New Processing Automation Solutions From Southern Metal Fabricators Accelerate Timelines While Ensuring Quality
New Processing Automation Solutions From Southern Metal Fabricators Accelerate Timelines While Ensuring Quality
New Processing Automation Solutions From Southern Metal Fabricators Accelerate Timelines While Ensuring Quality
If you're a structural design engineer in the steel industry, processing automation solutions are crucial to streamlining your workflow and maintaining precision and quality control. Even when faced with tight deadlines, it's your responsibility to guarantee the safety and integrity of every structure, ensuring that your clients' constructions or renovations will endure the test of time.
Southern Metal Fabricators is here to support you in achieving these goals with three innovative processing automation tools:
The Peddinghaus XDM-630, designed to enhance CNC drilling, sawing, and materials processing efficiency.
The TRUMPF 3030 Fiber Metal, which offers labor-saving laser cutting and sheet/plate production capabilities.
The Bend-Tech Dragon A400, an automated CNC plasma tube and pipe-cutting solution for speeding up railing production.
Keep reading to discover how each of these three solutions can help alleviate some of the pressure from your structural processing tasks. We’re committed to leveraging these advanced tools along with our 32 years of expertise to bring your CAD/CAM designs to life.
Processing Automation Solution #1: The Peddinghaus XDM-630
The Peddinghaus XDM-630 significantly reduces the time and effort required for fabricating metal structural beams, channels, base plates, stairs, platforms, ladders, or any work that demands rapid materials processing.
A few key advantages and features of this processing automation tool include:
Accelerated speed sawing cuts down on cutting times and boosts efficiency with automated material/cut sensing, cutting speed transition, feed compensation, and automatic retract.
Maximized multi-spindle drilling ensures superior hole quality and speeds up drilling time with high-speed 4-axis carbide drilling via 3 drill spindles equipped with 5-station tool changers.
Precision roller-feed throughput, enhanced by industry-leading roller measurement technology, maintains accurate measurements even with material deviations, increasing throughput accuracy.
Seamless slot & cope milling delivers finished parts that don't require additional grinding, thanks to precision drilling for a mirror-machined finish, ready for fit-up.
Automated parts handling with conveyor automation efficiently disposes of short parts into scrap while longer parts are quickly conveyed for further processing or unloading.
Processing Automation Solution #2: The TRUMPF 3030 Fiber Metal
The TRUMPF 3030 Fiber Metal eliminates unnecessary grinding work and surface cleanup associated with sheet and plate production, such as ductwork, thin-gauge material cuts, backsplashes, high-precision cut doors for OEM machines, and decorative features.
Key benefits and features of this processing automation tool include:
Precise intricate cutting provides better part quality and seamless part removal, thanks to the CoolLine functionality that allows cutting small contours in thick, mild steel.
Process-reliable cutting and sheet machining prevent components from tilting and minimize damage to contours for tighter nesting.
The Drop & Cut feature maximizes material value by enabling easy post-production from remainder sheets, while two 5-by-10-foot laser beds provide more cutting options.
The Smart Collision feature reduces collisions during laser cutting, and DirectLine ensures accurate sheet positioning and precise post-processing.
Doubles sheet throughput via a unique nozzle design that reduces nitrogen consumption by up to 60% – for high-speed materials processing.
Processing Automation Solution #3: The Bend-Tech Dragon A400
The Bend-Tech Dragon A400 is the automated CNC plasma tube and pipe-cutting solution for accelerating railing production, including segments and complete systems, with pinpoint accuracy for easy handrail assembly.
Key benefits and features of this processing automation tool include:
Offers more material thickness options, capable of cutting any thickness from 1/32 inch to 5/8 inch in pipes, tubes, channels, or angles.
Longer material cutting capability enables it to cut material up to 24 feet long, with pass-through via the chuck for round, square, and rectangular material.
Delivers more material value by cutting a wide variety of materials, including stainless and galvanized steel, aluminum, black pipe, chrome alloy, or any electrically conductive metal.
Flexible sized cutting for more options, including round .75 to 6 inches, square 1 to 4 inches, rectangle 1 inch to 4 inches, angle and channel 1 inch to 4 inches, and hypotenuse options.
Material coolant system improves cutting quality, reduces slag amount, and decreases fumes, making it ideal for cutting aluminum, stainless steel, or tubing with a small OD.
Jumpstart Your Structural Processing and Production Timelines
The above processing automation solutions represent just a fraction of the ongoing innovations Southern Metal Fabricators is investing in to simplify your structural design and fabrication processes.
Contact us today to find out how we can apply our expertise and industry-leading automation to bring your structural design vision to fruition, while helping you:
Boost throughput and expedite timelines for structural metal fabrications.
Enhance accuracy for precise metal plate fit-up and eliminate extra grinding.
Obtain perfectly assembled, dead-on, accurate plasma-cut handrails.