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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.
An efficient press brake is fundamental to avoiding damages and detecting failures. Keeping press brake clean and tidy is simple but important. It should be done the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly.
Why does press brake leak oil?
What should you do for oil of press brake?
What is the role of oil of press brake?
The sealing ring is not suitable for the conditions of using press brake. The O-shaped rubber seals often used in press brake must be selected according to the operating conditions and working conditions. Under oil lubrication conditions, the hardness of the oil-resistant rubber O-ring seal can be low hardness when the oil pressure is less than 2.9MPa. When the oil pressure is 2.9 to 4.9MPa, medium hardness should be selected. When the oil pressure is 4.9 to 7.8MPa, select high hardness.
There is no design seal or unreasonable seal structure. The screw hole on the body of the press brake is designed as a through hole with no sealing measure. The press brake cover is not designed with a gasket. The clearance between the shaft and the body hole is too large. The interference between the sealing ring and the shaft does not meet the requirements. The design of sealing groove is unreasonable.
Oil leakage can be caused by casting defects and parts damage. The castings of the press brake have defects such as blisters, pores, cracks, and loose tissues. When the oil pipes and pipe joints of the press brake are made of plastic or oil-resistant rubber, the materials will age to become hard and brittle after long-term use. The moving parts will lose the sealing performance due to friction and wear. If the gap between the shaft and the shaft hole increases, it will also cause oil leakage.
Before maintaining or cleaning, the upper mold should be aligned with the lower mold. Shut down until the work is completed. If you need to start press brake, select the manual mode to ensure safety.
Check the oil level of the oil tank every week, even after the hydraulic system is repaired. If the oil level is lower, add hydraulic oil. The oil should be changed after 2000 hours of operating new press brake. Afterwards, the oil should be changed after 4000 to 6000 hours of operating press brake. The oil tank should be cleaned every time before changing the oil. The oil temperature of the press brake should be between 35℃ and 60℃ that is not exceed 70℃. Otherwise, it will cause deterioration and damage of the oil quality and accessories.
The filter of press brake should be replaced or thoroughly cleaned every time if the oil is changed. If the press brake has filter abnormalities such as unclean oil, the filter should be replaced. The air filter on the fuel tank should be inspected and cleaned every 3 months and replace every year.
After using the new press brake for one month, check whether the bending of each oil pipe is deformed. After two months of use, all fittings should be tightened.
The oil of the press brake plays the role of transmission, wear resistance, system lubrication, anti-corrosion, rust prevention, and cooling in the hydraulic system. It belongs to the industrial hydraulic system. The hydraulic oil itself is constantly changing in use. However, it is difficult to completely solve the problem of hydraulic oil pollution.
Serious oil pollution will directly affect the performance of the press brake. It will cause frequent failures of the brake system and shorten the lifespan of press brake.
The main reason is the particles in the dust. As far as hydraulic components are concerned, these solid particles entering the components will increase the wear of the sliding parts. In addition, it may block the orifice, the orifice in the hydraulic component, or the spool stuck, causing the hydraulic system to malfunction.
The mixing of water and air reduces the lubrication of hydraulic oil, accelerating the oxidation of hydraulic oil and producing cavitation corrosion.
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The overall usage of CNC press brake is extensive. Many industries make use the CNC press brakes for many different applications and purposes. Meanwhile, constant innovation has pushed the CNC press brake forward and allowed their uses to expand across multiple avenues where there was not a demand previously.
What are the advantages of CNC press brake?
What is the proper CNC press brake setup procedures?
What are the uses of CNC press brake?
The main cylinders on both sides of the CNC press brake synchronously adopt a hydraulic control system and a grating ruler to form a closed-loop control, which is independently restricted by CNC. Accurate feedback data ensures safe operation of the slider.
The CNC press brake has high strength and good rigidity. It is stable and reliable with high precision. Backgauge distance and slider stroke adopt electric and manual fine adjustment. CNC press brake is equipped with a digital display device, which is convenient and quick to use.
The CNC press brake has a multi-step programming function, which can realize automatic operation, continuous positioning, and automatic and precise adjustment. The processing of CNC press brake shows real-time display and can remember the position and parameters after power failure.
The backgauge adopts imported ball screw and linear guide to ensure the positioning accuracy.
The CNC press brake uses a servo motor as an actuator. When the bending operation is not performed, the motor does not move and consume power. Therefore, CNC press brake is a product that meets the energy saving requirements. The servo motor has a higher degree of controllability so that it can be well adapted to the production needs of the modern industry.
The efficiency and the profitability of a CNC press brake are measured by the number of completed and correct parts produced in a given period of time.
