Fabricator combines technologies to bend, measure multidimensional tubing

摘要

Stirling Energy Systems, Seottsdale, Ariz., a manufacturer of systems for the solar power industry, approached Harco Metal Products about making a component that requires a series of short, small-diameter tubes installed in a unique pattern. Because the bent tubes must have a continuously changing radius, the fabricator would need a machine capable of making free-form, multidimensional bends. It also would need a measurement system that could accurately evaluate such bends.