Unison goes on tour to educate
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Electric tube bending machinery specialist Unison has started a series of educational tours, demonstrating how manufacturers can reap productivity benefits from the precision and flexibility of servomotor-controlled bending technology.
Unison's next tours are planned for October 2009 and January 2010, and will also incorporate a technical workshop, customised to each visitor's application requirements, and a reception at the House of Commons: to enrol see www.unisonltd.com/tour.html
The first tour in July visited two advanced users: an aerospace components company and a manufacturer of commercial vehicles. The aerospace company employs all-electric benders to provide single-stage fabrication of extremely complex part shapes - often made using demanding materials such as titanium tubing, where any scrap is extremely expensive.
For the automotive manufacturer, the key challenge is lowering the cost of parts production, while handing a wider range of tube sizes.
"All-electric, servomotor-controlled bending offers a range of advantages compared with traditional hydraulically-powered machinery, including very fast and repeatable set-up that can virtually eliminate scrap, precise and flexible control over the complete bending cycle, and energy savings," said Unison's Alan Pickering. "All-electric machines can pay for themselves in weeks, and these tours are designed to demonstrate their capability first-hand - from the perspective of clever users."
