How can industrial manufacturers level up their production processes in a scenario that calls for constant dynamism to combine high production rates

and flexible use? Prima Power is presenting answers to this question at the 16th Blechexpo international trade fair for sheet metal working, where the brand showcases its modular and scalable integrated solutions designed to meet customers’ challenges and open to their future growth.

Blechexpo, 7-10 November 2023 – In every industry, manufacturers have to step up their business to meet growing demands in a highly competitive market. They have to evolve optimizing processes and resources, automating production, and saving energy and money. Prima Power is at the side of its customers in this evolution, offering a unique ability to integrate its wide range of modular and scalable technologies into their processes, to improve their production performance. This ability is deeply rooted in the DNA of the brand and is backed by a distinctive engineering knowledge and a customer-focused approach. At Blechexpo in Stuttgart, from 7 to 10 November, Prima Power will be demonstrating how its targeted solutions level up customers’ production processes combining multiple work stages as one and handling a wide material range to finished bent products automatically.

An integrated manufacturing line that solves the productivity-flexibility trade-off.

Prima Power showcases a unique production solution as world premiere at Blechexpo: a manufacturing line including a combined punching and laser cutting machine Combi Genius, a loading, unloading and stacking robot LSR, a servo-electric press brake eP Genius 1030 with an integrated tool change storage, and a 7-axis industrial robot.
With its profitable combination of productivity and flexibility, this system is a perfect solution for a wide range of materials and complex product manufacturing. Designed to be an efficient process solver and challenge-ready manufacturing line, it handles the tighter bends, the thicker materials and the most complex assemblies. These features make it the perfect tool for several industries, such as machinery and yellow goods.
Visitors of Blechexpo will also discover the benefits of Prima Power software ecosystem as if they were in a real factory. They will thus experience the highly efficient seamless flow from ERP order to machine production in a few clicks, the complete overview, the easy and clear production planning, control and diagnostics, and the faster reaction to production changes.

The high performing and flexible technologies that make up the innovative manufacturing line.

The system on display on Prima Power stand at Blechexpo relies on the next-level Combi Genius for combined punching and laser cutting. This advanced model features a bigger combined working area, better cutting performance with 6kW laser power with new cutting head and efficient gas mixer, and improved robot performance.

The resulting main benefits are a strong reduction of cycle times thanks to a 25% cutting speed increase, a 25% saving in gas consumption, a huge overall improvement in cutting quality of highly sensitive materials such as aluminium.

The enhanced performance of the Combi Genius adds to the unparalleled flexibility of this automatic multi-purpose solution, which integrates different working stages thus speeding up production and reducing manufacturing costs.

For the efficient and accurate handling of the material flow from the punch-laser combined system and the bending cell, the line exhibited in Stuttgart includes the loading, unloading and stacking robot LSR. The robot loads sheets to the machine and stacks finished work pieces onto stacking pallets.

After the parts are punched and cut with the Combi Genius and handled by LSR, they can be bent by the state-of-the-art eP Genius 1030 press brake with an integrated 7-axis industrial robot.
The eP1030 is the best-selling machine of the servo-electric press brake family, and it comes complete with an automatic tool change storage that can hold 28 meters of upper and lower bending tools (dies and punches) on 7 racks. This press brake offers a more versatile, faster and more reliable bending solution, eliminating the need for manual machine set-up.The real innovation of the eP Genius presented at Blechexpo is the addition of the anthropomorphic robot for loading and unloading operations. This makes it possible to work completely unmanned, freeing up the operator’s time for value-added activities such as preparing and testing production programs.
In a direct mode, the robot picks up the punched/cut parts released by the LSR of the Combi Genius on a roller table, places them on the press brake to be bent and unloads them on pallets positioned on the floor. The robot can also work in a temporary buffer mode, i.e. in a continuous process with a temporary waiting condition.

The robotic cell is configured with a Sheet Reverser, which allows the robot to turn over the part to be bent or the component before stacking it, whenever this is required by the operating program, and with a Gripper Storage, which can accommodate 3 different grippers, which are automatically stored by the robot when they are not in use.

Prima Power solutions open the way to future growth.

The manufacturing line showcased at Blechexpo is one of the innumerable combinations made possible by the range of easily integrable technologies provided by Prima Power. Its full set of technologies paves the way for manufacturing systems that can scale up and adapt to future changes. This makes Prima Power the best partner for profitable automation systems of any size that make manufacturing processes evolve over time. At Blechexpo Prima Power experts will be available to listen to process requirements and offer their advise on the best solution for today’s business and its possible evolution to follow tomorrow’s changes.

The Prima Power booth is located in Hall 3, booth 3201.

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