Prima POWER FMS sheet metal working

Prima POWER FMS  sheet metal working 

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Prima Power FMS
Unique production power based on unrivalled experience
Why Flexible Manufacturing? Two things that very often dictate today's component manufacturing strategies are production economy and the need for agility, the ability to cope with changes in batch size, materials and expected throughput times. The technological solution is Flexible Manufacturing. A Flexible Manufacturing System automates information flow from production fully automates manufacturing stages management through programming to production fully automates material handling including intelligent reporting buffering
provides an integrated production system, reducing 
implements manufacturing stages automatically as the whole fabrication process into a single stage planned

Prima Power FMS
When you need to meet the requirements of change and production economy Flexible Manufacturing brings a single overall solution with numerous productivity enhancing
benefits
more production with less floor space 5 minimized times for set up changes fast, automatic less storage and work in progress change from one product to another
less man hours and more machine hours through 6 automation high, even component quality unmanned operation 7 automation integrated scheduling and no
shorter lead time for product changes and new intervening manual work stages products 8 no lost production due to damages caused in shop logistics

Why Prima Power FMS
Prima Power is among the top four global specialists in sheet metal working technology, with a comprehensive product range in laser systems and sources, punching,
shearing, bending and automation for sheet metal industry. It is market leader in 3D laser systems for automotive, aerospace and energy markets. Today's performance is backed by over 30 years of experience in the sector and well over 12,000 machines and systems installed in 70 countries. Manufacturing facilities are located in Italy, Finland, the US and China. Products and services are available through a worldwide sales and service network consisting of Group units and distributors. Prima Power's FMS solutions are Combo FMS and Night Train FMS, customized systems for meeting ambitious production targets.

More than two decades
The history of Prima Power's flexible manufacturing systems is a long and famous one, the first one being installed as early as on 1990. While today's technical solutions are naturally far more advanced, the fundamental philosophy remains unchanged. FMS is a sound production strategy, and the hundreds of systems that we have delivered all over the world prove the soundness. We can make Flexible Manufacturing strategy work for the benefit of its users. Prima Power FMS technology automates the material and information systems of a facility and combines individual manufacturing stages into a single flexible process. Putting things together. We do this using more than two decades of FMS experience and the wide Prima Power range of high performance machine tools, integrated cells and automatic material handling. Due to the wide range, the optimum solution can be found for all work stages. Strategy at work. With Prima Power FMS technology, the manufacturer gets superior cost efficiency and flexibility. With customized production, efficiency approximating that of serial production can be reached also in small batch fabrication. At the same time, the technology is perfectly suited to highly efficient serial production. A well engineered FMS can become a dedicated manufacturing line for one product now, and in a few seconds or minutes for another product next month, or next year. Summed up, this amounts to the agility and flexibility needed for competitiveness now and in the future. Typical work stages that we can integrate in an automatic FMS process are punching, forming, tapping, marking, shearing, laser cutting and bending. The modular Prima
Power FMS concept allows the system to be built according to plant specific requirements. Further, the system need not remaon static. Cells, individual machines and work stations can be upgraded,changed or added, and storage capacity expanded. Your manufacturing technology can live with the times. The Prima Power years of experience guarantee that the solution for each function, as well the overall engineering of the system,are based on throughly proven know how in system customization software machine tools and cells
material handling automation customer support and service

Green Means FMS
Over the years, the Prima Power product range has been developed towards greater flexibility and operating
economy through versatility, high automation level and low energy and maintenance cost. Also for a long time, the ecological aspects have been included among design criteria.This translates into technology and know how which meet the requirements of both productivity and more sustainable manufacturing. We provide Green means. Servo electric technology. In many ways, servo electric solutions simply perform technically better than alternative ones. This forms the basis of productivity, and on top of that come the inherently low energy consumption and maintenance cost, which mean truly significant savings in the course of time. Prima Power punching, right angle shearing and bending solutions feature this technology for better operating economy and sustainability the less energy, the less CO2 emissions. As for hydraulic oil, if an automatic bending cell is integrated, a small quantity is needed for one auxiliary system, not a drop more in the whole factory wide manufacturing solution.There is no oil that needs to purchased and disposed of as hazardous waste. Fiber laser technology again, when fiber laser technology is chosen, energy consumption is reduced and so is CO2 drastically.

