An automatically adjusting auto gauge system comprises a servo motor that provides rotational motion; at least one of a gearbox and linear actuator driven by the one or more servo motors to transfer the rotational motor of the servo motor to linear motion; a group of roll former passes, each including a cam arm, an eccentric cam, a push rod, a top set of roll tooling, a bottom set of roll tooling; a bar operably coupled to the gearbox and the cam arms of the group of roll former passes, the bar driven by the gearbox to impart linear motion to the cam arms, which in turn imparts rotational motion to each eccentric cam, which in turn imparts linear motion, raising or lowering the top set of roll tooling via the push rod, adjusting a gap between the top and bottom sets of roll tooling.

A machine that may allow for notching, flanging if required, and bending of two different materials with different physical profiles and bending parameters and feeding requirements. The machine may process channel letter coil and/or trimcap material. Each type of material may be fed into the machine accurately, notched using one or more different notching methods, flanged, if required, and then bent in the proper shape given the various physical differences of channel letter coil and/or trimcap material. Accordingly, sign manufacturers may automatically notch and bend channel letter coil to produce letter returns and/or trimcap material used to attach the faces to the channel letters using just one single machine.

A precision compensation mechanism of a full-automatic bidirectional flanging machine comprises an upper die X-direction fine adjustment assembly, an upper die Y-direction fine adjustment assembly, a lower die X-direction fine adjustment assembly and a lower die Y-direction fine adjustment assembly, wherein the fine adjustment assemblies each comprise N adjusting threaded sleeves, N adjusting screws and a threaded sleeve rotation driving device; wherein the N adjusting threaded sleeves are threaded into an upper opening or a lower opening of a C-shaped flanging beam along the length direction of an upper die or a lower die; the outer wall surfaces of the N adjusting threaded sleeves are threaded into the upper opening or the lower opening of the C-shaped flanging beam to form N screw thread pairs I with the thread pitch of P1.

There is provided a press brake that improves bending accuracy of a partial bending method. The press brake includes: a conveying mechanism that intermittently conveys a workpiece; a die; a punch; a crowning mechanism; a bending amount measuring device; and a control device. The control device presses an end portion of the workpiece in a conveying direction by the punch and conveys the workpiece by the conveying mechanism until the pressed portion enters into a measurement range of the bending amount measuring device. The control device drives the crowning mechanism so as to correct a crowning amount in accordance with a difference between a middle bending amount and an end bending amount measured by the bending amount measuring device.

An apparatus for the support and the controlled advancement of a sheet in a bending machine for forming a cylindrical or conical structure, in particular of a truncated cone structure, comprises a base structural frame adapted to be positioned upstream of said bending machine, with respect to an advancement direction of the sheet, a plurality of conveying modules which can be mounted, removable, on the structural frame so as to generate a plan of modular support and advancement which can be configured geometrically according to the shape and dimensions of the sheet to be produced; the modular support and advancement plane is geometrically configured to keep the sheet metal part supported by the plane in a flat condition; an lifting and tilting device configured to vary the position of the structural frame, supporting the conveying modules, from a horizontal lying position to an inclined lying position in which the support and advancement plane is inclined downwards towards the bending machine; repositioning and position correcting members configured to orient and arrange the sheet in a correct position before starting a bending cycle and configured to correct, during the bending cycle, the position of the sheet to impose it a predetermined advancement trajectory towards and through the bending machine. The relative method is also envisaged.

The invention relates to a bending machine (100) configured to bend a metallic workpiece (200), having a controller (130) configured to control a bending operation, wherein the controller (130) has at least one interface (340) configured to obtain information about a time-dependent springback of the workpiece (200) to be bent and to obtain a time indication of a subsequent further machining of the workpiece (200) to be bent, wherein the controller (130) is configured to calculate an adapted bending angle (α) based on the springback and the time indication, and wherein the bending machine (100) is configured to bend the bending operation beyond a bending angle (β) to be bent up to the adapted bending angle (α). Due to the adapted bending angle, the workpiece (300) has the correct bending angle (β) to be bent at the time of subsequent further machining.

The invention relates to a method for producing a component by forming a workpiece (5) from sheet metal with a bending machine (1) having a control device (10) and a manufacturing program (14) for operating the bending machine (1), wherein in a processing area (18) at least two manufacturing steps each with a bending formation are carried out on the workpiece (5), and wherein the processing area (18) is recorded by a camera (16, 17), and images of the processing area (18) are displayed to the operator (20) by a display means (19), and, wherein during the performance of a first manufacturing step, working instructions for a subsequent phase of the current, first manufacturing step or for a subsequent, second manufacturing step are superimposed by an image processing program (15) on the images of the processing area (18) to be displayed by the display means (19) and are displayed by the display means (19).

A machine integrated positioning system shows an operator where to place a raw part in the press brake or other machinery. Further, the operator is informed if the dimensions associated with the raw part are, or are not, correct to produce the planned finished part. The operator is visually shown how the raw part is to be oriented. The operator is informed if the raw part is right-side-up, along with other pre-final placement information. If these and other conditions are not met, the machine integrated positioning system may prevent the press brake and other machinery from cycling.

The present disclosure generally relates to material processing of a two-dimensional sheet like material into a desired three-dimensional shape object. In more detail, this disclosure presents a system, a computer device and an industrial robot for use in material processing of a two-dimensional sheet like material. The system may comprise one or more computer devices and one or more industrial robots in a distributed computing environment. A two-dimensional sheet like material may be provided to the industrial robot. Also, a digital instruction for the spreading and subsequent folding of the provided two-dimensional sheet by means of the industrial robot may be received from a computer device. The industrial robot may execute a thus received digital instruction to produce, or otherwise create, a desired design of a three-dimensional object from the provided two-dimensional sheet like material.

The present disclosure generally relates to material processing of a two-dimensional sheet like material into a desired three-dimensional shape object. In more detail, this disclosure inter alia presents a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising executable instructions for use in material processing of a two-dimensional sheet like material using a computer device.