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BEND I NG , END FORM I NG & SWAG I NG
Proven Results Achieve Success
AIRMO - A History of Quality and Excellence
1-763-786-0000
Seventy years strong. Airmo continues the family tradition providing
quality, high-performance tools and systems for fast, accurate end
forming, swaging, and tube expansion. Dedicated to our customer’s
success. We are here to support you with parts, service and
innovative ideas to meet your unique tube
fabrication challenges.
Tube OD Ranges
0.13 in. to 3.00 in.
(3.2 mm to 76.2 mm)
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TubeInspect measuring and inspection
COMMUNICATION between humans,
machines and products brings about
challenges and has been called the
fourth industrial revolution. However,
TubeInspect, AICON’s tube and wire
measuring system, already meets these
advanced requirements.
The Menk-Schmehmann Group
is one example of how TubeInspect
can be fully integrated into the
process chain. The company offers
its customers the production of
cooling radiators, large tanks, special
constructions and corrugated tanks,
as well as all the possibilities for pipe
shaping technology, from one single
source.
TubeInspect can be directly linked to
all renowned CNC bending machines.
If tube measurements indicate that
adjustments need to
be made to the tube
manufacturing pro-
cess, corrections are
directly transmitted to
the bending machine
via the CNC program.
Günter Suilmann,
director global sales,
TubeInspect, said:
“We are happy to
provide our customers
with such future-
oriented technologies.
With TubeInspect and
the software platform
BendingStudio, AICON is well-prepared
for Industry 4.0 because we efficiently
connect different working areas and thus
allow for a fast and reliable production
process.”
As a part of Hexagon the aim of AICON
is to combine technologies and ideas to
enable close loop manufacturing.
Sensing, thinking and acting – these
are the terms AICON uses to define this
method of integrated manufacturing
processes with TubeInspect.
AICON 3D Systems is a provider of
optical camera-based 3D measuring
systems.
The company, founded in 1990,
develops and distributes portable
coordinate measuring machines for
the business areas of inspection and
testing including car safety and tube
and wire inspection, as well as optical
3D scanners for the measurement of
complex surface structures.
AICON 3D Systems GmbH – Germany
Website:
TubeInspect P16: Optical tube and wire
measuring system for all tube lengths