Journal - Trumpf GmbH + Co. KG

Bending Hardox steel:
A tough customer
High-strength steel is tough — and
that’s true during processing, too.
But Kreisel has figured out the trick
for bending and has created one
more unique selling proposition. Page 6
Retrofits:
More performance every day
Improvement needed? Producing efficiently and
customized with functional Product Enhancements.
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Sheet metal
shopping:
Savings that
can cost you
When can cost-cutting and
cheap sheet metal actually
increase users’ costs?
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Editorial
From the initial idea to the finished part. It might be simple
enough to summarize the process chain used for sheet
metal in just a few words. But it’s also true that every such
chain is unique. Hardly any part is identical to the next, and
ever smaller batches are being ordered, at ever shorter lead
times. Here the customer usually specifies in advance how
much a part is to cost. If we see the operations setting
prevailing everywhere today as a challenge, then — for a
company such as TRUMPF — customer orientation will
always involve a high degree of flexibility and individuality.
Let’s take applications consulting as an example. An
experienced expert works out new sheet metal manufac-
turing procedures on site, at the customer’s location. Such
consulting normally results in improved work sequences,
optimized programs and precise technology data. What is
quite clearly in the foreground is helping clients help
themselves, and that means imparting knowledge to the
customer’s employees. In the concrete case it is a matter of
using the production factors — material type, material
consumption, time, machinery, programs and tooling — in
an ideal way. It is by no means unusual for a re-engineered
part to reduce production costs by as much as half.
It is these individualized customer solutions that are the
special tools used in the fields of punching and bending.
Here tailor-made tools are created for our customers’
specific application. Our engineers develop the tool
specifications directly from the part drawings — custom
made and very individual.
Dr. Gerhard Rübling
Managing Director for Services