The robot equipped by transfluid with a special bending head breaks new ground in several respects and enables the automated production of large quantities for the first time.

Sensitive busbars, which present a challenge during handling, bending and positioning due to their low inherent stability, can be bent reliably and with repeat accuracy.

In addition to the actual bending process, the bending robot also handles the material handling for loading and unloading. This saves space and costs, as no additional handling systems are required.

The speed advantage achieved in this way is further increased by the possibility of twisting the workpiece. As this twist is performed during the bending process with the aid of the clamping unit (chuck) mentioned above, the conductor rail does not need to move to a new station.

In the end, this means a further optimization of the cycle time.

Upstream of the bending process is another innovation from transfluid. The t cut cutting system specially developed for busbars. The horizontally arranged coil unwinding unit allows large lengths of material to be fed into the process. After passing through the straightening unit, busbars are separated into equal or different lengths and then sorted and discharged.

The soft aluminum and copper material is precisely separated up to a material thickness of 40 x 5 mm by a special knife/chopper.

The servo-controlled feed enables absolutely dimensionally accurate cut-off lengths at high speed. Time is also saved when setting up the machine. Dimension-dependent adjustments when changing materials can be made quickly using adjusting screws on the straightening unit or adjustable clamping levers on the guide rails, for example.

Mechanical set-up is no longer necessary and is no longer required.

The transfluid t cut cutting software handles the entire process efficiently and with repeat accuracy. It interacts perfectly with the t bend bending software, which controls the bending robot. This fully integrated transfluid system control offers the customer the advantage that manual teaching of the robot is no longer necessary.

All necessary settings are made as with a normal bending machine using the convenient transfluid software solutions t project and t bend control. The only difference is that the software has now been expanded to include the option of processing geometries made of flat material and simulating these bending processes in advance.