BENDING AUTOMATION

Moving from job to job with complicated set-ups greatly influences productivity. Many people are involved in the bending process in determining part specifications, planning the process, and setting up machines. Furthermore, the same manpower is required each time process is repeated. With this in mind it is easy to see how the bending process includes too much wasted time.

Amada provides a solution to improving the largest time consumer in the manufacturing process, the bending operation. By linking process planning in the office to sheet metal production on the floor, efficiencies can be greatly improved. CAD data from product designs can be utilized directly to automatically generate CAM data in a short time. Until now, automating the bending process was the most difficult aspect of bending. Now, the ASTRO 100NT bending robot system can be operated easily by anyone, enabling productivity to increase.

ASTRO CAM II programming software is the first of its kind available in the world. Teaching robot positions is no longer necessary, and automatic bending can be achieved without increasing set-up times. Setting up repeat jobs is even faster by recalling a complete set of data from the SDD server. Controlling product flow and delivery time becomes reliable and predictable with automation. Scheduling capabilities allow unmanned operation time to significantly increase. Changing product quantities and jobs is also possible during scheduled operations. The advantage of the ASTRO 100NT are unparalleled, with performance that enables you to manufacture products at low cost and at a high level of consistency.

Products: [Astro 100NT] [Astro 100NT Cell]

 

The TBZ panel bender is a landmark automatic bending system completely different in concept from any conventional system. Simplified programming enables the system to check the profile of the fabricated part as well as any interface. User modifications to the program may also be performed prior to processing. The system is designed to provide bending from 180 to 45 degrees upward and downward, as well as hemming and radius bending. The TBZ processes new products without losing time for setup or warm up operations. Since it requires no hydraulic oil, the TBZ maintains a clean work environment. With Integrated automation, the TBZ is ideally suited to increase productivity while reducing costs in a variety of shop processing methods. The system may also be expanded and integrated with other line-spec Amada equipment.

Products: [TBZ 2523H]