Press Brake

P.E.P. TECHNOLOGY © Measurement Masters, Inc. • 711 West 17 th Street, Building E-11 • Costa Mesa, CA 92627 Corporate: (949) 631-6950 Fax: (949) 631-6953 E-mail: Sales@peptechnology.com Press Brake - Improving the PRODUCTIVITY of the press brake ( Fig. #1 ) Creating mini nests as a single part allows the press brake operator to fabricate multiple parts in one operation. Needless to say, bending 5 parts or 20 parts simultaneously dramatically improves the productivity of the press brake operator ( see attached ROI, 9 hours reduced to 1 hour ). Most companies do not use a mini nest because it is time consuming to set the cut direction of each cutout, assign the lead-ins, assign tabs and sequence all the cutouts and the boundaries of each part when cutting the mini nest on a laser. Tooling a mini nest for the punch is equally as difficult for competitors. The P.E.P. software does all of the steps necessary to create the mini nest automatically. Fig. # 1 Press Brake - Bending “PARTS” with Grain Should a part require that it be nested with the grain of the material, the P.E.P. software database tracks the grain direction for each individual part for ever and ever. Regardless of whether it is one day or six months, or the grouping of different parts to be nested together, each individual part will be automatically nested in accordance with the grain saved to the drawing database. Most, if not all other nesting product do not save the grain constraint direction permanently. Some track grain in the current nest, however, if the nest is deleted and a different group of parts nested, the software will not nest the parts correctly. Some products actually require the user to remember that the part has grain and make it their responsibility to enter the rotation manually. Press Brake - Head raise time ( Fig. #2 ) Because of the unique nesting requirements of the press brake, the rotation of parts can dramatically increase the number of required head raises. A side benefit to all that has been mentioned about the P.E.P. nesting software is that the software always nests in patterns and therefore the number of actual head raises is often less than 5% of the total rapids. For lasers having even a two second head raise time, this is a machine savings that is often 15% of the machine run time. By the end of a single day, this amounts to an hour or more just to raise the head, by the end of the month this amounts to days of laser machine time lost to head raises. Competitors products on the other hand will generally have no less than 2 head raises per part and frequently more unless they have manually assigned or edited the lead-in location.