SCM shines at home ground in Milan:
SCM was once again a key player at the recently held Xylexpo 2022, marking a special occasion for the Italian Group as it celebrates 70 years of innovation and success within the woodworking sector.
Occupying an innovative 2,000 sq. m. multimedia stand, SCM recorded a huge number of visitors, including industry professionals, experts, and woodworking schools, presenting
great opportunities in terms of orders, negotiations, and contacts.
SCM offered its vision of a digital, connected, and integrated production process – a Digital Factory model that was also recognised at the Xylexpo Innovation Awards. As such, it supports the customer with the most complex challenges of mass customisation, making the processes faster and more sustainable, thus minimising costs, consumption and waste, as well as simplifying management. The Smart&Human Factory is flexible and automated with modular cells and was on offer for the first time in two distinct versions – for industry and for joineries.
Accompanying both processes is a rich, integrated software offering, with MES and digital services on display in the ‘Digital Integrated Woodworking Process’ area. Software and services that support the customer at each stage – data preparation, planning, production, monitoring and after-sales assistance – by increasing efficiency and connecting both office and factory.
One such notable highlight was the updated CAD/CAM office programming software for the preparation of data or Maestro CNC machining centres, the 3D Maestro pro view simulator for machining panels and solid wood, and the Maestro beam&wall for timber construction.
For planning, optimisation and production control, the new MES Maestro easyFlow is the plug&play solution integrated with all SCM software and machines, combined with Smart&Human Factory for both industry and joineries, to handle programming, management and 4.0 interconnection of the entire production flow.
Newly introduced cutting optimisers include Maestro optiwise for the gabbiani single blade and angular beam saws, which ensures the best cuts are achieved with the minimum amount of waste, for both large and small production batches. Furthermore, it offers the best solution in terms of waste, time-saving and costs, along with a user experience that’s even simpler and more efficient.
Maximum performance is also guaranteed thanks to SCM’s Thundercut mobile app – the only optimiser-sequencer that provides the operator with a step-by-step guide to inserting a panel into the machine and making the cut. It ensures this operation is carried out with optimum safety, regardless of operator skill level.
Maestro Power TMS – the software that simplifies and optimises tool management within solid wood CNC machining centre warehouses – also made its debut at Xylexpo. Depending on the kind of machining required, the software operates to maximise the warehouse’s capacity and speed up tool change according to the production mix. More than 100 tools are readily available, along with a reduction in machining time and an increase in productivity.
The HMI software and Maestro active line supervisors have also been updated for an even simpler, optimal control and interaction with all SCM machines. To support the production monitoring stages, machine maintenance and after-sales services – digital services enabled by the IoT Maestro connect platform – have also been further enhanced. The aim is to guarantee maximum return on the machines and plants in conjunction with constant support from SCM technicians. Nowadays, this IoT platform integrates into the ‘Woodworking made Izy’ project led by the foremost machinery manufacturers to offer a common language and total integration of customers’ machines.
Smart&Human Factory for the Furniture Industry
The flexible integrated line demonstrated produces around 400 furniture parts per shift and shows two alternative flows for manufacturers of assembled or kit furniture.
This is just one of many configurations that the Smart&Human Factory can assume based on specific client demands. The cells are integrated with articulated robots and interconnected by unmanned AMR shuttles.
Making its mark in the beam saw arena was the new flexible gabbiani gt2 cell with articulated robot for automatic loading and unloading. It optimises the shifts and combines
‘batch 1’ machining requirements with large volume production. The cell, enhanced by the new Maestro optiwise optimiser, has been designed for use with or without an
operator, permitting the immediate and automatic passage between one mode and another. In automatic mode with robot, it can be used without shift restrictions, relieving the operator of unnecessary work that’s considered low added value. In manual mode, even the finest, most delicate and smallest materials are handled with extreme ease.
In the edgebanding arena, SCM offered a new model of stefani cell E flexible cell, which combines numerous advantages as seen on the stefani x industrial edgebander, in terms of productivity and machining quality, owing to a new Fastback 27 automatic panel return system. With this device, moving panels loaded onto the edgebander are controlled automatically and flexibly, both long- and cross-ways. This ensures the operator receives maximum support in terms of controlling the entire edgebanding cycle.
The cell, integrated by Maestro active edge HMI software for a simple, intuitive control, is designed for intensive use over several shifts, with a speed of 25m/min. Thanks
to AirFusion+ technology, an ideal edge application is guaranteed, without the use of glue, as well as outstanding machining quality even on the most delicate, state-of-the-art
materials, due to the electronic controls.
The morbidelli cx220 drilling and dowelling flexible cell – a completely new entry – creates all components required for a piece of furniture more efficiently, even pieces that are
completely different from their counterparts. The new cell produces a panel per minute, in excess of 400 panels per shift, with a single operator in just 50 sq. m. Its exclusive layout
permits two possible uses: without operator supervision, due to an integrated robot on the rear side, which performs all the loading and unloading operations in complete
autonomy for a continuous production cycle; or with partial operator supervision, who, in complete safety, can load and unload panels at the front of the cell while the robot continues to machine on the opposite side.
