Designed to minimise the press brake operator's input in order to achieve the correctly bent part, a CNC system has the speed and simplicity of a touch screen programming system.

LVD Company said that its 'CADMAN Touch' press brake (brake press) CNC system has been designed to simplify the 'art to part' process by minimising the operators input to achieve the correctly bent sheet metal part CADMAN Touch will be used on all LVD PPEB and Easy-Form series press brakes

It uses infrared touch screen technology running on a Windows XP embedded PC based control unit, and provides a CNC with the speed and simplicity of a touch screen programming system.

CADMAN Touch features an easy to use, intuitive user interface to minimise input to the control.

LVD told manufacturingtalk that it allows the user to move from drawing to completed part in fewer steps.

The highly reliable IR touch screen technology used by the CADMAN Touch control is a robust industrial design, successfully used in other LVD bending and shearing equipment.

* 'Intelligent' bending database - CADMAN Touch works with LVD's integrated 'intelligent' bending database and on board LVD CADMAN-B 3D (bending) software.

It creates and storing interactive integrated databases for bend allowance, angle corrections and spring-back.

These user-generated databases, compiled from actual bending results, are searched and applied each time a part program is generated.

It enables the control to 'learn' the optimal bending parameters for the given environment.

This automatic optimisation of the part program eliminates trial bending, and reduces the time required to produce a quality part, claimed LVD.

CADMAN Touch has full integration compatibility with LVD's CADMAN suite of offline programming software, allowing for integrated offline process integration.

The offline version of LVD CADMAN-B 3D (bending) software shares the control's 'live' bending database enabling parts and programs to be developed offline using 'real' bending data.

So the system eliminates unwanted errors in the actual blank generation prior to bending.

LVD said that it assures that the correctly developed part is presented to the press brake first time and every time.

Press brakes equipped with the CADMAN Touch control also feature a 'jog' button on the foot pedal, allowing the operator to 'jog' individual axes of the machine for fine adjustments.

CADMAN Touch gives 3D graphical simulation of the bending process, which can be viewed by the operator for part familiarisation before and during bending.

CADMAN Touch also enables operators see a graphical representation of the tool set up allowing for faster set up times.

Programming directly at the control is also fast and easy, 2D part profiles can be easily generated directly via CADMAN Touch's intuitive icon driven programming system.

CADMAN Touch also permits 2D and 3D files to be input directly at the machines control, eliminating the need for offline simulation and programming, said LVD.

Forming part of an integrated sheet metalworking solution CADMANTouch is fully network capable, allowing integration to workshop networks for program transfer backup as well as access to LVD's Teleservice remote service system.

* About LVD - the LVD Group is a leading manufacturer of a comprehensive range of sheet metal/plate working machine tools and software, including laser cutting systems, punch presses, press brakes, guillotine shears and mid-level automation systems, integrated and supported by its CADMAN PC-based Windows compatible software. 


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