Sheet metal bending revolution! Xi 'ao Industrial Intelligent Workstation Debuted at 2025 Shanghai Industry Expo.

Traditional sheet metal bending is inefficient, relying on skilled workers, and it is difficult to adapt to the needs of small-batch and multi-batch production. Innovative solutions will be ushered in this year's Industrial Fair.

The 25th China International Industry Fair will be held in the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Shanghai) from September 23 to 27, 2025. The theme of this year's Industrial Fair is "Industry Gathering Energy and New Quality Leading", with a planned exhibition area of 300,000 square meters and 2,600 exhibitors from 28 countries and regions around the world.

Shanghai Xi 'ao Industrial Automation Equipment Co., Ltd. will make a stunning appearance with its innovative product, the intelligent bending robot workstation for sheet metal, at this industrial feast of CNC Machine Tools and Metal Processing Exhibition (MWCS), which will bring a revolutionary breakthrough in small-batch and multi-batch intelligent bending solutions to the industry.

01 exhibition feast, a grand meeting in the field of metal processing

As one of the core professional exhibitions of China Industry Fair, the exhibition of CNC machine tools and metalworking (MWCS) has always been the focus of the industry. The exhibition covers an area of 80,000 square meters and has more than 600 exhibitors.

The exhibition focuses on the fields of metal cutting technology, sheet metal, stamping and forming technology, and is an ideal platform for enterprises in the metal processing industry to display the latest technologies and products.

The professional audience covers automobile, molds, industrial parts, robots, automation, electronic/information communication, metal products, rail transit, aerospace and other user industries, providing exhibitors with valuable opportunities to communicate face-to-face with professional buyers in the industry.

Traditional bending, the triple challenge faced by the industry.

In the field of sheet metal processing, the traditional bending process is facing severe challenges and has become an invisible bottleneck restricting the development of many enterprises.

Low programming efficiency is the primary problem. Traditional bending relies on manual online programming, and a single part needs as many as 21 steps, and complex parts (15 bends) take longer, which leads to idle machine tools and waste of production capacity.

The lack of process stability is also disturbing. Manual operation is easily affected by fatigue, the positioning accuracy of workpiece fluctuates greatly, and the bending angle deviation is frequent; Large pieces need multi-person cooperation, which raises labor costs and safety risks.

Most importantly, the traditional mode is difficult to meet the needs of flexible production. Under the trend of multi-variety and small batch, frequent product switching requires reprogramming and debugging, and it is difficult to reuse process knowledge in traditional mode, which slows down the production pace.

Breakthrough solution of Xi 'ao innovation and intelligent bending.

In view of the pain points in these industries, Shanghai Xi 'ao Industrial Automation Equipment Co., Ltd. launched the intelligent sheet metal bending robot workstation, which brought two revolutionary innovations:

Small batch and multi-batch intelligent bending solutions enable enterprises to quickly respond to changing customer needs and greatly improve their customization capabilities. This scheme supports enterprises to customize highly personalized products according to customers' needs and realize the production of mass customized products.

The innovation of programming-free architecture has completely changed the traditional operation mode. Through the characteristics of visual development and reuse of prefabricated components, enterprises can quickly build smart factory scenes that meet their own needs without investing huge sums of money and professional development teams.

Leading technology, four core advantages of Xi 'ao workstation.

Xi 'ao Industrial's intelligent sheet metal bending robot workstation integrates many advanced technologies, bringing four core advantages to the enterprise:

Excellent production efficiency. Similar technical solutions can improve the programming efficiency several times, and some enterprises feedback that "the original 6-hour programming volume is now completed in 20 minutes, and the workshop will no longer wait for the program!"

Excellent precision control. Xi 'ao system realizes real-time closed-loop control of the precision of the bending process. Through synchronous following, automatic edge finding and deformation compensation, the bending precision of sheet metal parts is significantly improved.

Unprecedented flexible production capacity. The solution supports rapid product configuration, production switching, and optimization of production processes, so that it can quickly respond to changes in customer needs.

Significantly lowered technical threshold. Through the characteristics of visual development and reuse of prefabricated components, enterprises can quickly build smart factory scenes that meet their own needs without a professional development team.

Intelligent factory, Xi 'ao's leading manufacturing concept.

Xi 'ao Industrial's own production practice fully embodies the leading concept of intelligent factory. The company uses a low-code platform to realize the rapid landing of smart factory scenes, and quickly connects PLC, CNC machine tools, robots, sensors and other equipment in the workshop through equipment interconnection and real-time monitoring scenes to build a real-time monitoring system.

In the aspect of production execution and quality traceability, a production execution system (MES) is built by using the process engine of low code platform to track the flow status of each product in real time.

More importantly, Xi 'ao realized the transition from "experience-driven" to "data-driven" decision-making mode. The data kanban provided by the platform can provide evidence for decision-making, and automatically recommend the optimal scheduling scheme according to the equipment load and material inventory data, instead of manual Excel scheduling.

Future prospect and development trend of sheet metal bending

With the further development of intelligent and personalized manufacturing industry, sheet metal bending technology will also usher in new changes. Xi 'ao Industrial's innovative solutions just meet the development needs of the future manufacturing industry.

The self-learning technology of multimodal fusion will become the trend. Similar to other advanced schemes, Xi 'ao technology introduces the combination of haptic system and visual system to achieve the purpose of adapting to the complexity of the environment, sensing the characteristics of the material itself and the wide range of adaptation.

The in-depth application of industrial Internet technology will be further deepened. In the future, sheet metal bending will be more deeply integrated with industrial internet technology to realize the digitalization of the whole business process from customer ordering to manufacturing.

Small batch and multi-batch production capacity will become the industry standard. The increasing demand for customized products in the market makes enterprises have to master the ability to transform to personalized customization.

In September this year, this innovative technology of Xi 'ao Industry will become the focus of attention of many manufacturing enterprises at the Industrial Fair held by Shanghai National Convention and Exhibition Center.

Its intelligent sheet metal bending robot workstation not only shows the advanced nature of the technology itself, but also represents the trend of flexible, intelligent and digital manufacturing in the future.

Visitors can not only witness the live demonstration of this workstation to efficiently handle multi-variety and small-batch sheet metal bending tasks, but also have in-depth exchanges with Xi 'ao technical experts to explore the intelligent upgrade path suitable for their own enterprises.

This grand event will be held in the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Shanghai) from September 23 to 27, 2025. For all enterprises committed to improving the efficiency and quality of sheet metal processing, this is undoubtedly an opportunity to learn and communicate.