Transcript Slide 1

Rock series
Rock is located in the medium-high price
segment of straight-line edgers market; this
value is given by:
Performance: Double speed compared to
other machines with the same number of
spindles
Quality: superior finishing level
Precision: extreme accuracy and repeatability
Comfort: no vibration, no noise during
processing
Heavy duty: built to last, 15-20 years with
intensive use
With these features, Rock becomes the most valuable (most convenient,
inexpensive) machine, considering lifetime, maintenance costs, productivity and
quality added value.
Rock processing
• Designed for flat edging with
arris
• Also industrially polished
chamfer up to 10mm (Rock
8 and 11), with special metal
wheel or high-quality
polished chamfer (Rock 1045)
• Glass thickness till 40 mm
• Glass weight up to 2000 Kgs
(250 Kgs per meter)
How is all this technically
obtained?
• Strong know-how and tradition
• Important R&D leading to innovative
technical solutions
• Strong and heavy structure
• Enhanced automation
Strong and heavy structure
Made entirely in:
• Cast iron
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Structure
Spindles and cases
Transmission
Front and rear carters
Racks, inlet-outlet arms
Stainless steel
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Front & rear carters
Thick steel
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16mm
Conveyor guides
ABS
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Top cover, control panel,
inlet and outlet
conveyors cover
30mm
Spindles & cases
55mm
Structure
Conveyors belts by chains
The conveyors belts are driven by a chain
system
• Rubber part in contact with the glass in
long lasting anti-cut material
• The wearing part in contact with the
glass can be easily replaced when
needed, at a low cost.
Conveyor on guides
• The concept is based on by pads sliding on
guides in tempered steel and stainless steel with
an oil film in-between
• This ensure a long life and a parallel wearing
allowing constant quality up to the end
• Guides are mounted on the structure and
replaceable when worn out
• Pads in a material resistant to glass powder
abrasion
• Centralized automatic lubrication system
Conveyor pads
Conveyor pads based on a new patented
concept with double material:
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Body in very hard material with excellent mechanical
performances (no flections, no thermal dilatations)
2. Part in contact with guides in Kevlar for wear-less
performances
The soft rubber part in anti-spot rubber.
• No marks on glass
• Replaceable
• Easy maintenance
Spindles driven by belt
Spindles and motors are separated and linked by
belt system
• No vibration from motor to spindles means
better quality and longer spindle life
• Revolution speed perfectly adjusted to the wheel
need
• All spindles managed from the front side
• Permanent lubrication system
no maintenance required
Control panel with touch screen NC
Rock uses the same CN platform as
Drillmax and Promax
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24V voltage on machine board
Ethernet connection for data transfer or remote
assistance
Wheels absorption with precise graphic indication
Main functions
Speed
– Automatic removal adjustment
– Centralized lubrication management
– Counters:
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Tools life
Total/partial working meters
Total/partial working hours
Programmed maintenance
Alarms
Glass Thickness
Removal adj.
Wheels
absorption
Statistics
Glass position
in conveyor
Electrical cabinet
Placed outside the machine to avoid any type of
oxidation of the electrical components caused by
moisture coming from the machine.
No high voltage on control panel area
Allows easy and quick maintenance
Automatic removal adjustment
Glass to be removed is managed by NC trough an Y
axis 5mm stroke.
The operator can select the removal on the control
panel and the inlet conveyor is automatically adjusted
No manual hand wheel adjustment
Y
Rock features
Rock 10-45
Rock 11
Rock 8
Conveyor driven by inverter
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Automatic glass removal adj.
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High finishing quality
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Liquid cerium circuit
Opt
Opt
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Diamond arrises
1+1
1+1
1+1
Polishing arrises
1+1
1+1
1+1
Flat polishing spindles
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Variable angle 0-45°
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Flat diamond spindles
Benefits
patented conveyor
independent
electrical cabinet
High speed
Low
maintenance
heavy structure
Long
lifetime
maintenance free
spindles driven by belt
powerful NC
User
friendly
rectified
steel guides
High
finishing
quality
spindles assembled
directly on the structure
Maybe using a
DOUBLE
EDGER?
90°
1900mm ±0.5mm/m
90°
How can I get it?
