Under the same roof of the two factoriesBern contract manufacturer Stoppani company by investing in Bending Cell (with manipulator which Pro Bending machine) can be implemented in the future all independent production at night.

Hans Gattlen clear know what they want: a daytime operation by man by "dual factory" at the succession of the machine during the night.The near Bern noe lattice (Neuenegg) within the digital factory hope to realize automatic and fully independent production, thus save costs and reduce the burden of employees.Gattlen become partner Stoppani company at the end of 2018 and the chairman of the board, he and his team in the past few months the introduction of the new organization structure, especially for the modernized transformation of the plate processing department on a large scale.

At a much lower cost

The next step we will fundamentally on the spirit of industrial 4.0 for digital processing.The entrepreneur to the industry over the past few years lost to foreign order to win back to Switzerland.Because the production cost of Italy, Portugal and eastern European countries are usually 20% to 30% cheaper."We through automatic production cost can be reduced about 35%", he said.

Full automatic production through the night

A machine Bystronic play a core role in it."We are a Swiss first with Bending Cell company", Gattlen said.This machine has been put into use in the new workshop 4 months.

Each to the workpieces must conduct a programming in advance and later can always bring up the program.Manipulator combined bending machine which Pro the automatic processing orders, automatically change the gripper and bending die at the same time.Not only that: intelligent software BySoft 7 for each order to determine the best order, in order to realize the best efficiency."Connection with material is very important to us, whether it is plank of misappropriation or bending workpiece stacking, Gattlen said."Without this feature, so always want to be an employee is responsible for the bending machine."

Completely without human intervention

For this reason, the company decided to purchase Bystronic equipment."Our previous supplier can't make sure that the current machine and machine can establish connection with material in the future.So I was clearly aware that we need a new partner.

Principle is: when employees at night to turn off the lights when you leave the company, the manipulator and the equipment can continue to take over work.Workshop from 18 points to 6 continuous automatic production, without human intervention.Thus reduce the staff's night shift pressure and heavy work pressure, make sure that they can be engaged in demanding in the daytime bending processing or other work, such as laser cutting machine for programming.

To meet the various needs of

Bending Cell launched in 2018, has been in Canada, Hungary, France, Italy and the United States.The bending cell can be used for bending machine which Pro 100, 150, 200, 250 and 320.Maximum pressure tonnage of 320 tons, the bending length up to 3 meters.There are five different manipulator specifications to choose from, the corresponding carrying capacity between 90 and 270 kg.Kreisel: "Bystronic by type of diversity can provide for the customer to satisfy their needs of customized Settings.The characteristics of the bending cell also lies in the application of flexibility, "Bystronic automatic bending system product manager Benedikt Kreisel said.

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