Automatic die driving amount correction method

Abstract

According to data from an NC device 10, a processing factor specifying section 13 specifies processing factors having effect on the bending angle. A tolerance setting section 14 sets a tolerance for each specified processing factor and a bend grouping section 15 classifies bends into groups using the tolerances. Then, a correcting condition setting section 16 establishes correcting conditions and a correction data computing section 17 computes correction data for depth according to data representative of the actual depth of an acceptable bend so as to meet the correcting conditions. Based on the correction data, a process data modifying section 18 modifies data representative of the processes of a bending operation. In this way, depth for a bend the angle of which has not been measured can be corrected based on the correction value for depth for another bend the angle of which has been measured.

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