How to Read an
Amada Model Number

The number is a description, not a serial

Amada model numbers look arbitrary until you know the rule. They are not — they describe the machine. Once you can read one, you can tell a machine's tonnage and table size from the badge alone, and you can work out that two machines with different-looking numbers are in fact the same press.

The six-digit form: three pairs

A six-digit Amada number is three two-digit pairs — tonnage, then table width, then table length.

The short form everyone actually uses takes the leading digit of each pair. 3 0 · 4 0 · 5 0 becomes 345. That is the whole trick.

The short form

In a three-digit Amada number the first digit is the tonnage class and the other two are the table:

So a Coma 567 is a 50-ton machine with a 60 × 70 table, and its full designation is COMA-506070. A Pega 357 is 30 ton with a 50 × 70 table. The published tonnage is often a little above the class — a 30-ton machine may be rated 33 — but the class digit is what the number encodes.

Why this matters when you are buying parts or service

Because the same machine appears under two names. A press badged PEGA-304050 and one badged PEGA-345 are the same press. So are COMA-505072 and COMA-557. If you have searched for a manual or a parts list under one form and found nothing, try the other.

It also catches genuine mistakes. A PEGA-304040 is a 344, not a 244 — 30 ton, not 20 — and ordering parts on the wrong assumption wastes a shipment.

Letters after the number

Suffixes mark variants rather than dimensions. King and Queen denote uprated versions, generally with more or larger auto-index stations. A bracketed (W) marks a wet machine. NT, MII and M2 mark generational revisions on the newer EM and EMK lines.

These do not follow the numeric rule, and two machines sharing a number can differ substantially across a King or Queen suffix. If you are matching parts, the suffix matters as much as the number — send us the serial plate and we will confirm it.

Every model on this site, decoded

33 machines. Where a model has its own restoration page, the name links to it.

Where to find your number

Three places, in order of reliability:

• The serial plate — usually on the frame near the control. It carries the full designation and the serial number, which is what we actually need.
• The badge on the machine — typically the short form.
• The parts list or manual cover, if you have the paperwork. These almost always use the six-digit form, which is why the paperwork can look like it belongs to a different machine.