FABTECH 2017: Tube bending
and cutting in one step
Fully automatic solution from transfluid for
efficient exhaust manifold production
Streamline operations are particularly required in
such cases, in which a product cannot be installed
until several components are available. This was the
reason why in a recent project, transfluid developed
a system solution for the efficient production of a
complete exhaust manifold made of 4 or 6 different
stainless steel tubes.
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For this purpose, a 6-meter long tube is first loaded
onto the tube-bending machine. Each individual
tube is fitted with up to 4 bends. After the bending
process, the tube is cut, chip-free, on the bending
machine directly using a blade cutting process and
is then inserted by robot into the corresponding
forming machine. It forms an asymmetric geometry,
which fits each individual bend progression. After
processing, the components are then fed directly into
a welding cell. It welds the tubes to flanges. This way,
one complete module is always available as a unit.