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Metal forming and fabricating in Italy
Published: October 14, 2016
Shop Metalworking Technology Magazine
FABRICATING INDUSTRY UPDATE
Salvagnini opens its Sarego, Italy doors to Canadian
manufacturers
Several Canadian manufacturers recently had an opportunity to
tour the facility of Italian metal fabricating equipment
manufacturer Salvagnini during their visit to BI-MU, the country's
largest trade show for machine tools.
Salvagnini is based in
Sarego, Italy, a town near
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Venice. Accompanied by
Steve Spilak, sales
manager for Salvagnini
Canada, the delegates
toured the company's
manufacturing facility and
witnessed demos of an
automated punching and
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fiber laser cutting system,
a panel bender and an automated fiber laser cutting system equipped with one of the company's
modular automation systems, MCL for unloading, separating and stacking parts. Their tour guide was
Gianfranco Gotter, regional program manager for Salvagnini.
The 33,000 sq m (355,000 sq ft) facility employs 650 people. The
manufacturing operation manufactures press brake, fiber laser
cutting machines and panel benders (a specialized machine with
a 254 mm or 10 in. high bend of which it produces 12 annually)
and tooling for bending and punching. The more standard panel
benders with 203 mm (8 in.) high bends are produced in the
company's Austrian facility, where they manufacture and
assemble approximately 120 machines annually. The Sarego
facility also produces approximately 100 fiber lasers annually.
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While Salvagnini offers
stand alone metal
fabricating technology,
Gotter is quick to point out
that it's not where the
company's strength lies.
Instead, Salvagnini's
strength and reason for
success is about
customization and flexible
automation.
Indeed, approximately 40 per cent of the machines it produces in Italy are customized products and all
are designed with automation in mind.
"We build machines based on extensive feasibility studies we conduct with customer," explains Gotter.
"We analyze their production needs to ensure we can offer the best system. Everyone can sell a laser, a
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press brake, a panel bender or a punch but what creates the complexity is when you put different
machines together and this is where Salvagnini is strong with our Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS)."
An example is the company's MCL, modular automation for its fiber laser cutting systems. The L5 model
for example, can be set up in different ways to match different production needs. The automated,
integrated system unloads, separates and stacks parts produced on the laser. Gotter says because
Salvgnini designs its machines with "modular automation" it means that even if a customer purchases a
fiber or a panel bender as a stand-alone, the machine can be integrated easily into an automated line
downstream, making a machine like the L3 fiber laser a "flexible batch-one processing" capable one.
Another key is fabricating data management that allows for the
introduction of an Industry 4.0 approach to metal fabricating.
Salvgnini's software has the ability to exchange information with a
company's ERP or communicate with other systems. For
example, machine programs can be created from production
orders and information on production can be returned
automatically.
Salvagnini has built a reputation on high quality automated
systems, says Gotter and to maintain its reputation it has a
comprehensive testing protocol. "Every single machine that we produce for our customers is tested and if
there is a anything that doesn't work correctly we fix it before it gets to the customer. We create reports
that we keep inhouse and if the customer asks for the report we will provide them with the information."
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The plant will soon
undergo a change to
accommodate the growing
demand for panel
benders. In Italy alone,
there is an eight month
wait. "We will increase the
number of panel benders
because we supply them
for customers all over the
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world," explains Gotter.
"We will move our press brake production on January 1 2017 to another building 10 km from this plant.
The philosophy of building a press brake is different from panel benders and fiber lasers because these
[panel benders and fiber lasers] are designed with flexible automation so they have many options that
you don't typically find in a stand alone press brake."
The Canadian manufacturers, who represented companies from
BC, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, were part of a delegation the
Italian Trade Agency invited to Milan as part of its mission to help
promote Italian machine tool exports.
www.salvagnini.com
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