Bill Bossard

Put dynamic nesting and smart part labeling together, then add panel bending and press brake equipment with no changeover time, and you make kit-based, single-piece part flow a reality in the fab shop.

Freeing a bending bottleneck can backfire if it simply creates a severe bottleneck downstream. Bending throughput may increase, but overall throughput--the metric that really matters--may not. That’s why the best bending automation considers not only the bending department but also the throughput of the entire plant.