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Tool Cell Inspired Design
Ulti-Form's 135-ton bending machine is designed on the ToolCell platform, LZK's most acclaimed automatic tool change bending machine, and is integrated with industrial robots. The bending machine has a built-in tool warehouse and uses a clamping mechanism in the machine's rear stopper fingers to change tools quickly and efficiently. The bending machine and robot work in tandem to minimize changeover time. The bender completes the tool change when the robot picks up the first part from the input stack and centers it. Ulti-Form can handle parts from 50 x 100 mm to 1200 x 800 mm and weigh up to 25 kg.
No Robotics Instruction
Thanks to LZK's powerful programming wizard, Ulti-Form is an easy-to-use automation with a fast "art-to-part" process. Both bending machine and robot programming are handled offline, with no robot tutorials required. CADMAN®-B software automatically calculates the optimal bending program. The robot software imports all bending data and automatically calculates all fixture positions, taking into account fixture forces, collision detection and robot accessibility. It generates the fastest collision-free path for the robot throughout the bending operation. The system's database contains all the setup information needed for the bending machine and robot so Ulti-Form is quickly ready for production.
Adaptive Gripper
The Ulti-Form robot gripper is an adaptive design designed by LZK (patent pending). It has the flexibility to adapt to multiple part geometries and automatically adjusts to the size of the part. This allows a range of different part geometries to be handled without the need to change grippers, thus keeping production continuous and uninterrupted.
Quality Assurance
Ulti-Form is equipped with LZK's Easy-Form® Laser Adaptive Bending System, which provides automation with quality assurance. Real-time in-line adaptive bending technology adds advanced process stability to robotic bending machine bending. The Easy-Form laser system adapts to material variations, including sheet thickness, strain hardening and grain direction, automatically compensating for any changes to ensure consistently accurate bending results.
Automation Today
Ulti-Form is a modern, automated bending system. Its efficiently organized layout has a footprint of only 8 x 10 meters. The system includes three input pallets, a large output area and small part placement area, an automatic pallet dispenser and transfer system for transferring complete pallets out of the system.
Ulti-Form is designed for flexibility and can be run automatically or in manual mode. Manual operation can be used for very complex parts and small batches; automated production of long series.
Ulti-Form is flexible, efficient and easy to program and operate, providing a fast return on investment.
The CNC press brake is primarily a machine tool that is utilized for bending a metal sheet or plate into a shape determined by its die set. CNC press brake plays a very important role in sheet metal manufacturing.
How to perform CNC press brake?
How to adjust the gap between blades of CNC press brake?
What should be considered when using CNC press brake?
Close the rear protective door of the CNC press brake. Turn on the power. Turn on the switch on the control panel of CNC press brake. Then, start the oil pump. The CNC press brake does not operate at this time. Release all emergency stop switches.
Adjust stroke. Pay attention to adjusting the stroke when using it. You must test it before bending. There must be a gap of plate thickness when its upper die descends to the bottom. Otherwise, it will cause damage to the CNC press brake. The adjustment of the stroke also has electric quick adjustment.
For the selection of bending notches for CNC press brake, a notch with a width of 8 times the thickness of the plate should generally be selected.
Backgauge adjustment generally has electric quick adjustment and manual fine adjustment, which is the same as the shearing machine.
Press down the blue "reset" button on the pedal and the "reset rearguard" button on the electric box, ensuring that the two blue reset indicator lights are off.
Turn the function forwarding switch to the "auto" position and press the motor start button after the controller self-test is over.
The CNC press brake finds the reference point and loads the corresponding bending program. Ensure that the mold installed in the CNC press brake is consistent with the programmed mold. Ensure that the sheet material is consistent with the programming page.
Remove the lower blade of CNC press brake and clean it piece by piece. Select one side to install tightly. Check the straightness of the blade in the horizontal and vertical directions.
Remove the upper blade of CNC press brake and clean it piece by piece. Then, the operation is same with that of the lower blade.
The upper blade is fixed. We adjust the blade gap by adjusting the lower blade.
The left and right screws of the lower blade increase the clearance. Loosen the four bolts on the table of the lower blade.
Manually turn the upper blade down to the proper position. The operator adjusts at the blanking area of the CNC press brake.
Use a feeler gauge to roughly adjust to 0.5mm from the unoccupied part of the upper and lower blades.
Manually turn the blade to the middle position and adjust it to 0.5mm.
Manually turn the blade up to the right position where the upper and lower blades are not disengaged. The middle position is roughly adjusted to 0.5mm.
Manually turn the upper blade to the proper position and start fine adjustment.
