BRANKAMP Machine & Tool Process Monitoring
TDT Technology Ltd is the official UK & Ireland importer, sales distributer and service agent for a range of European machine-tool-sector related manufacturers producing some of the most technologically advanced products and systems in the world. One such technical partner being German based BRANKAMP, who have over three decades of experience of the manufacturing and production process monitoring industry.
Increased quality, better productivity and decreased costs - these are the main objectives of every state-of-the-art manufacturing process environment and process monitoring plays a pivotal role in achieving these objectives. Professor Dr Ing Klaus Brankamp launched this innovative technology thirty years ago, which above all facilitates optimised quality and an improved level of utilisation in the industrial manufacturing process sector.
Today Brankamp's technology is recognised in every respect and over 50,000 Brankamp process monitoring applications are in use worldwide. Buzzwords such as "ghost shift", "productivity increase", "automation" and "quality" are inextricably linked with the name Brankamp in the metal processing industry.
Why Process Monitoring?
Consistent reliable quality and optimum productivity of all existing metal process machines and tools is essential for the assured control of the production process. These are the key performance indicators of an efficient and up-to-date production shop and Brankamp process monitoring equipment is used today in many companies throughout the world as an essential tool for efficient production.
What are the Benefits of Process Monitoring?
Keeping machine tools in optimum condition can pay handsome dividends for operations where tool breakage is common. BRANKAMP units protect machines and any irregularities in the force patterns are immediately detected due to the pre-set monitoring limits, which can be set according to your unique application. With even the smallest deviation from normal forces, the monitoring system reacts - before major tool damage occurs. Process Monitoring provides the following benefits and is a Setting Aid, enabling shorter setup times and more accurate setups.
- Overload Protection of Machine & Tooling
- Avoidance of Wipe-Outs
- Improved Product Quality
- Reduction of Downtime, Repair & Setting Time
- Reduction of Repair, Tooling & Scrap Costs
- Multi-Machine Handling
- Potential to Increase Machine Speed Significantly & Safely
Tool Protection through Process Monitoring
Minor problems translate to major damage and expenditure. Typical of high demand machine applications, tool damage can substantially affect final profitability particularly if the machine and the following stages are run at high speed. Brankamp systems offer optimum protection against damage to expensive tools. The results are simple: lower costs and longer tool life.
Quality Control through Process Monitoring
Production quality is the decisive competitive differentiator of today. It is also the factor that will determine and secure market share in the future. Quality is measurable, but what you need is adequate process monitoring tools.
BRANKAMP systems are instruments that guarantee consecutive and consistent quality production - component by component. The Brankamp process monitor enables the machine to immediately recognise a problem with quality and thus prevent the production of rejected components, or it will identify faulty components in "Real-Time" and separate them from good parts made without machine stops.
Machine Utilisation with Brankamp Process Monitoring
BRANKAMP systems give you the security and confidence needed to run production machinery during shift pattern breaks and even unmanned production shifts, enabling machine utilisation of way above 100%.This gives you the opportunity to make far better use of the possibilities for flexible working hours for production machinery personnel.
Brankamp Process Monitoring Product Overview
BRANKAMP offers a complete range of process monitoring systems from sensors to monitoring systems, centralised collection of production data to comprehensive documentation of quality data. Please Contact Us for further details, prices and technical information.
Brankamp Open Modular Architecture (BOMA)
A transfer line, a rotary index machine or a machining centre have to be controlled. Firstly the machine should be protected against collision. Later on, cutting processes need to be optimised and the machine should continue to be in production during breaks and ghost shifts. Finally all machines should be controlled from one single device that can also collect all shop floor data. Is there any monitoring system that can do it all?
Yes - BOMA offers modular components from a single source: sensors, machine interfaces, monitoring units and shop floor data collection systems. You have the choice of simple one-channel units like BRANKAMP 100, or 256-channel units like BRANKAMP 100 Tower. Or process terminals with touch screen technology, including programmes to visualise and optimise process operations plus shop floor data collection. All components of Brankamp Open Modular Architecture are simple to install, they are easy-to-use, modular and of course they can be integrated into your CNC.
Process Monitoring Systems
Reliable process monitors for tool and machine protection for cutting machines, metal forming machines, stamping presses and special machines.
- Brankamp PK 6000
- Brankamp PK 5000
- Brankamp PK 4000
- Brankamp PK 4U
- Brankamp PK 600
- Brankamp PK 550
- Brankamp C 100
- Brankamp CMS
- Brankamp B100
- Brankamp GT
Special Monitoring Programs
- Envelope curve monitoring
- Monitoring metal packaging
- Machine Integrated Process Monitoring
- Acoustic Emission Monitoring
- Triple M: Modular – Multi Sensor – Multitasking
Shop Floor Data Collection
- Factory M
- Easy Recording eR5
Shop Floor Data Collection Systems
- Brankamp GT
Brankamp Monitoring Sensors
Turning, grinding, drilling, milling, turn broaching, whirling, drawing, cutting, stamping, forming, clinching; the demands on sensors are as numerous as the applications in metal processing. Brankamp offers sensors for any kind of operation and its units are able to process all sensor signals in parallel. This is Brankamp multi-sensor technology, part of BOMA (Brankamp Open Modular Architecture). In other words; all Brankamp sensors fit to all units and all sensors can be combined with any other sensor.
- PDA
- Combiflex
- MIS
- Vario sensor
- Power sensor
- 3K quartz
- Micro sensor
- Acoustic emission sensor
Production Aid
- Brankamp Dosomat
