With the investment in a new Salvagnini S4 + P4 production line, Wippro GmbH, a specialist in attic ladders and door systems, is paving the way for future success. Equipped with an upstream single-sheet store-tower and a stacking robot, the system punches, bends and optimally sorts metal sheet for subsequent processes in a fully automatic manner. This new flexible processing solution makes economic batch size 1 production a reality.

“We’ve been working with a punching-bending combination S4 + P4 from Salvagnini since 1998, providing excellent service,” explains managing partner Robert Wipplinger. “The extremely flexible and fully-automated production concept was the reason we decided again in favour of Salvagnini’s S4+P4 production line.Furthermore, the co-operation with Salvagnini has always worked smoothly.”

Based on Salvagnini‘s MD sheet metal storetower, the S4 punching machine is fed automatically with single sheets from the rows of trays. Thanks to fully automated multi-press punching up to the finished part head in combination with the angle shears, the machine punches parts individually. Subsequently, the MCU device brings parts into the correct position for the P4 panel bender.

Wipplinger is extremely excited about the high degree of flexibility provided on the Salvagnini line: “We have no longer to think about which parts will be scheduled subsequently in the line,” he says.“Depending on the order, the system retrieves the corresponding material with the respective sheet thickness out of the storage tower and manufactures the part without any manual set up in a completely automatic manner and sorts them onto pallets. I call this the perfection of batch size 1 production.”
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