Before working, you must check the surrounding area of CNC press brake for any objects that may cause harm to it. Make sure the surroundings are clean, especially backgauge. Check the position of the oil mark in the oil tank. Check the hydraulic part for leaks.
The CNC press brake should be operated by professors. The operators must wear the corresponding labor protection supplies.
After turning on the power switch of the CNC press brake, do not start the oil pump immediately. Start the oil pump only after the computer screen displays normal.
After starting the CNC press brake, run it for 2 to 3 minutes without anything. Run the slide block at full stroke for 2 to 3 times. Check the motor and CNC press brake for noise. If the temperature is low, the oil tank and oil circuit must be preheated.
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LZK CNC Machine Tool(Anhui) Manufacturing Co.,Ltd (LZK) today is placed as a professional leading manufacturer and global supplier of sheet metal working machinery. The company was founded in Oct. 1990, starting manufacturing from 1988, it is a high technique corporation and locates in National spark technology compact district area—-Bowang industry area, 20KM away to the Lukou International Airport of Nanjing and 50KM away to the Nanjing Nan train station with convenient transportation.
The company ‘s registered capital is around USD 300,000.00, occupy 12,000.00 square meters with a production workshop of 8,800.00 square meters, making it one of Chinese largest facility for professional sheet metal fabrication machinery. The total workforce at LZK is currently numbered at 80 employees and is composed of highly trained and qualified machine operators and assembly technicians supported LZK products are manufactured with the Chinese AAA level good standardization and accredited for the ISO 9001:2008 and CE Certification is optional. In the past years LZK has progressed to become a major exporter of sheet metal machineries to the world markets with customers located in all the machine tools consuming countries.
LZK currently has representative offices in more than 60 countries and regions through designated distributors. Here, with its long and strong engineering experience, LZK hopes to become a quality-conscious, professional mechanical manufacturing company that serves the industry
The CNC press brake is composed of a bracket, a workbench and a clamping plate. The gravitational force is generated by energizing the coil to the pressure plate, completing the support for the thin plate between the pressure plate and the base. Because of the electromagnetic clamping method, CNC press brake can bend the plate according to the specific requirements.
What is the structure of CNC press brake?
What materials can be bent by CNC press brake?
What affects the deflection of CNC press brake?
CNC press brake adopts hydraulic transmission and mechanical block. The cylinder is fixed on CNC press brake, while the piston rod is fixedly moved by hydraulic pressure. The mechanical block is used that the adjustment value is controlled by the environmental protection system.
Workbench of CNC press brake is designed by a button box. The retained intercepting material rack moves forward, whose distance is controlled by the control system. The minimum valve is about 0.01mm, which is limited by switch positioning of the front and rear position.
CNC press brake consists of a mechanical synchronization mechanism, which is composed of torsion shaft, swing arm, and joint motion. CNC press brake has simple structure, stable and reliable performance, and high synchronization accuracy. The mechanical stop is controlled by the motor to control the value of the system.
Material stopper mechanism used in CNC press brake is driven by a motor. The two screw rods move synchronously through chain operation.
The most commonly used carbon tool steels in CNC press brake are T8A and T10A. They are good at processing at low price. However, the harden ability and red hardness are poor. The heat treatment deformation is large with low bearing capacity.
As another common materials used in CNC press brake, low-alloy tool steel is based on carbon tool steel with an appropriate amount of alloying elements. It reduces the tendency of quenching deformation and cracking, improving the harden ability of steel. It has better wear resistance.
High carbon and high chromium tool steel
High carbon and high chromium tool steels are another important material used in CNC press brake. They have good harden ability and high wear resistance. The heat treatment deformation is very small. CNC press brake die steel is second only to high-speed steel in carrying capacity. However, the segregation of carbides is serious, which has to upset and forge again to reduce the unevenness of carbides.
Two working cylinders of CNC press brake are pressurized at both ends of the slider. The resultant force of the deformation of the workpiece is in the middle, so the worktable of the sliding block of CNC press brake will be flexed and deformed together with the upper and lower molds.
The sheet material will receive uneven force at various points along the length of the die edge, which directly affects the accuracy and straightness of the bent workpiece. To make up for this shortcoming of CNC press brake, a deflection compensation device can be installed.
Preset a deformation amount opposite to the force deformation direction between the press brake slider and the upper die. The amount of deformation is the same as the relative amount of deformation during actual work. The relative deformation of the slider and the worktable is compensated so that the pressure distribution between the dies is more uniform. CNC press brake improves the quality of sheet metal bending.
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