Bystronic Inc  

In the age of Industry 5.0, the world is changing, and with it our business environment. Volatile markets, decreasing batch sizes, increasing product diversity, and shorter lead times require new approaches for the sheet metal fabricating industry.

The demand for automation and digital process solutions is increasing across the entire field of sheet metal fabricating. This trend is having a major impact on our customers’ business models and strategies. Digital solutions will support users with the planning, interlinking, monitoring, and optimizing of all their production processes. This will boost the sheet metal fabricating industry to new levels of productivity and transparency.

Bystronic with its software specialist Kurago, a strong partner with extensive expertise in the field of consulting and software development for smart production management, has pioneered process solutions that will propel forward Smart Factory software solutions and more, across different platforms.

Bystronic launches a groundbreaking software solution for the sheet metal industry.

BySoft Suite expands on the existing and highly popular BySoft software products already used by most of Bystronic’s customers. With the new software solution, customers can now completely digitalize their business, from quote to delivery – a step beyond Smart Factory.

BySoft Suite is comprised of six software product families (Insight, Business, Shop Floor, CAD, CAM, Cell Control) that collectively enable the customer to digitally monitor, manage and make decisions at each stage of their business process. The software suite allows better control and accelerated processes by providing immediate data in one place, giving them the ability to make changes when needed. This capability allows customers to adapt to ever-changing and unpredictable market challenges, and to make business decisions with more comprehensive and centralized data.

New BySoft Suite software allows any company in the sheet metal industry the opportunity to digitalize, regardless of size or current level of digitization. The state-of-the-art technology offers a hybrid solution, combining cloud and on-premise software, which makes it affordable even for small and medium companies. The software can interoperate with third-party business management systems and machines, enabling complete vertical solutions using a single data source. 

“Thanks to BySoft Suite, our customers can advance on their smart factory journey and now have the opportunity to digitalize their entire business, which gives them full control over what is happening and allows flexibility to adapt,” says Alberto Martinez, Chief Digital Officer “We have a complete software suite that interoperates so that customers have comprehensive data in one place. Customers using the software tell us they have decreased order taking time, for example, from three hours to just minutes, and improved accuracy.”

BySoft Suite also promotes our customer’s sustainability efforts. With BySoft, customers will improve energy and resource efficiency, which will result in a reduction of production waste, lower energy needs, and more efficient use of materials.  

Your transformation:

Start optimizing your manufacturing workflow today with a view to digital production, from best-in-class machines and automated production cells right through to a fully integrated smart factory. With Bystronic, this is accomplished step by step, because our scalable solutions grow with your requirements. Our solution experts work together with you to design and implement your solution project. We support and advise you from the initial idea to installation, and right through to the final commissioning. 

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The applications for tubes are very diverse: from automotive and construction to furniture, machine, and equipment manufacturing. With 85 percent of the market potential lies in the small tube segment, the Bystronic ByTube Star 130 fiber laser cutting system offers fabricators and manufacturers an easy entry into tube processing - a growing manufacturing market with a bright future. 

The ByTube Star 130 with 4kW power is the optimal solution for sheet metal processing companies that want to expand their capabilities. The automated system reduces the need for manual interventions, making entry into the field of tube processing particularly easy.

Bystronic's ByTube Star 130 is designed for processing tube profiles with diameters between 3/8 and 5 inches and workpiece lengths up to 28 feet. Tube profiles include round, square, rectangular, oval, standard closed, and open sections. The machine has a loading capacity of 11 pounds per foot. Since 2D cutting accounts for 90 percent of the market, the 2D cutting head can process a large number of customer orders.

Fiber laser ensures speed and flexibility

The ability to process a wide range of material types and thicknesses offers users the flexibility required to manage a diverse range of orders. Additionally, a growing number of fabricators are discovering that laser cutting eliminates the need for sawing and drilling machines as these capabilities can be incorporated within the single fiber laser cutting operation— and considerably faster. Thanks to clean-cutting edges, deburring is also a thing of the past. This not only results in reduced labor costs, but the higher throughput speeds also reduce the costs per part, which creates a huge advantage when competing for the best price.

Software turns beginners into pros

State-of-the-art sheet metal processing is not possible without high-performance software. The powerful Bystronic ByVision Tube user interface is highly intuitive. All the functions relating to tube laser cutting are displayed on a single, 22-inch HD touch screen. Users can visualize realistic 3D part animations, create cutting plans, and monitor production processes with easy-to-operate software-driven menu selections. Even entry-level users without extensive experience can immediately operate the ByTube Star 130. Cutting jobs are set up quickly. Whether small series or large orders, ByVision Tube enables users to move from the incoming order to the delivery of the finished parts in a quick and efficient workflow.