The process on display at Xlyexpo continued into the assembly area with the action p clamp, whose automatic setting means that all furniture components can be assembled with precision and simplicity. It’s rounded off with a new range of cut c 200 punching machines for the production of four made-to-measure boxes per minute and pack c100 for the automatic closure of pre-punched cardboard box lids using hot-melt glue.
Smart&Human Factory for Joineries
Also taking centre stage at Xylexpo was an integratedvcell for flexible and customised production from raw material to finished piece of furniture. As well as MES Maestro easyFlow, the first step towards ideal office-factory integration, the cell acquires a further advantage from the positive aspects of the machines involved:
• Invincibile si x circular saw enhanced by the SCM Thundercut cutting optimiser-sequencer.
• Startech cn plus CNC drilling centre, to produce furniture parts easily and flexibly without
repositioning tools and without the need for operator intervention.
• Top performing me 40tr edgebander, thanks to a new rounding unit, which allows you to achieve excellent quality finished products, without further machining.
Three machines, for a perfect and unique ‘orchestrated’ workflow, which dramatically reduces machining time and margins of error.
New Introductions
SCM boasts the largest industry range and at Xylexpo, exhibited standalone solutions and integrated processes for every kind of production requirement.
Edgebanding
The new olimpic 500 offers excellent machining versatility in a limited footprint with constant high quality standards. The edgebander has a two-motor rounding unit and new control system for even more efficient production. Other advantages include the option to machine two real radii using all units, panels up to 60mm wide, perform a simple and automatic glue change with the SGP-E pot and even more user-friendly operation with HMI Maestro active edge software and the new 15in eye-S console. Stefani sbx also took centre stage live from the SCM Technology Center in Thiene. The new squaring-edgebanding machine offers SCM’s most advanced technological innovations within this sector, including Servo electronic units among other solutions for high productivity levels and excellent performance with every machining.
SCM Surface Technologies
The integrated offering of dmc technologies for sanding, sergiani 3d form for ennobling three-dimensional panels, and superfici for finishing, has been further enhanced with new devices and models to satisfy all process and end-product type requirements to achieve sophisticated finishing solutions. New entries on display for sanding not only permit original, high-quality applications but also increase productivity and efficiency, along with an improved user experience.
The dmc system t2 – a flexible and modular numeric control calibrating/sanding centre – appears in a completely new light: the innovative laser unit, which made its global
debut at Xylexpo, is particularly well-suited to the wooden floor super finish, solid wood parts, MDF panel decorating and fibre cement finishes.
Also highlighted was the new planetary unit within the dmc eurosystem, which is designed to perform every calibrating, sanding, brushing and structuring operation possible.
And last but not least, the new ‘eye-S’ control panel for dmc sd and dmc euro system sanders which, thanks to HMI Maestro active sand, further enhances the machines’ performance and offers an even more advanced look and feel.
Among the new entries for finishing, the superfici compact xl sprayer for high production capacity offers a considerable energy saving, a more efficient paint recovery system and an advanced recirculation of air volume, as well as a completely new design. Also on display was a UV led polymerisation system with several UV monochromatic sources of various
Solid wood solutions were rounded off with the automatic superset nt throughfeed moulder complete with high- efficiency motors, which guarantee a considerable benefit in terms of energy saving; the balestrini idea CNC machining centre for tables and chairs; and the automatic Balestrini pico md tenoner-mortiser, which is ideal for creating mitre door joints.
Joinery Machines
Also making its debut at Xylexpo was the startech cn k compact three-axis machining centre, which is ideal for any kind of routing, decoration, scoring, creation of signs and 3D model prototype. The only one in its category to have a 2.4kW electro-spindle, the machine, with integral cabin, guarantees operator protection and a clean working environment. It’s also very easy to program thanks to the virtual ‘open’ Human-Machine Interface for the importing of G-code from any kind of CAD/CAM software. Also highlighted were the new eye-S compact touch controls on edgebanders and the exclusive ‘Blade Off ’ technological solution – XIA winner – which is applied to circular saws and fitted with exclusive smart sensors to facilitate completely safe machining.
Timber Construction
SCM continues to expand its industry solutions, including the new area x five-axis CNC machining centre with mobile gantry structure, which is designed for manufacturers of X-lam/CLT panels and curved laminate beams. Excellent reliability and very high machining quality lead to optimised production times and finished parts are produced ready for assembly on site. Also on show was version 3.0 of the Maestro beam&wall proprietary software, which is designed to provide a better response to the demands for workflow optimisation and greater production flexibility in the machining of structura parts. For X-lam/CLT wall panel sanding comes a new offering – the dmc system xl – a highly modular sanding-calibrating machine capable of working walls up to 3,700mm wide and 500 mm thick.
Squaring, Tenoning and Profiling
Xylexpo visitors also had the opportunity to have a closer look at the latest celaschi products. In particular, for the production of both traditional and gradient board (chevron) wooden floors, the new celaschi tmc transversal tenoner with automatic loading system. Versatile and precise, it offers the utmost in terms of technical solutions for line profiling of boards with different gradients. Celaschi innovations also included the creation of Threespine® click panels and drawer production, with the option of machining pieces measuring less than 60 mm wide.
