The increasingly powerful digital connection for tube machining processes is a tailored driver of technical progress within the industry. For hydraulics in particular, solutions are required, which ensure safe tube machining, as well as automated processes where required.

transfluid at the Hanover trade fair: Hall 20 / Stand B14
Powerful automation is even possible with very low unit quantities, for ... Read more

The path to exact measurement data for component production, reverse engineering, or component inspection is especially indispensable for creating valuable results during tube bending. For this reason, the experts have developed t control together with a partner - a wireless system for measuring tubes and connection elements like flanges. Plus, it doesn"t need arms, joints, or laser beams, and measures via an exactly defined light pattern, which is observed by one or more cameras. These ... Read more

The trend towards flexibility in machining processes with a high degree of automation is still clearly enduring in many sectors. Nonetheless, with all the innovative strength and performance power of such systems, we still have the question: When and how does it make sense to automate? And, is the robot a means to an end or the deciding factor?
Stefanie Flaeper, Managing Director at transfluid, has the answers. The ... Read more

Streamline operations are particularly required in such cases, in which a product cannot be installed until several components are available. This was the reason why in a recent project, transfluid developed a system solution for the efficient production of a complete exhaust manifold made of 4 or 6 different stainless steel tubes.
For this purpose, a 6-meter long tube is first loaded onto the tube-bending machine. ... Read more

Cutting tubes is an art. A process is especially valuable if it avoids scrap and makes the immediately following process possible. For example, in exhaust technology in the automotive industry (at least when engine manifolds are involved), short tubes are frequently required, which feature numerous bends in short sequence. Of course, there is always the option to bend previously cut parts. However, it"s often the case that workpieces are cut on one side or both sides and, under some ... Read more

When people think about 1st April they mostly think about spectacular stories that ultimately turn out to be a joke. That is not the case for Gerd Nöker and Ludger Bludau. They both remember how the history of their company also started on a 1st April and now, 30 years later, the success it enjoys is greater than ever. The story is about transfluid: established in 1998 in Schmallenberg in Sauerland as a two-man business, the current GmbH is now a sought-after international partner providing ... Read more

Safety is an issue that is extremely important in the aviation and aerospace industry, perhaps more so than in any other industry, and therefore the demands are very high, also on tube processing, as managing director Stefanie Flaeper explains: "There is often demand for fast production processes of small batches of complex components, of course. In addition, high and ultra-high strength materials are an important matter for tubes that are more lightweight and that can be subjected to greater ... Read more

Digital solutions are required by the international shipbuilding and off-shore industry for efficient planning of their resources and processes. To support that, the high-tech machine manufacturer transfluid combine their bending technologies for large diameter tubes with online networking aimed at practical applications, as with the "t project" software calculating beforehand the exact orientation of the flanges, when bending straight tubes with welded flanges. Mobile measuring tools acquire ... Read more

The t-bend bending machines from transfluid are an efficient alternative to welding in large tubes, capable of high-performance processing of tubes with a diameter of up to 400mm. This reduces the manufacturing costs and offers time savings of up to 60%. In addition to that, it is possible to weld flanges to the straight tube before the bending process. The "t project" bending software will process the isometry though the connection to the corresponding CAD programs. This way transfluid creates ... Read more

transfluid is presenting its highly dynamic two-directional tube-bending machine at FABTECH booth C10236: Flexibility is highly critical in cases in which right-hand and left-hand tube bending is required for especially complex geometries. An adaptable bending solution provides for new options to achieve this, even if structural issues cause options to be inhibited due to space restrictions. For challenges of this kind, transfluid has developed its high-performance t bend tube bending machine ... Read more

The highly dynamic stress on hydraulics tubing and connections needs technology that delivers clean, robust and long-term tight results. The engineering company transfluid has been developing tube bending machines for the past 30 years to produce these results and the solutions for these demanding specifications are more and more advanced. They go from simple bending machines that bend directly on the equipment to CNC-controlled bending machines. Cutting ring pre-assembly machines are available ... Read more

Robots that process tubes in an effective and flexible way have already being used for some time in transfluid"s production cells. Since the beginning, these bending systems have been capable of taking isometrics data and use them to generate bending data, without the need for separate robot programming. The high-tech engineering company has now taken the development of its bending robots one step further and improved them again. "We wanted a solution that was even easier to use. This applies ... Read more