Like other technologies that couldn't keep up with the times, controls that only flashed a light to warn an operator of a stopped stamping press have long outlived their usefulness. As manufacturers have expanded their expectations for press controls, the technology has evolved, and will continue to evolve. "In the 1970s and into the '80s, metalformers wanted a control that would make the press go down and up," explains Dean Phillips, sales engineer for Link Systems, Nashville, TN. "They then sought more - slide adjust, counterbalance and other functions to reduce the amount of time that operators required to perform such tasks." Today, offers Phillips, one-button operation is the ideal.
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