TRUMPF Inc. (Farmington, CT) announces that the fastest TRUMPF mobile bending cell ever will be available in the North American market. The new automation solution, TRUMPF’s Flex Cell, works with the TruBend 7050 press brake, TRUMPF’s fastest bending machine. In a few steps, operators can dock the mobile robot cell onto the bending machine and operate it automatically. The machine can run autonomously for several hours. The combined footprint of the Flex Cell and the TruBend 7050 is under ten square meters, compact enough for any production environment.
The Flex Cell has a double-sized material buffer that ensures it has enough material to feed the TruBend 7050 throughout a night shift. A vacuum combination gripper on the robot arm enables fast and safe loading and unloading. Using the proven TRUMPF TecZone Bend software, a bending program can be created in just a few seconds. The operator is then able to program the robot by means of an app and the teach panel. This makes the TruBend 7050 quick and easy to set up. Thanks to automatic double-sheet detection, the Flex Cell recognizes if unprocessed material has stuck together during loading, and then eject it.
The Flex Cell is suitable for components with a format ranging from 600 by 400 millimeters to 70 by 50 millimeter. It can process sheet metal of between 0.7 and 6 millimeters in thickness. Combined with the TruBend 7050, the Flex Cell is ideal for companies seeking a solution to problems caused by a shortage of labor and that would like to increase productivity through automation. Companies with fluctuating orders of small and simple parts are particularly suited to benefit from this solution.
TRUMPF will debut the Flex Cell/TruBend 7050 combination in June 2024.
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