Workpiece And Applications
Versatile and Efficient Industrial Straightening Solutions
Custom Presses for Diverse Applications
MAE-Eitel combines over 70 years of experience with industry-leading technologies to create high-quality, dependable straightening presses trusted across the globe for consistently reliable precision. From cutting-edge automated straightening machinesthat seamlessly integrate into existing processes to durable manual presses for hands-on low-volume straightening, MAE-Eitel has the solution.
Workpieces and Applications
These powerful presses are customized to meet the unique needs of diverse customers across industries, providing rapid and precise results in a range of workpieces and applications. Each manual and automotive straightening machine by MAE-Eitel is designed for easy operation without extensive training, ensuring precision results even with limited access to highly skilled labor.
Shafts
Shafts are some of the most diverse and commonly straightened components across all industries. These complex parts often have asymmetrical design features and are long, slim, and hollow. MAE-Eitel combines decades of experience with state-of-the-art technologies to provide reliable straightening machines that produce consistently high-quality results in diverse industrial shafts without compromising critical operational features.
Results You Can Expect with MAE-Eitel Machines
- Precision Straightening for Complex Industrial Shafts—Any shaft that tolerates no compromises in accuracy is straightened to exact specifications regardless of complexity, including asymmetrical cross-sections, long narrow shafts for high-speed applications, hollow parts with special cross-sections and offsets, and torque-transmitting shafts.
- Non-Damaging Results for Sensitive Shafts—Sensitive straightening requirements, such as thin-walled and hollow shafts, press-fitted or overmolded shafts, hardened or non-ferrous materials, and shafts with stress concentration zones, are straightened without cracking, distortion, or surface damage during the process.
- Lasting Mechanical Integrity and Performance—High-performance, torque-transmitting shafts, including transmission, axle, turbine, and industrial gearbox shafts, demand consistently accurate gear teeth measurement and precision straightening. These prevent backlash, uneven wear, and mechanical inefficiencies, which is vital when reliability and performance are critical.
Tools & Standard Parts
Long, slim industrial tools and standard parts, often made from hardened or specialty materials, require precision straightening due to their slender geometry, functional sensitivity, and demanding applications. MAE-Eitel’s custom straightening presses are designed to ensure consistent accuracy in long and slim industrial parts and precision tooling, meeting tight tolerance requirements in some of the most challenging materials, including high-strength steels.
Results You Can Expect with MAE-Eitel Machines
- Precision Straightening for Critical Tooling Components—Maintaining tight tolerances to ensure repeatable precision straightening of critical tooling components that demand exact alignment to function reliably, such as broaches, boring bars, cutting tools, and ejector pins.
- Gentle Straightening for Sensitive Materials—Controlled, non-damaging forces preserve surface integrity and dimensional accuracy in parts susceptible to damage during processing, such as parts with intricate surface details in hardened steels and delicate non-ferrous alloys.
- Versatility and Flexibility to Scale—Adaptable equipment ensures dependable accuracy in a broad range of geometries and materials, from finely ground precision tooling with diameters as small as 3 mm to deep hole drills up to 30,000 mm long.
Cast & Forged Parts
Cast and forged parts are heavy-duty powerhouses known for their strength and durability, but thermal and mechanical stresses during production that often result in distortion. These parts demand precision straightening in complex three-dimensional geometries. MAE-Eitel presses are designed and built to withstand heavy-duty applications in harsh environments, continuously producing precision results in some of the industry’s most challenging and complex cast and forged parts.
Results You Can Expect with MAE-Eitel Machines
- Reliable Accuracy in Challenging Geometries—Precise straightening forces restore dimensional accuracy in irregular and heavy-duty cast and forged parts that demand tight tolerances within complex shapes, varying wall thicknesses, and hard-to-reach features.
- Gentle, Controlled Correction for Tough Materials—Controlled and non-destructive force preserves the structural integrity of forged and cast parts susceptible to internal stress concentrations, particularly in materials like nodular cast iron, alloyed steels, and high-strength aluminum.
- Dependable Performance in Harsh Environments—Each MAE-Eitel straightening machine is designed to continually produce precision results in brutal industrial environments, ensuring efficiency and lasting accuracy in small-batch and high-throughput production requirements.
Profiles & Semi-Finished Products
Semi-finished products and profiles, including aluminum extrusions, rolled steel sections, and structural shapes, must be within straightness tolerances to ensure proper fit and function downstream. However, they often become distorted during forming, cooling, and handling. MAE-Eitel straightening presses are engineered to reliably straighten profiles to exact specifications without damaging surfaces.
Results You Can Expect with MAE-Eitel Machines
- Consistent Accuracy for Linear and Asymmetrical Profiles—Reliably straighten complex profiles such as T-sections, U-profiles, and custom extrusions with consistently accurate results, even when dealing with variable wall thicknesses, contours, and non-standard shapes.
- Controlled Correction for Sensitive Cross-Sections—Carefully controlled forces gently straighten profiles with thin walls, delicate edges, and functional surface finishes, ensuring accurate alignment while protecting mechanical and surface properties.