Operators need to know CNC press brake completely. They also should know material type, thickness, flange dimensions and tolerances, angles and angle tolerances, and inside radius of angles.
The choice of tool is based on the drawing. Air bending, bottom bending, and coining are available. Select the tool that is at least as accurate as the specified type.
Tonnage charts are available for air bending. For bottom bending, a good tonnage may be four times than that of the air bending. Coining requires eight times the air bend tonnage.
If you have two or more CNC press brakes, make sure to choose the best-suited one. Remember that air bending cannot overload a CNC press brake.
Determine tooling position on the bench. If the tonnage requirement exceeds the concentrated load limit in the center of the CNC press brake, it can be off-center.
Install the tooling and align the upper and lower.
CNC press brake should be programmed properly, which is very quick.
Bend materials only after completing a good test bend. If something wrong, correct the program until a good part has been formed.
It’s time to run CNC press brake.
Medical fields are assisted by CNC press brakes in the manufacturing and production of high-tech and crucial equipment, such as X-ray machines, components to emergency vehicles, and the actual construction of hospitals.
Military and defense industries employ CNC press brakes to design and craft components to weapons, vehicles, and other significant equipment. The military industry is one of the most invested by the advanced machines. The usage of CNC press brake speeds up the processes of building and testing new equipment.
The usage and importance of CNC press brakes cannot be understated. Without these machines, precise crafting would not be as widely possible and instituted as it is today. The CNC machine industry has always been at the forefront of innovative design to expand further outside industries.
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The shearing machine cuts sheet metal, plates, bars, and tubing of various cross-section into pieces by subjecting to shear force. It typically uses a punch and a die, which may be of any shape that is similar to a pair of scissors. Both the shearing machine and the laser cutting machine can shear the plate.
What is the difference between shearing machine and laser cutting machine?
What is the difference between gate-type and swing-type plate shearing machine?
Which shearing machine can be viewed as high quality?
Laser cutting machine is a piece of blanking equipment, which can cut boards of any shape, including straight, line and curve, holes and complex geometric figures. The laser cutting machine uses a focused high-power density laser beam to irradiate the workpiece to quickly melt, vaporize, ablate or reach the ignition point of the irradiated material. At the same time, the molten material is blown away by the coaxial high-speed airflow of the beam to cut workpiece. The incision of laser cutting machine is high but small without burrs. The cutting speed is based on the thickness of the steel and the power of the laser.
Shearing machine is a straight-line machine, which is mainly used to cut the straight edge of various sizes of metal plates. Although shearing machines are also blanking equipment, they perform simple shape cutting. Shearing machine is widely used in various industrial sectors such as steel rolling, automobiles, ships, tractors, bridges, airplanes, electrical appliances, instruments, boilers, and pressure vessels. The steel plate cut by the shearing machine has low degree, large cut and high roughness with burrs at a slow cutting speed. The cutting quality decreases more according to the thickness of the material.
The guillotine shearing machine is used in industries such as automobiles, tractors, rolling stock, ships, motors, and instruments. It is also suitable for stretching work of various high-strength alloy plates. The guillotine shearing machine adopts an integral welded-frame structure and has vibration treatment so that is has good rigidity, high precision and good precision retention. A three-point supporting shaft rolling guide rail is adopted that the upper tool holder rolls between the rolling guide rails without gap. The lifespan is determined by turning the hand wheel. The movable blade base and the four-edged long blade are convenient to adjust the uniformity of the blade gap, improving the cutting quality and extending the lifespan. The guillotine shearing machine uses tandem cylinder synchronization system with even force. By adjusting the flow rate of the tandem cylinders, the shearing angle can be easily to meet the needs of different shear plate thicknesses.
The swing-type plate shearing machine is used in the stretching, bending, extrusion, forming and other processes of metal sheets in the power industry and aviation industries. Compared with guillotine shearing machine, swing-type plate shearing machine mostly adopts oblique-blade, which is widely used due to simple structure, low failure rate, and high efficiency. As the tool holder rotates, the shearing angle and gap will change.
Relying on the guide rail, the shearing machine can realize intelligent movement. The cutting length and thickness are not limited by the size of the shearing machine. Even the guide rail can be lengthened as needed.
The shearing machine replaces manual feeding and adopts heavy-duty robots, which can load 5 tons at a time. It saves manpower and effectively avoids safety accidents.
The shearing machine has zero loss during the cutting process. The feeding platform can automatically flip the steel plate. In addition to eliminating manual operations, it also avoids the material waste caused by the long steel plate. During the operation, no pollutants are generated.
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