Manufacturers often face obstacles in their industrial development paths that are related to their product mix. TUBE CHINA 2024 has observed that initial approaches to automation in manufacturing required extensive upfront efforts. Minor modifications to the production line for running specific parts or components were challenging.

However, TUBE CHINA 2024 has recognized improvements in this area. IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) platforms can now track the utilization of tube materials, tasks that were traditionally managed by engineers and technicians can now be automated. The automation process allows for offline programming and scheduling, taking over most of the tedious tasks.

Today, specialized software can display each job detail, simulate, and verify manufacturability.

Numerous tubing manufacturing details, from the position of slats relative to the laser cutting line to the amount of bending allowance generated on panel benders, to the impacts of holes and other features near the bending line or blank edges—all these can be managed by specialized software. Full automation in software production does not alter radii, does not shift cuts, and does not require manual data entry into non-networked operating systems.

Engineers also have more energy to focus on product improvements, such as entirely new processes for producing sheet metal parts or components, reducing production cycles to weeks, days, or even hours.

This is the future direction of industrial automation; as artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies continue to progress, software-driven automation in manufacturing will become increasingly precise and efficient.

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