AddisonMckee raises the professional bar on component repeatability via introduction of Mandrel Bend Monitor

World-leading tube bending and endforming technology specialists, AddisonMckee, are now able to offer a highly advanced mandrel force monitor that can be specified as an optional extra with the company’s latest tube benders, or retrofitted to many existing models.

With an industry-wide reputation for reliability, repeatability and high precision, AddisonMckee has invested considerable time and effort investigating how it can raise the bar further on finished component quality via the implementation of a monitoring process designed to highlight even small variations in mandrel performance.

“Typically, the problem with mandrel failure sensor systems,” comments AddisonMckee Director of Global Marketing, Christian Rogiers, “is that, while being effective, they can lead to increased maintenance and machine down time caused through non-relevant warnings. We have, consequently, been reluctant to embrace such solutions.”

Highly advanced process variation monitoring
“Following the signing of an agreement with process monitoring devices company, OES Inc. of Canada,” he added, “I am, therefore, delighted to announce that AddisonMckee is now able to offer customers a highly advanced, robust and far superior process variation solution. One that is not simply a proven way to detect broken mandrel links that can result from excessive pull forces, but is also able to identify the issues that result in such a force taking place.”
Recognizing slightest variances in pull force