Roll Tooling
Making rollformers for customers that require customization can be costly. To make it less costly for us, Samco invested in software that would enable us to tryout the material in the rolls on the computer. What many rollform equipment manufacturers do is test the material on new products on the shop floor. If the part doesn’t come out right, often the rolls need to be regrinded. And if the part is very difficult, how many times can the roll tooling be regrinded before they actually need to be remade?
The software we use for our roll tooling on our rollform equipment is called COPRA FEA. It was desined by DATA M in Germany. Samco is the only rollforming equipment manufacturer in North America that is using it to it’s full potential. We will have customers come to us with a part they are thinking about roll forming. We can put it through this software and recommend changes be made to the part to make it less costly to rollform with less passes.
