Schwarze-Robitec delivers tube bending machine to ELB-Form

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Schwarze-Robitec has delivered a fully electric, multiradius CNC 80 E TB MR tube bending machine to Vandans, Austria-based ELB-Form for cold and hot tube forming. The company forms to extremely tight tolerances, even with complex tube geometries for confined spaces, for the production of exhaust tubes and systems.

The bending machine is equipped with Schwarze-Robitec’s intelligent NxG control system. For each bending sequence, the system automatically checks the interaction among all axes to help ensure the movement sequences are optimally coordinated. While a bending process is ongoing, the axes are being prepared for the next sequences. The production time is reduced by 20 to 40% depending on the component and the desired tube geometry. For one application, the time required for a single bending process was reduced from 35 to 16 seconds.