INDUSTRY

Construction & Reinforcement Steel

Automation for rebar stirrup bending, ring collection and material handling on reinforcement steel lines.

Construction & Reinforcement Steel - Automation for rebar stirrup bending, ring collection and material handling on reinforcement steel lines.

Reinforcement steel work is heavy, repetitive, and puts people close to machines that do not stop moving. We automate the bending, collection and handling stages of stirrup and rebar production, and the same control systems tell you what each machine is actually doing.

What makes this sector hard

Manual stirrup collection puts an operator at the discharge of a machine that is still cycling
Changeover between stirrup shapes and bar grades usually means a manual re-setup, not a recipe change
Bending machines often run with no shared record of runtime, downtime or output across a shop floor
Heavy bar and coil movement between stations is still done by hand on many lines

What we build

Automatic ring and stirrup collection

A three-arm rotary collector timed to the bending machine, so finished stirrups are taken off automatically and the operator works clear of the bending zone.

Bending machine automation

PLC and servo control with stored shape programs, so a changeover is a recipe selection rather than a manual re-setup.

Material handling and transfer

Conveyor, transfer and sensor integration so bar indexes between stations without an operator inside the working area.

Machine monitoring

Runtime, energy and fault data from every connected bending machine and collector on one on-site dashboard.

Typical applications

Stirrup BendingRing CollectionMaterial HandlingBatch ProgrammingMachine MonitoringHigh Torque Control