The XL200CL DA implements stitching by omitting shears. It leaves out shear operations to join smaller parts into larger ones. However, to support features like intelligent die positioning it has always still required the die to go through its cycle. It just did not fire the press. This required that the material speed slow down enough for the die to still complete its cycle.

Recently a customer a customer encountered this. They have an extreme case where they switched from running 10 foot parts down to 1 foot parts. We decided to attempt an improvement. The die will no longer cycle if the press is not going to fire. It will do a normal die return so that the die will be positioned, based on the current line speed, for when parts begin to be sheared normally. If the line speed is not changing the die will appear to remain stationary during each of these returns.