Sheet metal machine tools are the fundamental production equipment in the sheet metal processing industry and play an important role in the field of metal product forming.
In the upstream process of sheet metal processing, domestic metal cutting machine tools have already achieved a basic level of automation. However, in the field of sheet metal bending, the majority of bending equipment still belongs to traditional devices with low automation, low production efficiency, and high technical requirements for operators. According to statistics, the global market stock of machine tools in the sheet metal industry exceeds 500,000 units, with a market size of over a hundred billion yuan. The annual total demand is more than 100,000 units, of which the annual demand for flexible bending centers exceeds 20,000 units.
Compared to traditional bending machines, Lanhao Intelligent Flexible Bending Centers demonstrate several main advantages:
1. Speed:
Lanhao Intelligent Flexible Bending Centers can achieve fully automated bending processes in as fast as 0.2 seconds per tool, significantly reducing the cycle time for multi-sided and multi-step bending. They are more than three times faster than traditional CNC bending machines, with greater speed advantages for workpieces with more and more complex bends.
Traditional CNC bending machines require skilled technicians to manually position and bend the workpieces, requiring repositioning for each bend, resulting in lower efficiency.
2. Labor:
Lanhao Intelligent Flexible Bending Centers have low technical requirements for operators. Ordinary workers can be trained to operate them, eliminating the need to hire experienced skilled workers. At the same time, the bending process is fully automated, greatly reducing labor costs and the physical strain on workers.
Traditional CNC bending machines often require multiple workers to complete the bending of larger-sized workpieces, whereas Lanhao Intelligent Flexible Bending Centers only require workers to place the workpieces on the worktable, with the equipment automatically positioning them. This significantly saves time and effort.
3. Safety:
Lanhao Intelligent Flexible Bending Centers eliminate the need for manual handling of workpieces during the bending process, greatly reducing the safety risks caused by human error.
4. User-Friendliness:
Lanhao Intelligent Flexible Bending Centers adopt graphical visualization programming. Workers only need to input bending data based on the workpiece, and the system automatically generates bending instructions. There is no need for code programming, and ordinary workers can master it within two hours.
Traditional CNC bending centers require workers to master complex programming skills and remember the bending sequence for each bend, which is more challenging and prone to errors.
5. Consistency:
Lanhao Intelligent Flexible Bending Centers can achieve automatic positioning of the sheet metal. The system's positioning accuracy can reach 0.001mm, resulting in higher consistency of the formed products, making them more suitable for mass production.
Traditional CNC bending centers have lower precision in positioning, leading to dimensional errors due to multiple positioning steps.
6. Automation:
Lanhao Intelligent Flexible Bending Centers provide rich interfaces for easy integration with upstream and downstream production lines. They can be integrated with robotic arms for automatic loading and unloading.
When combined with Lanhao's self-driven robotic arms and controlled by the same system as the Intelligent Flexible Bending Centers, the coordination and efficiency are further enhanced. Changing workpieces only requires modifying the bending center program, and the robotic arm program is automatically generated, providing greater flexibility.
7. System Upgrades:
Lanhao Intelligent Flexible Bending Centers are independently developed and possess multiple core technology patents. They offer free lifelong upgrades and are designed according to the Industry 4.0 architecture, with reserved interfaces for future integration.
8. Tooling:
Lanhao Intelligent Flexible Bending Centers use universal bending tooling and achieve various shapes of bending through multi-axis concurrent linkage and full servo control.
Traditional CNC bending machines require dedicated tooling for each shape, resulting in higher costs.
