Glen Dimplex New Zealand is part of the Glen Dimplex Group which was founded in 1973 and considered the world’s largest electrical heating business holding significant market positions in the domestic appliance industry worldwide. With an annual turnover of NZ$3.6 Billion, the Group employs over 10,000 people.
As industry 4.0 has become a competitive requirement Glen Dimplex choose to upgrade to LVD Press Brakes and a Phoenix laser cutter to sync with Cadman Jobs and their existing ERP system. The ERP system communicates with CADMAN-SDI, which imports drawing formats and feeds the data back into the ERP system to help calculate costs. ERP then automatically provides an accurate quotation, based on the actual cutting times of the machine.
With CADMAN-JOBS you can run through the status of every order, The delivery date for the piece in both its 2D form and 3D form is, of course, top priority. The production operator can filter data in various ways in order to bundle jobs.
The CADMAN suite has increased returns by:
After cutting, the pieces are moved to the machine table or unloading pallet for sorting. LVD has provided a sorting function for this operation, which is controlled from a tablet, the Touch-i4. The tablet provides information on the various production orders in the nesting, i.e., the number of pieces, the position in the nesting, and the following operation.
Our business actually started back in the garage. I became involved in it in ’98. Some business back then was single shift, two cutting machines, a couple of old magic eyes and basically from there, business has grown steadily since.
Easy-Form® precision press brakes are based upon LVD’s enormously successful PPEB Series equipped with state-of-the-art hydraulics and electronics and are offered in multi-axis configurations to suit a broad range of bending applications.
Read the press release and told my son Steve it would be a great machine for us, so we decided on the spot and ordered one.