Patent ID: 7926317

Claim:
A press machine that performs an oscillation process which includes alternately repeating a drive-in operation which causes a punching mold to drive a workpiece into a die mold by lowering a slide, and a return operation which returns the punching mold upward by raising the slide, the press machine comprising: an actuator which raises and lowers the slide; a motion datum receiving module through which, by an input operation, an operator inputs a motion datum including, as input items, a height position at which the slide starts the oscillation process, a height position at which the slide ends the oscillation process, a speed at which the slide carries out the oscillation process, a lowered amount of the slide during the drive-in operation, and a raised amount of the slide during the return operation; a motion pattern generator which generates a motion pattern of the slide on the basis of the motion datum inputted through the motion datum receiving module; and an actuator controlling module which controls the actuator on the basis of the motion pattern generated by the motion pattern generator.