back operation

• Manual editing for optimisation of program prior to production

• Stores 300 programs each with up to 99 steps

• Controls pre-bending roll positions, material feeding and pinch pressure

• Has functionality to control optional side supports and central overhead support

• Can be interfaced to PLC control to work with powered in-feed roller track

Touch Command ECO CNC Control

The Touch Command EVO CNC is a result of continuous research and development by MG’s in-house team, building on their vast experience of numerically controlled bending rolls. Due to the difficulty of allowing for differences in material yield strengths, the control has been developed with the ability to input the results of test bends performed on the actual material. Once the results have been factored in, the material can be stored in the material library ready to be recalled and used with standard or imported shapes from the shape library. Shapes can then be dimensioned to requirements before the CNC automatically creates the program from the details entered.

Machine Features

• User friendly and powerful touch screen CNC control

• Ability to test material properties and store the results in a material library

• Standard shape library ready to edit to required dimensions

• Facility to import shapes from DXF file via USB

• Automatically creates CNC program ready for production

• Program calculates the developed length to allow accurate cutting of the material

• High capacity on-board program storage