FMS Flexible Manufacturing Systems
Integrated flexible manufacturing systems for smart, lights-out sheet metal production
Salvagnini FMS combine punching, cutting, and bending with modular automation, software, and robotics to deliver end-to-end, automatic sheet metal processing with full traceability and minimal WIP. From the first S4+P4 FMS line introduced in 1979 to today’s FSL Flexible Smart Line and FSJ Flexible Smart Job Shop layouts, these systems turn sheet packs into finished panels and products without operator intervention, cutting lead times while stabilizing quality and costs.
Smart factories for automated sheet metal fabrication
Salvagnini offers different FMS configurations. FSL Flexible Smart Line scales from classic line operation to dynamic strategies so punching, sorting, and bending remain synchronized even as jobs, formats, or priorities change. This keeps productivity high while minimizing idle time and intermediate handling. FSJ Flexible Smart Job Shop brings the same concept to stand-alone machines, able to process sheet metal autonomously or in cooperative mode to dynamically tackle modern market challenges. As a result, Salvagnini FMS deliver a proven, lights-out approach to automated sheet metal fabrication that overcomes today’s production constraints, from labor shortages and skill variability to volatile mix, tight lead times, rising energy costs, and limited floor space.
Product range
Simply the line. Since 1979, it is the most efficient flexible manufacturing system on the market for sheet metal processing.
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The Flexible Smart Job Shop (FSJ) is a combination of advanced technologies, software, artificial intelligence and vision (AI), robotic and automation solutions for dynamically facing the challenges of the modern market.
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Flexible automation
Salvagnini’s flexible production systems turn packs of sheet metal into a wide variety of products without operator intervention.
By optimizing individual production steps, they eliminate WIP and ensure traceability, minimizing activities with low added value and maximizing the efficiency of the entire process.
Engineering the future, every day
The world’s first flexible production system for sheet metal processing, a S4+P4 line, combines a S4 punching machine and a P4 panel bender, was presented by Salvagnini at the Hanover exhibition in 1979.
The drive of the 4.0 paradigm, the evolution of digital technologies and the growth of AI models have made it possible to evolve the concepts of the cell, factory and line giving new outlook and identity to the world of FMS.
Software
Industry has changed: flexibility and efficiency are fundamental requirements for managing increasingly smaller batches or rapid item turnover rate. And developments in technology have in some way upset the balance between workloads, with increasingly fast systems which however need to be guided by more and more specific machine programs, the generation of which is increasingly time-consuming. This is why software is increasingly crucial to improving the efficiency of machinery.
Salvagnini’s IoT solution, increases the global efficiency of the FMS. LINKS allows real-time monitoring of the machine’s performance and independent analysis.
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