The new LVD Ulti-Form follows on from LVD’s Dyna-Cell robotic bending cell and takes bending technology a step further by incorporating an automated tool-changing press brake. This configuration serves to keep bending productivity at its peak, handling both small batches and long production runs efficiently with minimal changeover time. In short, Ulti-Form delivers high productivity bending with unattended operation.

LVD’s Ulti-Form features a 135-tonne press brake designed using the ToolCell platform, the company’s automated tool-changing press brake, integrated with an industrial robot. The press brake houses a built-in tooling warehouse and uses a gripper mechanism in the machine’s back-gauge fingers to quickly change tools. As the robot picks the first workpiece from the input stack and centres it, the press brake completes the tool change. Ulti-Form handles parts from 50 x 100 mm up to 1200 x 800 mm, weighing up to 25 kg.

Programming of both the press brake and robot is handled offline and no robot teaching is required. CADMAN-B software automatically calculates the optimal bend program. The robot software imports the bending data and automatically calculates all gripper positions, taking into account gripper force, collision detection and robot reach.

LVD’s Ulti-Form robot gripper is a patent-pending, auto-adapting design. The gripper has the flexibility to accommodate a number of part geometries, automatically adjusting to workpiece size. This attribute allows the processing of different component geometries without the need for a gripper change, keeping production continuous and uninterrupted.

Ulti-Form is also equipped with LVD’s Easy-Form Laser-adaptive bending system.

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