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FastBend, a breakthrough technological development from Finn Power, has turned a long day’s manual handling, trial and error and materials wastage into a hands-free, instant turnaround of accurately bent components ready for market.

It is the first time industry worldwide world has the option of phasing out a collection of bending machines and press brakes and replacing it with just one unit.

The unit makes prototyping a super-efficient business asset, near eliminates human involvement from start to finish, and ensures a myriad of small batch runs become a profitable no-brainer.

Everything is automated through powerful software, particularly the hitherto cumbersome issue of tool changing and setting and the near-elimination of operator involvement qualifies the unit as a huge OH&S gain

The product’s exclusive distributor in Australia and New Zealand, Maxitec, has even put through it a complicated complicated bending assignment – involving five parts each of which embodied various folds including hemming and radius bends - through the machine in less than 10 minutes – a process that would take an entire day on press brakes and automated folders.

The company’s Managing Director, Mr Ingo Bentrup, says FastBend fills the  troublesome void between press brakes and the fully automated panel folding machines – a new, third option which the market has never contemplated would be any more than a dream.

“Cost effective bending of complex sheet metal parts in small batches has for a long time been considered the “holy grail” of the sheet metal manufacturing due to its perceived impossibility,” said Mr Bentrup.

“ Sure, these days we have press brakes that are technically very advanced, easy to set up and to operate but they still require a high level of skill on the part of the operator and constant time consuming tool changes with variation to material thickness and profile shape.

“Operators that do acquire the skills find the process boring, unrewarding and seldom endure that job for long.

“On the other hand, we have fully automatic folding machines but these are expensive, take up a large area of floor space and need to be kept operating for at least two shifts per day before an acceptable return on investment can be realised.

“FastBend is a world-first, an innovative ‘third option’ which in a lot of cases would make a multi-machine setup obsolete; a fact we haven’t ignored and a primary reason why we are set up to oversee that our current and future clients make a seamless and profitable transition into this new manufacturing sphere. ”

With a servo electric motor (with air cooling) there are very low maintenance costs, no influence by thermal conditions, excellent component quality and high reliability.

An easy and intuitive programmability allows very fast production, operation independently from operator skill and contains an auto learning program.

There is also a reduced factory impact including lower tooling cost, favourable energy-saving, minimum noise and vibrations, very compact layout and easy installation without requiring any foundation.

FastBend is extremely suitable for the small quantity runs and very urgent prototype requests.

At the  start of a job sequence, scanning a component barcode initiates the following sequence of events:

1. The bending program is loaded into memory and set as the active job.
2. The tooling consideration is read by the machine and tool is automatically set accordingly
3. Part locating pins are set ready to reference the part

The only operator skill required is the ability to use the barcode scanner and position the work piece on reference pins.

FastBend needs hardly any manual intervention. It can be placed against a wall in confined spaces as operators only need to access it from the front. It uses just 6kW of power on an average daily duty cycle.

FastBend capabilities include positive/negative inversion, smashing and radius bend and several other typical profiles; only the loading, rotation and unloading are manual.

The result is bending quality, fast production and elimination of human error. With options ATC (automatic tool change) and barcode reader the machine makes setup automatic and activates a new part program.

Clear and logical screen instructions further facilitate speed up operation and support fast self-learning. 
 
FastBend requires no foundation and is very fast and easy to install. Average energy consumption is similar to a press brake and with its compact layout the machine offers a reduced impact on the manufacturing environment.

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