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The new ByBend Smart from Bystronic offers innovative bending technology and numerous new functions at an affordable price. This is its recipe for success. From the very onset, Bystronic designed this press brake to offer a performance package with intelligent functions that enable users to produce parts in high quality and at a low cost.

Enjoy more flexibility

One of the ByBend Smart’s flexibility-enhancing features is the “Daylight and Stroke Expansion”. This feature, which is available with the purchase of a new machine, extends the daylight and stroke from 18.9 to 22.9 inches. The additional 3.94 inches boosts the ByBend Smart’s flexibility by as much as 30 percent because this means that it can use taller tools, enabling users to produce parts with taller bending sides. This is particularly useful when bending boxes and drawers.

Efficiency Booster and Energy Saver options

“Efficiency Booster” option increases not only the bending speed but also the ram retract speed by up to 20 percent over conventional ram retract speeds. “Energy Saver” option: The machine’s main drive is only active when the machine is actually in operation, reducing energy consumption by 40 percent.

Fast Bend M option

The “Fast Bend M Safety System” option consists of a laser safety system that allows the upper beam to move almost all the way to the part that is being processed at the rapid movement speed. The high-precision laser sensor allows the ByBend Smart’s control to reduce the upper beam’s speed from up to 7.0 inches per second (rapid movement speed) to 0.74 inches per second (bending speed) just before reaching the metal sheet. The laser safety system functions like an intelligent brake assistant that permits the machine to move at a higher speed for longer. This offers users a speed advantage of up to 30 percent.

Electric Lifting Aid option

During the bending process, the “Electric Lifting Aid” option increases material handling flexibility and operator ergonomics for large parts up to 220 lbs per unit. The control synchronizes the movement of the lifting aids with the actual bending process and the vertical movement of the upper beam.

Intelligent ByVision Bending control for simple operation

When it comes to bending technology, simple operation is a key factor for many users. Load the bending plan, set up the machine, and start bending – this is precisely what the ByBend Smart and the “ByVision Bending” user interface offer. ByVision Bending is included in the ByBend Smart’s basic version. Operators launch all the bending processes with just a few swipes of the finger on a 22-inch touch screen. ByVision Bending has an extensive database that includes the parameters for all the common types of sheet metal and bending tools. Depending on the material thickness and bending angle, the user interface determines the ideal bending process and suggests suitable tools.

Active Hydraulic Crowning feature

The “Active Hydraulic Crowning” feature ensures high-precision air bending results. This unique function is only available in this form with press brakes from Bystronic. Thanks to extremely accurate pressure sensors, the ByBend Smart’s control system, the ByVision Bending, recognizes the parts' length and position as well as other material properties. The ByVision Bending control enables the ByBend Smart to automatically ensure the ideal distribution of the bending force across the entire bending length without requiring the operator to deal with complicated details. This results in precise and consistent angles across the entire bending length.

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Bridging Performance with Affordability

The NEW 12kW Fiber laser power option for the Bystronic-built/USA-assembled BySmart Fiber laser in combination with the ByTrans Extended material automation delivers outstanding value and unprecedented cutting speeds across thin to medium sheet metal thicknesses. 

The BySmart Fiber's versatile performance package opens up the full potential of Fiber laser cutting. BySmart delivers the following customer benefits:

• Best-in-class Fiber laser technology and total customer support.
• High machine dynamics even when cutting complex contours.
• High-efficiency laser source and fiber optic beam delivery for lower operating costs.
• Dual drive rack and pinion bridge design for fast accelerations.
• Bystronic engineered SSC cutting head.
• Powerful, easy-to-use ByVision Cutting user interface.
• Consistent cutting results across a full range of materials and thicknesses up to 1.125 in.
• BeamShaper option for cutting thick steel plate with oxygen.
• Compatible with all Bystronic automation solutions.
• Available in 3015 (5’x10’) and 4020 (6’x13’) formats with
  3kW, 4kW, 6kW, 8kW, 10kW, or NEW 12kW Fiber laser power.

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Bystronic ByStar Fiber Laser Cutting Machine Redefines High-Performance Innovation with 20kW Fiber 

Speed, precision, flexibility, and versatility: Thanks to the new laser output of 20kW, the ByStar Fiber cuts steel, aluminum, and stainless steel with a thickness from 20 gauge up to 1.500 inch, and brass and copper up to .750 inch with high precision. This power and increased range of materials enable sheet metal processing companies to further expand their production capabilities.

