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The TruBend 5130 . Modern bending machines are often automated and equipped with robots . A digital feasibility check and automated part optimisation boost productivity . ( Photo source : TRUMPF Group ).
“ The AI-based process can be used for potential recognition , feasibility checks and part optimisation for sheet-metal processing .”
Founded in mid-2020 as a start-up based in Stuttgart , Optimate GmbH aims to digitise sheet-metal expertise to optimise parts for greater process reliability .
Optimate GmbH , a TRUMPF start-up founded in 2020 , aims to give sheet metal fabrication more process reliability in manufacturing . The key is a cloudbased web app solution for analysing and optimising sheet metal parts .
“ The automated potential recognition and AI-based part optimisation with integrated redesign is unique in the market so far and supports the digitalisation process on the way to Industry 4.0 and Smart Factory . In the future , further web shops and marketplaces are to be connected ,” Optimate told ISMR .
To ensure that bending does not turn into breaking , a great deal of expertise is required in sheet-metal processing . However , this is mostly in the minds of experienced sheet metal specialists who are gradually retiring . With the departure of the experts , the wealth of experience gained over many years is disappearing .
The Stuttgart-based start-up , Optimate , has therefore set itself the task of digitising the sheet-metal knowledge that has been built up over decades . This is a real challenge considering how extensive and diverse the applications are in sheet-metal processing ....
A sheet metal repository
“ We recognized this problem and wanted to hold decades of knowledge and access to sheet-metal expertise as a ‘ digital consulting service ’,” recalled CEO and co-founder , Jonas
Above : The user accesses the optimisation platform with the app via the Optimate homepage . Left : Optimate CEO , Jonas Steiling , is also thinking about new billing options . ( Photo source : Optimate ).