Tecnargilla Preview - Sacmi presents the new PHR 1008

At Tecnargilla 2008 SACMI is showcasing the new PHR 1008, a newly designed 10,000 kN hydraulic press suitable for refractories and ceramic with high thickness and complex geometries (tubes, cones, nozzles, stoppers, checkers, etc.).
The structure has been completely redesigned by means of stress analysis criteria based on FEM simulations. The consequent exceptional level of safety allows SACMI to offer a unique 10-year mechanical warranty on the principal structural components.
The height of soft material loading has been increased to 800 mm to allow for the shaping of articles of ever greater depth and one or more accessory hydraulic blocks can be provided for differential load movements.
Much attention has been given to the machine interface, enhanced by extremely practical and useful accessories such as the DGP (Guided Press Diagnostics) kit which is designed to provide the operator with simple and intuitive help in understanding and solving all the potential causes of malfunctions, while saving time and reducing production stoppages to a bare minimum.

At the Sacmi stand, the PHR 1008 allows visitors to admire an anthropomorphic robot engineered by Gaiotto (Sacmi Group) with six movement axes for unloading the press and loading pallets or kiln cars. Equipped with a suction gripper suitable for picking up and depositing pieces independently, it delivers virtually unlimited freedom in terms of palletisation layout. The palletisation cell is also equipped with a video camera for defect recognition on the handled pieces. When equipped with the Gaiotto robot, the PHR press offers a high level of automation and reliability, enabling it to operate autonomously with very little need for human control or intervention.

Faithful to SACMI’s tradition of passion for mechanical engineering, for pushing back technical frontiers and for developing innovative design concepts, the Special Pressing business unit builds on the expertise the company has acquired in decades of experience in hydraulic, structural and electronic design in order to offer its services as a solid, consistent and reliable partner for long-term technological growth.
The organisational unit, set up in 2006 for the purpose of consolidating the most important technical results, aims to achieve excellence in the most sophisticated and advanced shaping processes that can be performed by hydraulic pressing, not only in consolidated areas such as shaping of refractory and ceramic products with high thickness and complex geometries or in the development of ductile metal alloys, but also in new technical areas where the characteristics of precision, rapidity and consistency of hydraulic pressing can find new applications or substitute shaping techniques that offer a lower level of industrial integration or reliability (e.g. deformation of corrugated sheets).