Introduction To The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Automatic And Manual Control Of Pipe Bending Machines

At present, there are two main methods for pipe bending machine equipment: manual and automatic. The manual pipe bending machine mainly consists of a bed, a bending angle mold, a corner movement mechanism, a fixed length movement mechanism, a pressure pipe mechanism, and a pipe bending mechanism. It adopts a manual operation mode and can only complete the processing of the entire hard pipe through multi-step manual operation. Its shortcomings are low processing efficiency, high labor intensity, and cannot adapt to the needs of mass production.

The automatic pipe bending machine is mainly composed of a control system, mechanical parts, and auxiliary components. It adopts an automatic production mode and uses the control system to control the auxiliary components to make the mechanical part operate. The mechanical part mainly includes the bed, bending angle mold, angle motion mechanism, fixed length motion mechanism, pressure pipe mechanism, and pipe bending mechanism. The auxiliary components mainly include displacement sensors, angle sensors, and bending angle sensors. The control system mainly consists of a controller The text display is composed of a computer, which mainly outputs the bending program. The text display is mainly used for operating prompts for bending angles, and its control method adopts a controller of a CNC machine tool. This type of bending machine has high work efficiency and is suitable for mass production needs.

However, this type of automatic pipe bending machine requires software programmers to program, and the entire machine bends the workpiece according to the programmed process. Its shortcomings include: firstly, the cost of the entire machine is very high; Secondly, specialized software programming is required, which takes a long time and incurs high costs; Thirdly, it has poor flexibility and is not suitable for on-site piping.