SALVAGNINI AMERICA
27 Bicentennial Court
Hamilton, OH 45015
Ph. +1 513 874 8284
info@salvagnini.com
The Fifth Wave home of Salvagnini
Dave Brambert here to welcome you to Salvagnini’s second home here at Fifth Wave Manufacturing. I’ve been very lucky because I have had access to the company, its people and its products. Over the last two years, I’ve written stories and filmed videos, getting only encouragement from the company and my readers.
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In fact, our most popular video to date is shown below. It belongs to an 11-video set I did about the S4 + P4 (Flexible Manufacturing System or FMS). Also below are a few executive interviews I’ve done with leaders at Salvagnini.
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As you explore further, you’ll see a number of Under the Hood stories with video content, and a special Software Zone that will continue to grow through the coming years as the company devotes even more resources to this increasingly important aspect of fabrication.
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Recently we put up shorter versions of some excellent videos that get into interview topics of high interest, or show (over the course of multiple videos) how a product goes from start to finish on Salvagnini equipment. We have edited these videos together, keeping the most important parts to show you, for example, process flow and flexible manufacturing.
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The condensed videos are:
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- Assembling parts made on the S4+P4
- Consecutive, diverse part-making on the P2
- Sheet to part on the S4+P4
- Interview with Eros Pavarini
- Interview with Giovanni Piccolo
- Interview with Peter Kitzler
Below these videos are some of the full videos with more detail and discussion.
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Veteran Talk: Salvagnini’s Giovanni Piccolo and Peter Kitzler
I was in the Salvagnini booth at FABTECH 2023 in Chicago, and the three of us were talking about the joys of being both a technical resource as well as a customer-facing representative for Salvagnini. There were a few instances of apparent dead ends that turned into highways, thanks to looking at the problem a little differently.
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It was a really engaging conversation. It dawned on me that it would make good video, and they agreed to meet the next day and have a similar conversation. Only two industry veterans could dish out this kind of information, and you will be glad they did.
#11 Salvagnini S4 + P4 line assembling all the parts we made
Barely over a minute long, this video shows the very end of our journey with the S4 + P4 FMS. As Derrick Clark points out, the cabinet is built in about 60 seconds with no fasteners of any kind, and using neither welding nor glue. The combination of the punch, shear, and panel bending operations made this possible. No one is hurrying here, yet we have a complete cabinet in a short amount of time. See the “How-To” section (which contains lots of “Under the Hood” content) below to get the full story on the S4 + P4 line we used that day.
Salvagnini’s Giovanni Piccolo: from PDPs to true automation
Giovanni Piccolo is a very interesting person. He talks about business and fabricating processes like they are everyday topics, totally comfortable in both the worlds of gritty get-it-done fabricating and the abstract, widgets-go-down-the-line analysis. Like a jazz player he is ready for variations on any theme and a change in tempo. Currently, he’s enjoying his 38th year at Salvagnini, which company he joined after a stint in the Italian army.
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Our conversation included: what is meant by a “global”approach within a company; communication protocols; how machine design must include future customer use; how new functional capabilities can actually change business/production processes; and much more.
Salvagnini’s Eros Pavarini on software
Eros Pavarini is a very smart, very kind gentleman who is the Marketing & Product Manager, Services, for Salvagnini. He has a good grasp on all the software Salvagnini offers. Things got very interesting when we started talking about remote support for Salvagnini machines, I think you’ll find the numbers he quotes to be somewhat surprising.
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It’s a very good overview of what Salvagnini offers in a number of different areas of software for fabrication.
Interview with Giovanni Piccolo May 2023
Any time I get a chance to listen to Giovanni Piccolo, I take it. He’s a very knowledgeable fabricating expert, and he likes to constantly mix business gains with technology advancements, which is practically Fifth Wave’s raison d’etre. You will hear his thoughts on introducing techology, the top two things customers want, and the control of and the control provided by automation.
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Below, the Software Zone is the entryway into the many advancements in fabricating software happening right now. I know you’ll be surprised over the simplicity of the world of software. It keeps getting easier and more powerful.
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The other section, the How-To Zone, includes sessions we did with internal experts with the equipment they know inside and out. These sessions always end up with valuable how-to information, so if you want to know what you can do with equipment, this is your place.
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The Software Zone
The How-To Zone
