Automatic Tool Change

Air bending

Bending sheet metal in different angles using a limited set of tools.

Bottom bending

Bending sheet metal by enclosing the sheet between the punch and the die.

Bending short flanges

WILA's tooling solutions for achieving shorter flange lengths.

Bending with cut-outs near the bend line

Avoid deformations when bending near cut-outs.

Bending galvanized sheet

Bending galvanized sheet metal, aluminium or stainless steel on a press brake.

Box bending

Box bending requires forethinking your choice of press brake and tooling.

Heavy Duty bending

Tool Holders and Tooling for bending thicker or high strength steel.

Hemming

Finish sharp edges and strengthen parts of sheet metal products.

Large radius bending

Creating a bend with a large radius to material thickness ratio.

Mark-free bending

Reduce marking on the surface of the bent material.

Offset bending (Z-bending)

Making two equal and opposite bends in one hit.

An overview of all bending applications and techniques.

All applications

Automatic Tool Change

The WILA Automatic Tool Change concept consists of a universal robot gripper and ATC tooling. The gripper can be mounted to a robot, enabling quick and efficient tool change. Automatic Tool Change allows for fully automatically bending small batches of various products in random order.

ATC Gripper and Tools

The ATC Gripper allows automatic vertical loading and unloading of our New Standard tooling program executed with the ATC-adapter.

WILA New Standard tooling will be outfitted with an ATC adapter to enable handling by the Gripper. The ATC Gripper will operate the Safety-Click® when loading/unloading punches. Maximum weight of 12.5 kg/28 lbs. Maximum length of 255 mm / 10.039". Most standard tools can be equipped with an adapter.

ATC Tool Storage

ATC Tool storage can be integrated into an automated press brake in various ways. The most productive solution is our tool storage with pneumatic clamping that is integrated with Tool Identification and Positioning (TS-PC). With this storage system, robot teaching is no longer necessary when adding or moving tools by hand. Another way of storing ATC tools is the use of a docking station for tools up to 100 mm long and docking pins for tools that are 100 mm or longer.

Talk to an expert

Find out more about the benefits of Automatic Tool Change. Just give us a call and talk to one of our sales engineers to discuss all possibilities.