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Wire & Cable ASIA – November/December 2014
Industrynews
OMCG presented a world premier at wire 2014 with the
XMH, after having developed the new work-cell concept for
muffler hangers.
This is to provide customers in the automotive industry with
flexible, efficient solutions to make hangers in wire and tube
from carbon steel or stainless steel.
The core of the system is based on the eccentric bending
head that provides outstanding bending capabilities, and on
the M140 end forming unit that has been appreciated
through the years for its highest quality forming.
This has been re-engineered and integrated in a 12-axis
system with additional bending heads and forming units
which reduce cost and cycle time with concurrent
operations and overtake the bottleneck of sequential
operations with traditional CNC bending machines.
With the XMH system customers can make the majority of
muffler hanger shapes in less than eight or nine seconds
(depending on the cell configuration), even in the case of
double head.
Compared to the traditional sequential solution the system
is, on average, 50 per cent faster. The cell also optimises
energy and space occupation, saving about 30 per cent
when compared with a traditional system of the same
capacity.
To further enhance the system the XMH can make the two
parts in the same cycle time required for the main part, and
separates the two parts along the way through the cell. That
means that the second part comes out in no additional time.
Basically the two parts are processed together from a single
blank and separated in a special forming unit developed by
OMCG.
Change-over of the production from one part to the other is
as simple as in a traditional CNC bending machine and can
be virtually zero if the wire/tube material doesn’t change.
Where a complete new setting is required – for example
when changing material diameter – skilled operators can
alter the set-up in less than two hours.
Consistency and reliability are key points for the automotive
industry and extensive tests have been carried out on the
work-cell.
The cell can be easily integrated with robot or secondary
operation units from third parties.
OMCG – Italy
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