This document specifies technical requirements and measures for testing procedures for evaluation of energy required to be adopted by persons undertaking the design, manufacture and supply of metal forming and laser processing machine tools in order to achieve reproducible data about the energy supplied under specified conditions. Furthermore, it provides methods for quantifying the energy supplied to components in order to assign their share to generalized machine tool functions as described in ISO 14955-1.

Along with ISO 14955-1 and ISO 14955-2, it covers all significant energy requirements relevant to hydraulic (servo) and mechanical (servo) presses, turret punch presses and press brakes, pipe benders, laser processing machine tools, when they are used as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer. Examples of how to perform energy evaluation on metal-forming machine tools are given in the annexes.

This document is applicable to machine tools which transmit force mechanically or transmit energy by laser light to cut, form, or work metal or other materials by means of dies attached to or operated by slides, punches or beams as well as to lasers ranging in size from small high speed machine tools producing small work-pieces to large relatively slow speed machine tools and large work-pieces. This document covers machine tools whose primary intended use is to work metal, but which can be used in the same way to work other materials (e.g. cardboard, plastic, rubber, leather, etc.).

It also applies to auxiliary devices supplied as an integral part of the machine tool and to machine tools which are part of an integrated manufacturing system where the energy required is comparable to those of machine tools working separately.

Cross References:
ISO 14955-2:2018
ISO 14955-1
ISO 16092-1:2017
EN 10027-2:2015
EN 10027-1:2005
EN 12622:2009
JIS G3101:2010
JIS G3141:2005
IEC 60204-1:2014


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