If a press punches too close together it can damage press tooling and it is inefficient time wise. Sometimes customers program patterns with overlapping punches that span the trailing edge of one part and the leading edge of the next part so that the first and last parts will both get all of their holes. We detect the redundant press hits in the middle and remove the duplicates. Press hits, with gags are OR'd together to become one press hit with the gags of both operations.

SCN 2585 changed the threshold of +- one encoder count to be equal to the part tolerance. However, this can result in holes that can be as much as two times the tolerance out of spec. In addition, the change was made for one customer for a problem we were unable to duplicate.

We have added a new setup called "Punch Combination Tolerance". This provides independent control over how close targets can be before they are OR'd together.

For now it will be available on controllers that are configured with Gags. When unavailable the tolerance will be the equivalent distance of 1 encoder count, which reverts it back to the original tolerance prior to SCN 2585.