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Efficiency, accuracy and consistency are paramount to our profitability in those clients who we serve. Your bender is a vital piece of machinery and affects the amount of materials produced in your workshop. But even the most powerful machines only last so long. But by keeping an older press brake, that could quietly cost your business in many ways. Knowing that it’s time for an upgrade is important to remain competitive. We share the top 3 signs it's time to replace your old bending machine.
Steadily falling product quality and accuracy
One of the primary purposes of any bending machine is to provide for accurate, repeatable and high-quality bends. And when you begin to see more tossed parts out of tolerance, random angles on your cut, or visible blemishes in an otherwise finished product, that is a big red flag as well. This reduced performance can be due to aging of a key part such as the hydraulic system or ram, along with deterioration of the frame. Even though these parts are designed for durability, thousands of hours of use can cause microscopic fatigue where the components flex slightly and diminish the machine original rigidity.
The implication of this is that even with perfect planning and configuration, the machine may not have been applying force consistently or holding its position accurately under load. Not only does this squander time, material and personnel resources but it will be your reputation that’s tarnished if parts come through on the other end of production flawed. An updated bending machine, such as those offered through Nanjing ACL Machinery Factory, is sure to return this structural integrity and precision engineering to your component. The higher end machines are all constructed from the latest materials and designed to ensure that they provide you with repeatable accuracy for batch after batch—no more guess work or rework from older generation equipment.
Increasing Maintenance Related Costs and Occasional Default For No Apparent Reason
All machines need maintenance from time to time; this is normal. But when your aging bending machine requiring unplanned costly repairs and the price of replacement parts goes through the roof — it’s an economic billy club upside your head. You are probably in vicious circle pinning : once you fix a worn part, it just puts further load on the next weakest link, that will break down soon too.
The same things start happening, multiple hydraulic leaks, pressure not working right and electrical problems. The machine is idle most of the time waiting for a technician, not making revenue. The price tag of such repairs, not to mention the time offline and production lost, soon mounts up. In the long run, supporting a patchwork of an aging platform is not a good business model. A brand new bending machine is the beginning of a clean slate with little maintenance required beyond standard upkeep. Most modern machines are being built with reliability and longevity in mind, keeping your crew from constantly worrying about the mechanics of production so that you can focus resources on growing instead of fixing expensive 'reactive' repairs.
Lack of Ability to Keep Pace with Modern Production Needs and Safety Requirements
The manufacturing world is changing, and it’s important to be efficient. If your previously purchased bending machine does not have the latest controls, demands hours of time setting up for each job or simply can’t keep up with the volume or complexity of orders you currently receive, then it is also holding back everything else you do. A worker who takes a half an hour of manually figuring out a bend on the shop floor with legacy equipment may step up to a CNC-controlled machine and accomplish the same task in minutes.
Conclusion
Although the capital investment on a new bending equipment may appear to be huge, by continuing with an obsolete system you are actually paying more than the cost of buying new. The steady production, minimized loss pack-aging and handling, less overhead expense for running the plant, higher production etc makes a modern machine be paid off quickly. When any of these three symptoms appear in your shop, you probably ought to be looking at a replacement.