Less factory logistics
The entire material flow of Prima Power FMS solutions is automated. lt is a safe estimate that an FMS eliminates the need of one forklift and everything it means in terms of environmental impact. Less space
Consider the economical aspect of extending production premises, and the ecological ones. Another safe estimate is that an FMS requires only of the floor space
needed for the same production using stand alone machines and cells.
Prima Power FMS overall ecology
The very concept of Prima Power FMS has inherent sustainable features. It entails compactness for smaller space requirement. Prima Power machines and cells have been designed for low energy consumption, no hydraulic oil, economical material use, fast set up and high component quality. Automation eliminates human errors that often produce wasted material. All this sums up to smaller emissions. Environmental considerations become more and more important, and Green Means technology is part of the corporate image of modern companies committed to ecologically sustainable operation.The Green Means approach allows this and the production of high quality components at a lower cost. Prima Power FMS is the ultimate in Green Means technology.

Prima Power software
The characteristics that a good solution for system software must necessarily have include total coverage, efficiency, simple integration with other systems and, of course, ease of use. During the past few years, Prima
Power has made an extensive development effort to create such a solution. For the user, the benefits of Tulus software range over previous software are numerous, but the family is also compatible with previous programming and control generations. Whatever the size of the system, the Tulus family provides a flexible process management and control solution which can be integrated with other systems and customized to meet specific requirements. A perfect example is Tulus Power Processing, which communicates with the factory ERP and performs as Manufacturing Execution System.

Tulus Cell
Tulus Cell controls machines by tasks and provides an easy way of adding new production orders to the task list. The task list contains all essential information of
machine related tasks within the same window. Tasks can be reorganized, added or removed depending on the production schedule even during machine run. Task management automatically responds to the working order, giving immediately a new production schedule including tool and material changes as well as estimated
delivery times. Tool setup is fast due to griphical turret view and online tool data synchronzation with NC ExpressTM. Tulus Bend
Online bending process follow up & machine task list.
Line production control in any location. Different bending modes available. Assemblies can be defined also in bending task list.

Tulus storage
Storage support for PSBB lines and PR EBe cells.
Part, cassette and material inventory.
Storage status monitoring.
Tulus Terminal
Easy to use user interface for each process step, for example,welding or coating. Own task list for managing the work load and instructions for each work step. Part position information is known and managed during the whole production process. Possibility to control external storages. Up to date reporting of the parts made as well as damaged parts. Prima Power CAM NC ExpressTM programming system is a user friendly, integrated and automated tool for managing Prima Power equipment in the most efficient manner. NC ExpressTM is a scalable application the system may be used as a single part drafting and tooling program or as a fully automated machine tool programming system. Either way the results are the same optimized automatic NC code creation. Master Bendcam provides a simple and fast programming solution for Prima Power bending automation from a 3D model. Master Bendcam provides simplified programming through pre set bending cycles, optimization with 3D simulation and complete tool management.

Tulus options
Tulus Performance Reporting makes a huge amount
of information available about machine performance and utilization rate and allows analyzing where improvement is possible for production planning and where tool maintenance would be helpful. Performance Reporting panel can be used on any non Tulus or non Power Link machine to give information about run, idle, and fault times for reporting. Tulus Production Reporting prepares reports on processed production, for example, information of what material has been used and what parts have been completed in production. Tulus Mobile lnformation system makes it possible to get information on how the machine is performing directly to your mobile phone. Data sent to and from a mobile phone includes active alarm info, status inquiries and up coming machine tasks such as tool change. Tulus Web information System is easy to use with any device with lnternet connection and gives a good visual overview of the entire production. lt provides information about the machine and when operator intervention is necessary, for example, when the next machine stop is going to be.

Power Processing
Manufacturing Execution Systems
Remote optimization and control the whole production process from part order handling to the finished part.
Two way ERP connection Tulus receives part orders directly from ERP and sends production and performance reports back to the ERP system. Possibility to control production runs, part orders and machine work loads as well as the storage inventory. Parts can be nested automatically with little if any manual CAM operation required. All product components of the same material are nested and manufactured together. Parts can also be nested and manufactured on the basis of product assembly. Assembly and part management.
Production and performance reports and management of raw material inventory. Storage management and inventory of parts as well as of complete products part assemblies. Part routing gives the user the possibility to define the order of the process steps e.g. welding, coating etc. lnterface for supporting different machines.

Example
A company has several product families. Within a family, both common parts and numerous product specific components are used. Most components are made on order driven basis, while some are manufactured in longer series for stocking. Daily variation in production process is considerable. Orders are uploaded into a real time ERP system and forwarded as production orders. The production process is monitored step by step.
Example Order information is transferred from the ERP system into the Manufacturing Execution System of Tulus Power Processing. Power Processing receives product and component data. Stock balance check automatic storage and shop floor
Production routing is defined.
Automatic nesting and tooling for different machines for parts missing from the stock balance
Production orders are transferred to the work
queue of machines or scheduled in machine time calendar. Routing of work pieces to different work stages
Reporting by work stages
Reporting back to the ERP system