Busbar Machines BMF Series

High-end bending machine for processing flat wire

CNC Bending Machines Specifically for Flat Wire
Producing modern drive technologies of the kind used in hybrid and electric vehicles requires new components that can be manufactured economically. Conductive components (busbars) are of particular importance in this case. They are needed to ensure safe and reliable power transmission between individual battery modules and the electric motors.

With the CNC-controlled BMF 60, WAFIOS has developed a completely new bending machine for the production of profiled parts and busbars. State-of-the-art patent-pending technologies have been incorporated in order to bend complex parts with the tightest of radii and distortions. The process steps involved are bending, cutting, insulation stripping, and twisting.

Machine comparison BMF Series:
- Maximum precision, even when processing the very smallest bending radii with minimum bending distances, thanks to a specially designed bending tool (patent-pending)
- The cutting unit, designed for cutting off flat wire, achieves the very best in cutting quality, especially when it comes to working with busbars (patent-pending)
- Unique twisting unit enables the production of very complicated bending geometries and an in-process change of bending levels (known as twisting; patent-pending)
- Maximum productivity as insulation stripping process via laser is fully integrated in the production process (patent-pending)
- High degree of freedom during the insulation stripping process, enabling flexible positioning of contact points
- Machine-independent programming station and new simulation software for flat wire enable feasibility tests directly at the customer’s site