TPC 628:
Compact manufacturing cell concept for
fully automatic tube production
Due to the current demand in the field of renewable energies, especially with regard to heat pumps but also for domestic hot water systems, transfluid has decided to create a new, particularly compact production cell concept that is specially adapted to this field and offers customers a capacity expansion at a good price/performance ratio with the smallest possible space requirement.
Version 1:
Loading of finished blanks up to 1000 mm
- Loading of the finished sections via step conveyors
- Forming of the 1st pipe end
- If necessary, turning of the tube and forming of the 2nd tube end
- Bending
- Discharge onto conveyor belt
Version 2:
Coil feeding incl. straightening and cutting to length:
- Feeding of the tubes as coil material
- Straightening, calibrating and chipless cutting of the tubes (without tearing)
- Forming of the 1st tube end
- If necessary, turning of the tube and forming of the 2nd tube end
- Bending
- Discharge onto conveyor belt
Version 3:
Combination of straight pipe feeding and coil feeding:
- Feeding of the tubes as coil material
- Straightening, calibrating and chipless cutting of the tubes (without tearing)
- Alternative to coil: feeding of fixed lengths up to 1000 mm
- Forming of the 1st tube end
- If necessary, turning of the tube and forming of the 2nd tube end
- Bending
- Discharge onto conveyor belt
Further expansion stages
The new cells can be expanded as required using the transfluid machine portfolio to include, for example:
- To machine the second side of the pipe or trim excess lengths
- Necklines to addition
- Feed nuts
- Control Stations
- Printing / Labeling Stations
- and much more
Advantages
- Attractive price, good price / performance ratio
- Extremely compact, small footprint
- High flexibility for short pipelines
- Bending possible with and without mandrel
- Tube ends can be machined on both sides (depending on geometry)
- Arbitrarily expandable
- Punching of holes on the bending machine possible (depending on geometry)
- For copper pipe: Volatilizing lubricants that eliminate the need to wash the pipe if necessary
- Low lubricant consumption
- Central plant control
- Fast, easily accessible tool change
- Modular plant design
Fields of application:
- Domestic hot water systems
- Heating systems
- Air conditioning systems
- Automotive applications Short pipelines up to max. 1000 mm total length