Machines for sheet metal
Sheet metal working: where is 15,9% of raw material being wasted?
In the sheet metal industry, traditional production processes start from metal sheets, with punching and laser cutting machines. The scrap generated in the process can reach 15% and more: parts nested in sheets leave a skeleton used as a support that needs to be disposed of later.
In this article, we will see how to adopt alternative and modern manufacturing technologies that start directly from metal coils, presenting a real case where one manufacturer has generated 95.200,- Euro in savings per year on raw material by adopting a coil fed punch/laser production line on just 10 articles out of his production.
It will also be presented how to adapt the Pareto rule to identify the right articles to focus on, the industries and product types that profit from this savings, understanding the production logistic and the size of the production batches.
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Case history: Elleci Spa and the impact of raw material on production cost
The simplest way to explain how coil fed production influences the bottom line, is to show how one company has managed to profit from moving 10 articles from sheet to coil fed lines.
Elleci Spa is a manufacturer with more than 40 years experience in sheet metal fabrication: they operate in northern Italy and their manufacturing capability widens from turret punching to laser cutting systems, press brakes and panel benders, roll forming and stamping lines, coil fed punching and laser cutting lines, robot welding systems and a powder coating plant. They provide their customers 360° service including part design for manufacturing, production, assembly and packaging of the products with the original customer’s wrapping.
The following data is courtesy of Elleci company, taken from the payback calculation for the investment in a coil fed punching and laser cutting line.
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