The client is king. This is also the belief of engineering company transfluid, based in Schmallenberg. Customers often request tube processing machines with specifications that are particularly challenging. And every time, the experienced engineers at transfluid will work hard to find the best possible solution.
A very good example is a real project transfluid has worked on, requiring the production of a stainless steel manifold with a very complex shape, which needed complicated bending, forming and calibration of the ends. This was the specific challenge: to only manufacture the tubes needed for one manifold, so that the client can take four or six pieces to get always one manifold in the welding process, even for the large-scale production. The result: when on single tube fails in the automated welding unit it can be further processed, the cell gets a signal and produce one single tube extra. That´s one-piece flow.
Ready for all requirements
The individual requirements of the customer also included the production of a sequence of at least four tubes that were not same, without pre-cutting the tubes. The automated cell included a loading magazine for long tubes, a device for the orientation of the weld seam, a bending machine with five bending levels and capable of cutting the finished component, when the bending process is complete.
In addition to this, the components were calibrated both internally and externally at the same time with a finger expansion. The final complex bending shape was put in an axial combination machine at the end to finalise the endforming of the opposite end. This machine can perform the final exact cut in an orbital and chipless way. This makes it possible to reshape the tube axially with one clamping process.