90°
90°
800mm ±0.5mm/m
Maybe using
a CNC
machine?
NEPTUN CAN
SURELY HELP
ME
Edge-to-shape
Edge to Shape: the innovative evolution developed by
Stefano Bavelloni and PATENTED by Neptun which
allows the straight-line edgers of the Rock series to
perform edge processing, with control of the final
geometry both in terms of angles and final desired
dimensions.
From irregular to 90°an now also from 90°to a
defined irregular shape
Edge-to-shape
90°
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ETS
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90°
1900mm ±0.5mm
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90°
800mm ±0.5mm
From indefinite shape to square and to size
90°
Edge-to-shape
2mm
3 mm
1898mm±0.5mm
ETS
1900mm±0.5mm
1904mm
797mm±0.5mm
90°
804mm
800mm±0.5mm
From indefinite shape to defined irregular shape
Edge-to-shape
Rock evolves from conventional machine into a real
CNC machine
Thanks to CNC solutions, the high precision
mechanics, and the new patented conveyor of Rock.
Rock can now be used as an alternative in all the
processes that, up to today, could be carried out only by
CNC machines or double edgers.
Edge-to-shape
Concept:
• Thanks to the powerful CNC the angle and the length
of the glass are measured by a laser system
• Glass is introduced by interpolation of Y and C axes
Measure angle
Measure length
Y
C
Edge-to-shape
90° squaring cycle concept
First step:
Processing of the first edge in order to get a good
reference (no need to correct the angle in this
phase)
Second step
Turn piece 90°and use the first edged side as
reference, correct the angle, edge the second one:
 Angle 1^2 goes 90°
Third step
Turn piece 90°and use the second edged side as
reference, correct the angle, edge the third one:
 Angle 2^3 goes 90°
Fourth step
Turn piece 90°and use the second edged side as
reference, correct the angle, edge the fourth one:
 Angles 1^2^3^4 go 90°
Edge-to-shape
Limits
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Glass can be processed in four cycles (four sides) provided that
the maximum removal is 5mm per step, otherwise it has to be
introduced more times
Glasses ha to be placed with a minimum distance of 100cm
between each other in order to allow all adjustments
Tolerances:
– 0,3mm/m on diagonals
– 0,5mm/m on final dimensions
– Maximum angle correction:
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 0°24’ with standard inlet
 0°17’ with 3200mm inlet
Edge-to-shape
What does angle correction 0°24’ or 0°17’ mean?
0°17’
0°24’
3mm
3mm
500mm
With standard inlet/outlet
765mm
With 3200mm inlet/outlet
Edge-to-shape
Advantages
• Possibility to perform processes that are typical for double
edging machines without incurring in high investments
in terms of capital and required space.
• Possibility to prepare glass sheets for other processing
phases on CNC work centers, limiting the further
processing time only to the drilling or milling phases.
• No set up time, so flexibility and convenience in using
it also for single pieces and small batches
• Possibility to process multiple glasses
simultaneously by job list up to 10 pieces in the same
time
ETS Job list
The operator inserts the dimensions of the glass
sheets to be processed in the job list and
processes the pieces.
Once finished, the CN displays the final obtained
dimension, in case of non conformity a red
number is shown.
In case of irregular shapes, the four
lengths are imputed
Possible options
Inlet or outlet module lenght
Conveyors module can be:
• Lengh
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Standard
Longer
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2000mm
3200mm
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+1000mm
• Height
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Standard
Higher
Independent motorization on inlet
Independent motorization allows
to stop the inlet conveyor for the
loading phase.
By a foot command operator can
start & stop conveyor with hands
free
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Safe loading operation
Possibility to load while machine ids
processing
ETS predisposition
With ETS predisposition, there are no ETS functions but
all mechanical ETS parts are already mounted.
It results cheaper when afterwards ETS would be
implemented as no parts has to be replaced.
Remote service
Remote service is a package consisting in:
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Hardware firewall for internet connection between Neptun
central service and the installed machine
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The price of the initial kit includes the first 12 month service
Free software upgrades: in case a new software release is
issued, Neptun provide it free of charge otherwise would be
charges (example ETS2 upgrade for non square would cost €
4.000)