Abstract: In a drive system of a forming press for driving the plunger with a crank mechanism controllable by a servomotor, the torques of the servomotors that are required to achieve a high pressure force for the plunger by means of intermediate gearing, preferably with a double gear transmission, to the cam or crank mechanism, wherein the symmetrically configured drive arms of multipoint presses for the right and the left pressure points of two-point presses or the pressure point groups of four-point presses are optionally mechanically synchronized with one another in such a way that each of the intermediate gears of the first or of one of the first gear transmissions is effectively connected to the others.

Abstract: A drive system of a forming press for driving the plunger with a crank mechanism controllable by a servomotor is refined in such a way that on the one hand a high pressure force is achievable with the available torques of servomotors and that on the other hand the technical complexity of the drive is reduced during the design of the drive with multiple mechanically synchronized pressure points and also with pressure points that can each be controlled independently of one another.