PressWorks Ink, a subsidiary of Swift Communications, has
contracted DCOS Automation Sweden for a complete drives and controls retrofit
on its DGM 440 press. PressWorks Ink prints the Carson City Nevada Appeal and
the Reno Gazette-Journal along with several other weekly, monthly, tabloid and
specialty products.
DCOS will replace the existing six Eurotherm
drives with new digital drives. The existing DGM consoles will be replaced with
new DCOS consoles that integrate all press functions, ink presetting and remote
inking control, dampening, splicers and infeeds to new touchscreen control. The
existing fiber optic loop will be replaced with a new EtherCat star-network
with direct communication to each drive.
The drives and controls are supported by DCOS
24/7 remote support, DCOS says.
DCOS will also assist in the scavenging of
useful spare parts from the old Eurotherm drives and DGM console to be used at
another Swift Communications site.
While DCOS has a history of drives and
controls retrofits in Europe on nearly all types of newspaper presses, this is
the most extensive drives and controls project so far in the U.S., according to
the company. The installation will begin in September 2019.
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