- Adaptability to Scale, Part Geometries, and Material Variability—From adaptable force control that accounts for material variability to the flexibility to handle complex extrusions of all lengths, weights, and materials, MAE-Eitel machines offer the versatility to adjust to your exact straightening needs.
Tubes & Pipes
The same properties that make tubes, pipes, and other hollow components essential across industries also make them vulnerable to distortion during manufacturing and challenging to straighten. Thin walls, long lengths, and soft materials must be carefully straightened to prevent buckling or collapse. MAE-Eitel straightening machines are built to meet these challenges with reliable consistency and precision.
Results You Can Expect with MAE-Eitel Machines
- Tight-Tolerance Straightening for Hollow and Thin-Walled Parts—Controlled and uniform pressure maintains cross-sectional integrity while achieving precision results without deformations in pressure-sensitive, thin-walled, hollow, and long parts.
- Safe Handling of Delicate and Ductile Materials—Non-damaging straightening processes minimize the risk of collapse, cracking, or surface damage, ensuring reliable precision in pressure-sensitive materials and ultra-thin-walled tubes and pipes.
- Reliable Performance Across All Materials and Specifications—From heavy-duty carbon steel tubes to high-precision small-diameter copper pipes, MAE-Eitel’s equipment is engineered to adapt to varying material properties and dimensions.
Welded Parts
Assemblies such as shift forks, subframes, and chassis components are especially prone to warping or twisting at welded joints. The welding process also introduces stressors that can distort and significantly alter the form and alignment of precision parts. These complex components with variable stiffness profiles require straightening in multiple spatial directions. MAE-Eitel’s advanced straightening presses are specifically engineered to handle these complex geometries with precision and repeatability.
Results You Can Expect with MAE-Eitel Machines
- Multi-Axis Correction for Warped Welded Assemblies—Multidimensional straightening capabilities efficiently restore form and function to welded parts where heat-affected zones disrupt material symmetry, ensuring proper fit, assembly, and performance.
- Controlled Force Application for Heat-Affected Zones—Carefully regulated straightening forces compensate for hardness variations caused by the welding process, delivering precision results while protecting weld integrity in hardened, softened, and stress-prone areas.
- Customizable Solutions for Complex Jointed Geometries—Modular design, custom tooling, and adaptive control provide cost-effective custom straightening systems built to accommodate unique part specifications while ensuring accuracy, durability, and efficiency.
Workpieces and Applications
These powerful presses are customized to meet the unique needs of diverse customers across industries, providing rapid and precise results in a range of workpieces and applications.
MAE-Eitel offers dependable straightening machines that can produce repeat precision in a variety of industrial shafts without sacrificing essential operational features. These machines combine cutting-edge technologies with decades of experience.
The custom straightening presses at MAE-Eitel are designed to ensure optimal precision in long and slim standard parts and tools, such as tight tolerance drills and deep-hole pipes.
MAE-Eitel presses have built a reputation for reliability, durability, and accuracy in straightening some of the industry’s most challenging and complex forged parts.
Semi-finished products and profiles often demand extreme accuracy for optimal performance, and the presses at MAE-Eitel are designed to provide reliable precision across all production volumes.
MAE-Eitel has developed high-quality, durable machines capable of repeatedly achieving precision results for tight tolerance precision in hollow pipes and stainless steel tubes.
MAE-Eitel produces reliable equipment with the advanced straightening capabilities required for the complex needs of welded parts.
MAE-Eitel’s wheelset presses are customizable to fit the rail industry's diverse needs and are tailored to our clients' specific requirements, ensuring reliable performance in any setting.
Wheelsets
Wheelset assembly and disassembly in the rail industry demands power, precision, and flexibility, particularly with bulky, heavy-duty components such as axles, wheels, gearboxes, and brake discs. MAE-Eitel’s wheelset presses are customizable to fit the diverse needs of the rail industry. They are tailored to the specific requirements of our clients, ensuring repeatable accuracy, safe handling, and reliable performance for everything from light rail to high-speed trains.
Results You Can Expect with MAE-Eitel Machines
- Precision Assembly & Disassembly of Complex Wheelsets—Exact positioning and controlled pressing forces up to 6,300 kN deliver reliable alignment while ensuring component integrity and long-term performance across all rail applications.
- Robust Design for Heavy-Duty Rail Applications—MAE-Eitel wheelset presses feature advanced automation, enhanced structural stability, and horizontal double-cylinder systems that deliver repeatable precision results for large wheelsets while ensuring operator safety.
- Adaptability for Diverse Rail System Needs—Designed for customization, each wheelset press offers configurable pressing methods, seat options, fixed-stop and free-positioning capabilities, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of rail standards and component designs.
Comprehensive Customer
Service Solutions
At MAE-Eitel, customer satisfaction is paramount to everything they do. They proudly maintain extensive customer solutions overseen by highly responsive customer service professionals with a track record of exceeding expectations. From retrofits and conversions to setting up new workpiece types and ongoing maintenance and repairs, MAE-Eitel’s complete customer service solutions ensure longevity and precision.
MAE-Eitel Straightens It Out
For more than 70 years, MAE-Eitel has combined German engineering with American-made pride to create custom industrial straightening equipment for a vast range of workpieces and applications. To learn more, please contact the experts at MAE-Eitel today!