SOLUTIONS FOR SHEET METAL WORKING PRODUCTIVITY

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SOFTWARE SOLUTION PACKS

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

SOFTWARE SOLUTION PACKS FOR SHEET-METAL WORKING

In today’s global environment, companies are facing the competitive challenge of analysing and converting engineering data into business-critical information for a faster time-to-market.

Software systems play a major role in this process, as they enable organizations to collect and easily access large volumes of data. AMADA focused this idea into the VPSS (Virtual Prototype Simulation System) concept, which has the final aim of significantly optimizing your productivity.

AMADA provides a complete suite of software products, perfectly integrated, and totally focused on applications for the sheet metal industry. In this document you will find information about all the solution packs related to the different sheet metal applications.

SOFTWARE SOLUTION PACKS

o AP100 CAD o PRODUCTION DESIGNER o Dr. ABE BLANK o VPSS 3i BLANKo CUT5 EXTENDED

o AP100 CAD o PRODUCTION DESIGNER o SHEETWORKS o VPSS 3i BLANK o Dr. ABE TUBE

BLANK SOLUTION PACK

TUBE SOLUTION PACK

o AP100 CAD o PRODUCTION DESIGNER o VPSS 3i BEND

o AP100 CAD o PRODUCTION DESIGNER o EP CAM

o AP100 CAD o PRODUCTION DESIGNER o AR CAM

o AP100 CAD o PRODUCTION DESIGNER o VPSS 3i WELD

BEND SOLUTION PACK

BENDING ROBOT SOLUTION PACK

PANEL BENDER SOLUTION PACK

WELD SOLUTION PACK

The Blank Solution Pack comprises all the AMADA blanking CAM solutions in order to run your AMADA laser, combi and punching machines at the highest speed and optimum level.

The Tube Solution Pack is everything you need to run your AMADA tube laser machine with the highest efficiency.

Press brake productivity will be drastically improved through this complete suite of software which takes care of sheet-metal part creation and off-line bending program generation.

A complete suite of software designed to process sheet-metal parts for the AMADA EP Series panel bender machines.

AMADA welding machines can be easily driven using the software included inside the Weld Solution Pack for the fastest off-line welding programming.

It doesn’t matter which kind of AMADA bending cell you want to program; with the Bending Robot Solution Pack you have all you need to run your production at the highest level.

The evolution of CAM for AMADA blanking machines.

Fully integrated in the VPSS 3i suite, VPSS 3i BLANK is a perfect mix of advanced algorithms for automatic processing (nesting creation, tool assignment and process sequence) and a smart manual environment for a quick manual editing.

Moreover, VPSS 3i BLANK allows competitor machines to be programmed using the CUT5 Extended module.

Dr. ABE TUBE provides fully automated off-line programming and nesting for AMADA tube lasers. It is directly linked to AMADA’s 3D modelling system, SheetWorks, for fast switching between CAD and CAM environments.

SOFTWARE PRESENTATION

AP100 CAD is not only a standard 2D CAD system, but it also includes specific sheet-metal drawing & unfolding functions. Thanks to real bend deduction data coming from AMADA bending machines, AP100 CAD ensures a quick efficient 3D Sheet-Metal Model creation.

Production Designer allows you to import different 3D data formats; it automatically converts them into 3D sheet-metal parts and save data into the AMADA Digital Database. Production Designer can automatically recognize sheet-metal specific attributes like bend data (V bend, hemming bend etc.), and blanking data (extrusions, tapping, emboss, louver, etc.).

Each software solution pack proposed in this brochure contains the following two CAD systems.

TUBE SOLUTION PACK

TUBE SOLUTION PACKDr. ABE TUBE

BLANK SOLUTION PACKVPSS 3i BLANK

COMMON PLATFORM FOR ALL PACKS

SPECIFIC SOFTWARE FOR EACH PACK

AP100 CAD

PRODUCTION DESIGNER

EP CAM, the fastest way to program AMADA EP Series machines.

It takes care of all machine and tooling motions in order to provide a safe and optimized production. Moving the programming phase from the machine to the PC, it allows you to increase the machine productivity.

The off-line CAM solution for AMADA EG-AR and HG-AR series.

AR CAM automatically takes care of all robot motions, to let the user concentrate on the bending sequence and tooling creation, in addition to other basic information such as part loading/unloading gripper positions.

The VPSS 3i WELD software simulates the robot path based on data stored inside the AMADA Digital Database (3D model, welding attribute…) to enable offline programming and consequently enhancing the machine production ratio.

The next step in off-line bending CAM solutions.

Conceived from the actual AMADA bending solution experience, VPSS 3i BEND is the perfect match of a very simple all-in-one user interface and high level automatic bending algorithms.

VPSS 3i BEND allows off-line auto generation of the bending sequence, as well as tooling for single and multiple parts. Thanks to an advanced tooling engine, the software calculates the best common tool layout to drastically reduce the press brake tool setup time during everyday production.

SheetWorks integrates AMADA sheet-metal & bending knowledge into a powerful SolidWorks environment to easily create 3D parts and empower the sheet-metal modelling features. Thanks to the “BatchUnfold” process, SheetWorks can automatically create unfold drawings with efficiency, with all the related CAD/CAM attributes, starting from the 3D assembly, and save them all on the AMADA Digital Database.

SheetWorks also includes tube modelling and processing technologies to produce tube, channel and framework.

TUBE SOLUTION PACK

WELD SOLUTION PACK

SHEETWORKS

VPSS 3i WELD

BEND SOLUTION PACK

PANEL BENDER SOLUTION PACK

BENDING ROBOT SOLUTION PACK

VPSS 3i BEND

EP CAM

AR CAM

PROCESS OVERVIEWEach software technology can take advantage of the VPSS concept (Virtual Prototype Simulation System) to lead to a total, enhanced and error-free production with AMADA machines.

TIME SAVING IN PART MODEL CREATION BY PRODUCTION DESIGNER

50% TIME REDUCTION

Part editing, correction & preparation for job-shop Save

Save

Flat Layout Import(DXF)

Production DesignerData ImportAFTER

BEFORE

PART CREATION

TIME SAVING IN BLANK PROGRAMMING BY VPSS 3i BLANK

TIME SAVING IN BEND PROGRAMMING BY VPSS 3i BEND

70% TIME REDUCTION

70% TIME REDUCTION

Single part’s assignment creation Nesting Planning

Bending data input

SaveBending process

Bending process

Machine / tools setup

Tools setup Save

Nesting process generation

Experience-basedmanual unfolding

Nesting process generationNesting Planning

ConfirmafterFull Auto

CAM VPSS 3i BEND

AFTER

AFTER

BEFORE

BEFORE

BLANK

BEND

THE SHEET METAL DIGITAL FACTORY

AMADA proposes a digital manufacturing using VPSS (Virtual Prototype Simulation System). All data is created in the office and used in the workshop via a network and database.

Production Designer Weld CAM

Welding

Bend CAM

Bending

Blank CAM

Blanking

Data

JOB

Data management

Server

The graphs below show current examples of savings that can be achieved by using the appropriate software solution. Results depend on types of parts, manufacturing conditions and material variations.

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CAM VPSS 3i BLANK

PRODUCTION DESIGNER

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