During the event in Tianjin, China, Bystronic presented upcoming trends and innovations where customers' requirements was the focus. "We want our machines and process solutions to enable users to be cost-effective, efficient, and fast – from the offer right through to the delivery of the manufactured parts", Norbert Seo, Bystronic senior vice president market division Asia and Australia, explains.
Thus customers got to see how they can rely on Swiss quality and innovations in the fields of laser cutting, bending, and software. One of the innovations that were unveiled during the open house at the Chinese development and production location in Tianjin was the new BySmart Fiber laser cutting system. The machine enables a fast entry into fiber laser technology. With the Xcite, Bystronic presented a versatile press brake that allows bent parts to be produced fast and cost-effectively. With the process software, it was proven that the cutting and bending process steps can be handled simply and efficiently within a unified software environment.
Laser Cutting With A Difference
With the BySmart Fiber, a laser cutting device, users can launch directly into fibre laser technology without detours or lengthy preparations. The newly developed machine platform implements outstanding cutting results with just a few operating steps. To achieve this, the machine’s performance package focuses on the core benefits of a fibre laser which is using a simple and cost effective method.
In the thin range of sheet thicknesses, the BySmart Fiber uses the full potential of fibre laser technology. Here the machine significantly speeds up the cutting process compared to a CO2 laser. But the machine also proves its qualities in the thicker sheet metal range. In addition, users benefit from comparably low operating costs and maintenance requirements. Hence, for users whose range of applications lies in the thin and medium material range, this means: faster cutting processes, lower costs, and higher profits with every cut part.
On the BySmart Fiber, operators control the cutting process using a 22-inch touch screen. With the ByVision user interface, the user controls the operations with using swipes of the finger: upload cutting plans, start the process, and the machine then gets going. The user interface then accesses an extensive database that includes the parameters for all the common types of sheet metal. Taking the material, sheet thickness, and part geometry into account, it generates the ideal cutting process.
Taking Bending A Step Further
In today’s increasingly demanding work floor, the introduction of Xcite press brake looks to enable fast and efficient bending processes.
The Xcite 80 E is essentially an electrically driven press brake. It is the fast and economical way to high-quality bent parts. In concrete terms it bends some two and a half times faster than a hydraulic press brake. Using the Fast Bendsafety system the tool can be positioned very close to the metal sheet without the operator being placed in any danger. Only then does the machine switch over to bending speed.
The Xcite press brakes look to achieve new heights of accuracy. Thanks to Bystronic’s proprietary “force dynamic drive” it bends to within a high tolerance of plus/minus 25 arc minutes and with a simply incredible repeatability of plus/minus 0.0025 millimetres. Behind the force dynamic drive there lies the interaction between a special mounting of the lower beam and the unique drive system of the upper beam.
The BySoft 7 software guides users through sheet metal processing with simple programming of cutting and bending processes. This software solution supports users in all the process steps associated with the cutting and bending of sheet metal parts.
Hence the software essentially creates a potential competitive advantage for the user. The software solution will be constantly updated, in order to already fulfil the constant changing requirements of modern sheet metal processing. Thus, customers can benefit from innovative software and constant updates. With it, users work in a process-oriented, fast, and intuitive manner.
BySoft 7 is structured in such a manner where even someone who is first time user, will not find much difficulty in handling it. In addition, the software simplifies the processes in the manufacturing stage – designing of parts, creating cutting plans, generating bending programs, simulating bending sequences and much more. Everything runs automatically and based on validated data.
It consists of four modules: flat processing, tube processing, bending, and the “plant manager”. The plant manager is a unique tool that both plans and monitors all cutting processes for the customer. In addition, it makes all the relevant machine and production data available, and hence ensures a maximum level of transparency in the fields of sheet metal and tube processing.
