Continuing investment in versatile all-electric bending machinery is helping one of the US Midwest's leading tube and pipe fabrication specialists, Sharpe Products of Milwaukee, to meet the evolving business challenges in its sector of the metalworking industry.
The company has bought a 130 mm一致管弯管。这是过去几年中一系列全电动弯曲者购买的最新产品。夏普（Sharpe）投资使公司在满足近年来发生变化的管子和管道工作业务的需求方面优势。大多数客户不再想投资股票，批量尺寸大大降低。这意味着机器设置时间成为工作定价的主要因素。这也意味着在设置过程中产生的任何废料（通常在使用较旧的液压弯曲机时通常会遇到几件）可能会对工作成本产生负面影响。
Another major factor in the all-electric decision is the increased demand for tighter radius bending - often down to around 1D (one diameter of the tube size being bent). Sharpe puts this trend down to the way that many OEM companies are now optimising designs in terms of compactness, materials used, accessibility etc.
"All-electric bending machines help us to stay extremely competitive - on all types of projects - if we only had hydraulic machines we probably wouldn't win a lot of the jobs we bid on," says Sharpe's President, Paul Krickeberg. "The Unison machine can be configured for a new batch in typically a third of the time of a hydraulic machine, with no scrap or one piece at the most, and we have such fine control over the bending process that we can easily fabricate really complex shapes with tight radius bends, multi-radius bends, minimal straight sections between bends, etc."
新机器是Sharpe的第二个Unison-Brand Bender。该公司拥有一个76毫米的Unison Bender，在研讨会的员工中被证明非常受欢迎。这种经验以及Unison给予夏普的支持使购买第二台机器的决定变得容易。
Sharpe specified the latest Unison Breeze 130 machine for flexibility, to help the workshop serve any customer requirement. It's a multi-stack bender with an ability to hold several tools on the machine for computer-controlled changeover, and is also fitted with high torque servomotors to accommodate the most challenging materials. It also features a swing-away wiper die for precision shape forming and control of material flow, and is capable of roll bending.
“一致高兴地赢得了这一命令，因为满足大型求职研讨会的需求几乎与您所能获得的挑战一样大，” Unison的Alan Pickering说。“新机器必须非常通用才能赚取其保留，并且从精确的一次性工程零件到在消费市场中运营的OEM的数量运行的工作范围可能不等。”
Sharpe Products started up in 1990 as an architectural tube and pipe bending metalwork specialist, but its business has evolved and today the company's output is split almost equally between the architectural sector, tubular and pipe parts for OEMs, and custom-fabricated assemblies. The company has 13 bending machines in total, with all-electric bending machines spanning a size range from 32 to 130 mm. Sharpe handles even larger tube and pipe sizes using hydraulic machinery resources.