were searching for,” says Ultibend’s co-founder
and director, Linc Turley. “The investment means
that our business now has the manufacturing
platform to support substantial growth, including
our current expansion into the USA and other new
export markets.”
Ultibend uses in its process, and then exploit
the all-electric machine architecture to enhance
productivity,” says Jim Saynor, Unison’s Senior
Commercial Manager. “The result is that the two
new machines have increased output- while also
providing much richer programming, networking
and operator control facilities to open up further
opportunities for progress.”
One of Ultibend’s unique advantages is the
very high functional quality of its tube fittings.
Bends are highly uniform, with the kind of ovality
tolerances that would normally only be found in an
aerospace workshop. This quality level is achieved
by Ultibend’s proprietary manufacturing process,
which means that bent parts are exceptionally
uniform as they come off the machine. Ultibend
also developed its own clamping system, which
allows short elbow and U-shape parts to be
gripped and bent at the expense of trimming only
a miniscule amount of scrap material. Both of these
techniques have been incorporated in Unison’s
new customised machine design.
The main reason the Unison machines speed the
bending is the inherently greater control of motion
that’s possible inside Unison’s software-controlled,
all-electric machine architecture. The software
gearbox is able to control and coordinate several
axes simultaneously for instance, avoiding the
delays of a more mechanical machine such as the
latency in response of a slave axis.
Unison Ltd, Faroe House, Thornburgh Road,
Scarborough, YO11 3UY, UK.
t: +44 (0)1723 582868; enquiries@unisonltd.
com; www.unisonltd.com
“Unison’s customisation capability means that
we’ve been able to emulate unique features
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