TPT November 2007

Technology Update

Tube manufacturer counts on TubeInspect S for prototyping

The measuring system is also of benefit when expensive materials like stainless steel are processed. EMW is now in a position to determine the correct geometries of a sample tube, and to set up the bending machines with almost no rejections, decreasing the costs of materials. Aicon 3D Systems GmbH – Germany Fax : +49 531 58 000 60 Email : info@aicon.de Website : www.aicon3d.com

EMW, Germany, a medium-sized manu- facturer of tubes, has successfully developed from a classical metalwork shop to a modern, creative tube manufacturing workshop.

of bending data. Markus Klass, production manager at EMW, commented, “ The advantages are particularly easy to see when a sample tube possesses many bends. Sometimes, we work with prototypes with more than 15 bends. If you are then supposed to find out the correct bending data by trying, it will take you a long time, even with expert knowledge. Now we can rely on solving the task with TubeInspect S in just a few seconds. ”

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Since 2006, the company has applied Aicon’s TubeInspect S optical tube measuring system, for measuring sample tubes and setting up its bending machines. The company has not only saved time in reverse engineering, but also decreased the costs of materials. In addition, the measuring results of TubeInspect are completely independent from the user, so they are reliable and repeatable. TubeInspect, from Aicon 3D Systems, Germany, is a non-contact measuring system. The tube to be measured is placed in an optical measuring cell, and several high-resolution digital cameras accurately measure the tube’s geometry in only a few seconds. The bending data is reported in an easily understandable way, and can be directly transmitted to the bending machines. This procedure is very time-saving for EMW, compared to the manual generation

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