From manual operation to fully automated production. Automation solutions from THALMANN / CIDAN offer a suitable degree of automation for every production volume and personnel deployment. Find out which degree of automation best suits your production volume and personnel deployment.
👉 Solutions in automation
Automation, digitization and Industry 4.0 standards are future-oriented tasks that pose major challenges for sheet metal working companies, but at the same time offer numerous opportunities.
With modularly integrable automation solutions from Thalmann, customers are optimally prepared for these challenges:
1. You can significantly simplify the complex production process and sustainably increase production efficiency.
2. You save valuable time and costs, especially personnel costs, because the entire system can be operated by just one employee instead of two or more.
Smart production with minimal manual handling
With the complete modular automation concept, you can expand the THALMANN longfolders into a (semi-)fully automatic production line.
This provides a huge increase in productivity, less handling and a safer production process.
Automation Opportunities
Smart production with minimal manual handling
Thalmann offers a complete modular automation concept that allows the longfolder to be expanded into a semi- or fully automated production line. This ensures a huge increase in productivity, less handling and a safer production process.
➤ 1. Side Loading Unit (automatic loading).
Automatic feeding of sheets from stacks or feeding systems.
→ Less manual work, higher speed and constant production flow.
➤ 2. Flipping Device (plate-tilting unit).
Automatic turning of plates during the production process.
→ Ideal for complex move sequences and double operations.
➤ 3. Sheet Unloading Unit (take-out system).
Finished products are automatically discharged to a buffer zone.
→ Efficient and continuous production without downtime.
➤ 4. THE BASE – fully integrated bending production line
Working with partners, “The Base” was developed – a fully integrated slitting, feeding and bending line that operates automatically from coil to finished product with minimal manual intervention.
1. Automatic (lateral) plate loading
Side loader with multiple heads
The Multi Head Side Loader TD can load up to 4 strips simultaneously in one swift motion when operating in 4-section mode. This means shorter loading times and significantly higher productivity. This is more than 40% faster! Each row of the Multi Head Side Loader TD is equipped with a vacuum injector and an ultrasonic sensor for accurate height measurement of your material. Our user-friendly software lets you choose whether to load one or multiple sheets and guides you to the optimal position.
Fast loader
Say goodbye to manual intervention with our fast loader function. This smart solution automates positioning of the back gauge, eliminates gripper compensation and ensures seamless feeding of narrow 75 mm strips in automatic mode. Increase the feed speed after turning the workpiece, enabling fully automatic mode for profile creation.
2. Automatic flipping unit
The integrated flipping mechanism significantly reduces the number of manual operations performed by the operator at the machine. The system automatically rotates the parts, then the grippers accurately position them for the next bend.
The additional benefits are numerous: machining is faster, safer for operators, more accurate and increases capacity, at a lower cost.
Combined with the integrated sheet feeding system, CIDAN offers a fully automated solution for the bending process. This means that the operator only has to deal with loading a stack of sheets into an infeed unit and removing the finished parts from the machine.
3. Automatic take-out system
After bending, the finished sheet metal profiles are automatically picked up by the machine and transported to the beveled edge buffer, where they can be easily removed.
The complete sheet metal processing unit can be automatically stowed under the beveled edge buffer. This allows orders to be reprocessed – even without full automation.
Video takeout system:
4. THE BASE
THALMANN, in cooperation with Cidan Machinery, Forstner and NuiT, has developed a fully automated bending line that combines slitting, cutting and bending in one fully integrated unit: THE BASE. The flexible unit requires no manual labor other than feeding the coils to the slitting machine and collecting the set parts for shipment.
The NuiT software (www.nu-it.at) allows customers or planners to order bent parts online. Parts ordered online are produced immediately, without the need for manual labor or administrative operations.
THE BASE allows roofers on the job site:
- Drawing a part on the computer;
- Checking to see if it is possible to put it on The Base;
- view the price;
- see when the part can be delivered;
- ordering the part;
- Received the confirmation and invoice; and
- take delivery of the part at the construction site.
Determine the level of automation yourself. We therefore offer customers solutions that can be adapted to your individual needs and can also be retrofitted to machines of the newer generation.
Video The Base:
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🔹 Machine options
Each Thalmann machine can be expanded with various options for maximum flexibility and efficiency.
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🔹 Software & controls
Smart software ensures fast and error-free production. From simple operation to full integration with CAD/CAM.
For variable integration into existing production lines and ERP systems, all Thalmann machines are equipped with open interfaces for all common software connections (e.g., ZeroT, Bendex and Sema) and CAD data formats
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