An industrial installation having a spatial and functional organization for automating flows of materials, the installation comprising:
- a compact bending cell;
- an automated magazine;
- a press brake;
- a robot;
- a track on which a carriage supporting the robot moves;
- a system for dropping off and retrieving parts during operation;
- a mechanical or optical system for controlling indexing of parts to be bent;
- a set of racks for bending tools comprising punches and dies;
- at least one attachment device for grippers;
- a control console;
- a supply area for parts to be bent and an area for dropping off the parts after bending;
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- at least one of:
- a first automated conveyor configured to convey parts to be bent on a pallet from the automated magazine to a dedicated location of the compact bending cell, via the supply area;
- a second automated conveyor configured to remove bent parts outside the compact bending cell and store them in a dedicated location of the automated magazine, via a drop off area;
- a third automated conveyor configured to remove emptied pallets emptied outside the compact bending cell and move the emptied pallets to a dedicated location of the automated magazine;
- a fourth automated conveyor configured to convey into the compact bending cell, to a dedicated location, empty pallets for receiving bent parts from the automated magazine,
- wherein the robot is configured to perform successive operations of placing one or several bending tools in the press brake, connecting to one of the grippers arranged on one of the attachment devices, conveying a flat part into the press brake from the supply area, and performing manipulations for carrying out bending operations,
- wherein the automated magazine comprises a plurality of storage towers configured to at least one of:
- store, in an enclosure of the compact bending cell, at configurable locations, bending tools for of operation of the compact bending cell without assistance for a determined period of time;
- store, in the enclosure of the compact bending cell, at configurable locations, grippers for manipulation of parts to be bent and operation of the compact bending cell for a determined period of time;
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- be used as palletizing and movement interface means that are either conveyed into the compact bending cell or removed from the compact bending cell, and that increase a presence of a quantity of elements for performing operations carried out by the robot, the elements comprising at least one of:
- standard bending tools, special bending tools, or bending tools reserved for exclusive use by a customer;
- order organizers;
- universal or specific grippers;
- accessories configured to at least one of optimize stacking of complex bent parts and protect breakable parts;
- containers for bulk drop off of compact parts;
- palletizing systems for at least one of supplying the compact bending cell with parts to be bent or receiving bent parts, mixed palletizing systems to handle, on a same movement interface, the parts to be bent, such same parts after bending, and any accessories for operations to be carried out on the parts;
- and standard or special tools for storage in the automated magazine and shareable among several compact bending cells,
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- wherein an axis of the track on which the robot is configured to move is parallel to both a front face of the press brake and an outer face, on a cell side, of the automated magazine, the axis of the track being approximately equidistant from each of the faces.