TPT July 2017

BEND I NG , FORM I NG & SWAG I NG

A par tner in metal bending FOR over 50 years Faccin SpA has assisted manufacturers around the world to solve challenging bending problems. The company produces and sells a wide range of bending machines, including three models for bending thin plates: HCU two-roll bending roll with high speed and productivity; ASI three- roll initial pinch bending roll; and 3HEL electronic three-roll pyramid bending roll with double pinch. For rolling thicker plates, two different models are available: 4HEL, a four-roll pyramid electronic bending roll; and HAV, a three- roll variable geometry bending roll.

Faccin has also developed a range of special machines for specific needs in the fields of pipe production, shipbuilding and aerospace. These include the long three-roll bending rolls of the HAV-2F range, suitable for use in pipe mills; FB angle rolls for bending bulbs and various profiles; PPS Shipbuilding presses for metal forming, levelling, bending, curving and 3D modelling; large-sized RP bending rolls that combine the speed of a bending roll with the versatility of a press brake; and the R line levellers for processing plates of any length up to 4m wide and up to 70mm thick.

for bending profiles with high flexion strength modulus; and Taurus for bending aluminium profiles and heavy metal fabrication work. The company’s dished heads production lines include technologically advanced presses, flanging machines and manipulators that offer reliability in terms of achieving tolerances and lamination reduction. Hydraulic presses (PPM) ensure forming accuracy, and automatic manipulator (MA) handling systems allow processing of several plates at the same time. Flanging machines (BF) offer high productivity and quality of the final product, and the hydroforming machines (PPH) are used in the production of dished heads for truck tanks.

Faccin also constructs and markets various types of angle rolls that ensure bending quality and productivity over time: RCMI, specifically designed

Faccin SpA – Italy Email: info@faccin.com Website: www.faccin.com

Por table measurement system expands oppor tunities for bending tubes

OBTAINING exact measurement data for component production, reverse engineering or component inspection is especially particularly useful for creating valuable results during tube bending. For this reason transfluid Maschinenbau GmbH has developed ‘t control’, together with a partner. The wireless system for measuring tubes and connection elements such as flanges does not need arms, joints or laser beams and measures via an exactly defined light pattern, which is observed by one or more cameras that determine the position and orientation of the light pattern in space. This enables the desired raw data to be recorded. Corresponding interfaces allow exchange of data with CAD and transfluid’s ‘t project’ bending program, and direct integration of the tube bending machine in the process. The overall system therefore increases flexibility. t control is portable, ensures a high level of precision in the measuring space (directly at the object), and is suitable for use on construction sites. No calibration is necessary and t control is ready to start within five minutes, with up to 20m of measurement power. Depending on the requirements, this is implemented via tactile measurement

connections can be recorded and processed digitally. This also includes detection and bypassing of possible projecting edges. The data exchange with CAD and the connection with the transfluid bending program enable the geometry to be optimised, including the bending collision test. Over-bending values for the bending machine can be recorded within the scope of the component inspection. transfluid Maschinenbau GmbH – Germany

with standard measurement sensors or tube measuring calipers. In addition to control measurements for components, material correction values for transfluid ‘t bend’ tube bending machines can be recorded. In the area of reverse engineering, simple existing geometries can be measured in order to reproduce them precisely. Data for component production is recorded by drawing a fictional tube shape using ‘air points’ between the connection pieces. This enables simple and exactly matching tube construction directly at the installation location. Connections like flanges and screw

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