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Maverick now offers injection molding preventative maintenance packages to the plastics industry! Repair, troubleshooting, and installation of injection mold machines and peripheral equipment.
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Machine Tools
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Machine Tool Laser Alignment and Calibration |
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 Reduce scrap parts and protect your investment by having a quarterly or annual machine tool laser alignment. Machine tool alignment and calibration is required to maintain your ISO certification!
There is much more to maintenance than keeping the machine running!One of the most critical factors in any machine tool maintenance program is knowing your machine's level of accuracy and tolerances. Your machine tool should be level, flat, and square in all axes, mechanically adjusted to acceptable tolerances, and any linear error should be corrected to OEM specifications - which includes documentation certifying the accuracy of the machine.
Significantly Reduce Part Setup Time One benefit of having a properly aligned machine tool is that part setup time is significantly reduced. An article in the October 1998 issue of Quality in Manufacturing Magazine describes the incredible benefit of laser alignment to the John Deere Corporation. In the words of Jim Abitz, tool and die maker, "...[laser alignment] makes the operators a lot happier because they don't have to struggle for two or three shifts to get a machine to work properly."
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 September 2005 )
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Laser Alignment - Experience Matters! |
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 Would you let someone perform laser surgery on your eyes without knowing how much experience he has on the equipment or whether the person using the laser is qualified?
The same applies to your machines. If you are expecting the best results possible, you need to know if the technician performing the alignments and accuracys on your equipment is factory trained and certified with the laser equipment they are using. Not only are our technicians fully trained and factory certified on the laser equipment, they all have a minimum of 8 years experience in the field.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 September 2005 )
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Roll Alignment |
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 Having trouble with wrinkles?
Is your material wandering or walking to one side?
Then you have a roll alignment problem! A Maverick Systems roll alignment is the answer. We will assess the machine to determine where the trouble is originating from in your process. Whether it's film lines, paper mills, printing presses, or corrugated lines, we have years of experience dealing with all types of alignment issues on many types of machines. Our history of performing complete turnkey relocations and installations provides Maverick Systems technicians with not only extensive alignment experience, but the capability to perform all the necessary mechanical corrections for all types of machines.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 September 2005 )
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Roll Former Alignment |
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Are you experiencing difficulties holding tolerances in length or material straightness of your roll formed product? How about an angular or dimensional cross-sectional problem?
Roll Former misalignments can be very hard to find. Immediately everyone wants to start by moving the
guides, forming roll spacers or adjusting pressures. The proper way to determine where the problems are originating from is to start with a complete footprint of the entire line, from uncoiler to finished product. Every component should be set to a centerline or an offset centerline, then each component needs to be square, parallel, and perpendicular to each other, as well as centered. If the mill has a two piece base it also needs to be level and square.
If any of the components are out of square to one another or too far off centers, then it can apply pressure on the product while feeding. It also causes it to rise or warp from one component to the next, which may also be a little misaligned, and by the time it reaches the roll form mill it has pressures applied to it from two or more directions.
Maverick Systems technicians can perform a laser inspection of the entire line. Once the inspection is complete, you will have a footprint of any and all misalignments throughout the length of the roll former line. The footprint allows our technician to determine which components are creating the alignment issues and begin making adjustments to correct them.
Here are some of the problems you may be encountering with the finished product due to misalignment of the Roll Former Line.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 September 2005 )
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Horizontal Roll Parallelism |
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 How we measure horizontal roll parallelism using laser alignment equipment
First, the laser is placed on an instrument stand near the reference roll at the side of the machine and leveled using its 1 or 2-arc-second level vials. The vertical laser plane is made approximately parallel to the reference roll using visual aids.
Determining Horizontal and Vertical Reference PointsWe then place one target horizontally on the reference roll at the closest point to laser and adjust it until it detects the laser and zeros in. The target is then moved to the far end of the roll. A second target is placed on the same point on the roll that is closest to the laser and zeroed out. Since both targets were zeroed at the same point on the roll, they become the reference points for the roll.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 27 September 2005 )
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Fixture Leveling and Alignment |
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 Maverick Systems laser technicians have experience leveling and aligning a wide variety of fixtures and tools in the Aerospace field and in the private sector. Although some have been challenging, we have always had success with the outcome and our customers have always been pleased with the results. Our technicians have aligned and leveled fixtures and tools of various sizes and shapes. The kinds of fixtures and tools that we have encountered include:
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 September 2005 )
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Laser Alignment 