Q-Fin Quality Finishing Machines helps companies that are ready to get started with Industry 4.0. Companies that want to stand out from the rest. The Dutch machine builder develops, builds and delivers solutions for deburring, rounding and finishing metal sheet metal parts.
Q-Fin's deburring machines are specifically designed to deliver precision, quality and efficiency, with the ultimate goal of maximizing customer output. To make this happen, they also provide efficient handling, insight into performance and high reliability. Anton Bax, owner of Q-Fin Quality Finishing Machines: "Innovation is in our blood. Every day our team works to ensure that our machines work better and faster." Innovation is an indispensable pillar, he stresses, constant renewal is what customers expect from him and his team. "Pushing the Edge," as Bax calls it. That's why they set to work in Bergeijk, not only to meet market expectations, but above all to exceed them.
These included a growing demand for a 2+ mm radius on products up to 1,200 mm wide, and the desire for a directionless finish. Q-Fin deliberately factored this demand into the development of an all-in-one machine, the first units of which have now been installed at customers in the Netherlands and Germany.
In the SER1200 Multibrush, twenty motors control a total of five machining stations. This leads to an automated process for each application. Not only deburring, but if applicable also oxide removal, rounding to a radius of two millimeters, and application of the desired finish, directionless or line ground. According to Bax, this makes the SER1200 a complete machine that requires very little work from the operator. "The operator can pull a production sheet from the ERP system, scan the corresponding QR code and use it to set up the program. Almost everything is then automated: each operation is pre-programmed with its own parameters, the machine calibrates itself."
Behind the Q-Fin headquarters in Bergeijk, the new building for the new Q-Fin Handling Solutions department is in full swing. Once this second building is completed, the company will present various setups here that will automate the handling of machine deburring, rounding and finishing of sheet metal parts. Q-Fin's machines are already fully prepared for this. The software is so advanced that all stations can be remotely controlled and brush wear can be compensated for.
Q-Fin Handling Solutions was developed with the goal of unburdening users. "We would like to offer total solutions for picking up sheet metal parts, deburring, rounding and finishing them in the machine and then laying them down again," Bax said.
To excel even further in automation, in addition to devices such as robots, turning stations, return conveyors and lifting aids, it is necessary to integrate the deburring process and handling into the customer's production process by software. A prerequisite for this is that the machines can be fully software configured. The Q-Fin machines are already prepared for this and ready for Industrie 4.0.
Together with Motivate from Tilburg, Q-Fin developed the Qonnect+ platform. This enables a link between the machines and all common ERP packages, so that the machines can be controlled from ERP. Qonnect+ can also be linked to all other software and hardware systems in production, such as AGVs that deliver and transport the sheet metal parts. Bax: "Our solutions will function reliably. We already know that. Now it's up to the customers to define in their ERP system the programs our machines need to run." In short, Q-Fin is ready for the future and is happy to invite potential customers to Bergeijk to come and test it for themselves.
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