In order to offer sheet metal processing companies even better support in an increasingly competitive environment, Bystronic has advanced into a new dimension of fiber laser cutting with the 20kW ByStar Fiber. The high-end ByStar Fiber laser represents high-precision Bystronic technology, a reliable cutting process even at the highest laser outputs, and with a wide range of applications. 

On average, thanks to the new 20kW laser, the cutting speed of the ByStar Fiber increases by up to 50 percent (when cutting with nitrogen) compared to a 10kW laser source. This means that sheet metal processing companies can benefit from higher productivity with relatively low unit costs. The 20kW laser output now also enables extended applications in stainless steel and aluminum up to 1.5 inch thick and thus offers maximum flexibility for customer orders. Regardless of whether cutting aluminum, non-ferrous metals, or steel, the high-performance Bystronic SSC3 cutting head excels with maximum precision in both thin and thick sheets and profiles. The variable telescoping cutting head automatically adjusts the focal length and spot size, and the focal position is set automatically for each material.

Perfect cuts thanks to the BeamShaper

The BeamShaper function ensures smooth cutting edges and high operational reliability across the entire range of carbon steel materials with fluctuating material characteristics to thicknesses up to 1.125 inch. This function can be selected as an option when purchasing a new 20kW ByStar Fiber or added later as an upgrade. With the BeamShaper, the beam profile is adapted for cutting thicker materials providing for smooth cutting edges and increased speeds in carbon steels from .750 to 1.125 inch.

The new 20kW power level is available for the ByStar Model 3015, 4020, 6225, and 8025. Bystronic’s high-performance flagship utilizes the ByVision Cutting control interface via a 21.5-inch touch screen. Operating the machine is as simple as using a smartphone.

Automation optimizes the material flow

In order to provide an optimal material flow to the high speeds of laser cutting, Bystronic has a wide range of automation solutions available that guarantee maximum machine utilization. The offerings include loading and unloading systems, sorting solutions, and individually configurable storage systems. Based on the existing manufacturing environment and available space, a seamlessly integrated automated laser cutting process is adapted.

At FABTECH Atlanta, the ByStar Fiber 20kW will be shown with the ByTrans Extended automated material handling system.

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With the Mobile Bending Cell, Bystronic takes the next evolutionary step in the field of bending. There is now a mobile automation module for the Xpert 40 and its larger counterpart, the Xpert 80 press brake. The result is a compact solution for automated as well as manual bending.

Advanced machine design delivers high levels of dynamics. ByMotion drive control ensures a finely tuned interplay between speed, precision, and power. This bending system is unique and it provides users with high application versatility. Users can process large lots with the automated bending cell; they can also bend small lots or individual parts manually when necessary. Just plug in and start bending.

Users can set up the robotic system on the Mobile Bending Cell 40/80 in just a few minutes. Simply roll the automation unit in front of the press brake. With a few simple steps, the robotic system at the center of the Mobile Bending Cell automatically aligns itself with the press brake. The Xpert 40/80 offers flexible tool selection and integrated tool storage and is movable to where it is needed when it is needed.

With the Mobile Bending Cell, Bystronic takes the next evolutionary step in the field of bending: a compact solution for automated and manual bending that supports today’s fluctuating lot sizes and varying part complexities

Benefits

• Control is seamlessly integrated into the press brake user interface.
• Manual bending of small lot sizes and individual parts by day.Automated bending of large lot sizes by night.
• High-speed 6-axis back gauge control and multi-axis ram control.
• Automatic tool clamping, interference checking, and tool overload protection.
• Intuitive ByVision Bending interface with 22 in.HD touch screen
• Convenient and adaptable ergonomic workspace is adjustable and retractable as needed.
• Set up and operate in virtually any environment in just a few minutes.
• Mobile Bending Cell automatically aligns itself with the press brake. Just plug in and start bending.

Experience Center and Bystronic Smart Factory

The vision of the Smart Factory is now a reality for customers of Bystronic. With its new Competence Center showroom and Manufacturing Center near Chicago, Bystronic is now demonstrating the future of sheet metal processing to customers in the U.S. Bystronic will be displaying its entire range of sheet metal processing solutions: the latest technologies for laser cutting, integrated automation, and storage solutions, flexible bending systems, tube, and profile processing solutions, a software landscape that covers the entire sheet metal processing chain, smart services, and offering customized live demonstrations for customers. To learn more, email bystronic.us@bystronic.com.