TECHNOLOGY BRIEFS
LVD releases robotic bending machine
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LVD has introduced a new product Ulti-Form - a new
robotic bending system featuring an automated tool
changing press brake.
Ulti-Form follows the success of LVD’s Dyna-Cell
robotic bending cell and takes automated bending
technology a step further by incorporating an automated
tool changing press brake to keep bending productivity at
its peak, handling both small batches and long production
runs effi ciently with minimal changeover time. Ulti-Form
delivers high productivity bending with unattended
operation.
Ulti-Form features a 135-ton press brake designed
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using the ToolCell platform, LVD’s top-rated automated
tool changing press brake, integrated with an industrial
robot. The press brake houses a built-in tooling
warehouse and uses a gripper mechanism in the
machine’s backgauge fi ngers to quickly and effi ciently
change tools.
The press brake and robot work together in synergy
to keep changeover time to a minimum. As the robot picks
the fi rst workpiece from the input stack and centers it,
the press brake completes the tool change. Ulti-Form
handles parts from 50 x 100 mm up to 1200 x 800 mm
weighing up to 15 kg.
Ulti-Form is automation that’s easy to use with
a fast “art to part” process thanks to LVD’s powerful
programming wizard. Programming of both the press
brake and robot is handled offl ine and no robot teaching
is required. CADMAN®-B software automatically
calculates the optimal bend program.
The robot software imports all bending data and
automatically calculates all gripper positions taking into
account the gripper force, collision detection and robot
reachability. It generates the fastest collision-free path
for the robot across the complete bending operation.
The system’s database contains all the setup information
needed for the press brake and robot so that Ulti-Form is
quickly readied for production.
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Siemens is expanding its off er for industrial IoT solutions,
adding to its Industrial Edge portfolio a central and
company-wide scalable infrastructure for managing
connected edge devices and apps.
With the new ‘Industrial Edge Management’ system,
users can remotely monitor the status of every connected
device and remotely install edge apps and software
functions on distributed edge devices.
In combination with existing hardware and software
products, this Industrial Edge V1.0 open platform provides
users with a ready-to-use and seamless solution for data
processing on the production level with integrated device
and app lifecycle management.
With the new Industrial Edge Management system,
distributed edge devices and their states can be monitored
centrally, diagnosed, and managed by IT administrators and
manufacturing engineers.
This means that new software
apps can be rolled out companywide
and securely on all connected
Industrial Edge devices. Central
software management minimizes
or even completely eliminates the
eff ort involved in maintenance and
updates for distributed software
instances.
Existing, already containerised
software (Docker) can be used
applied to Industrial Edge. In
addition, users can always
develop their own edge apps
to meet company-specifi c
requirements.
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