Global Business Awards 2020

Built on industry, competency and service, Salvagnini has been a leader in the design, manufacture, selling and servicing of up-to-the-minute modular and flexible high-performance machinery systems in North America since 1963. Operating in five manufacturing plants, twenty- three operational sites and thirty-five service centers across America, Canada and Mexico, Salvagnini boasts unparalleled insight into innovative solutions in its field. As the firm celebrates success at the Global Business Awards 2020, we took a closer look at this giant of the North American Sheet Metal Fabrication industry. Best Sheet Metal Fabrication Company - North America Jul20535 Salvagnini is the North American titan of sheet metal fabrication, providing innovation in the field of machine tools and automation for flexible sheet metal processing. The firm uses the most expedient technologies in smart systems such as punching and shearing machines, fiber laser systems, press-brakes, integrated FMS/FMC, automatic storage systems and panel benders. These are combined with Salvagnini’s handling automation devices and proprietary software, that are in perfect cohesion with their Industry 4.0 compliant solutions, a term used to indicate cyber-physical systems (CPS) and digital technologies, such as the Cloud, that are used to improve work conditions and increase productivity of plants. With experience in designing, manufacturing, selling and servicing modular and flexible high-performance machinery and systems that dates to 1963, Salvagnini America was opened in Hamilton, Ohio in 1989. The site was built to produce sheet metal processing systems and provide customer service and aftermarket care for its extensive repertoire of services that include punching, shearing, conveyor and parts manipulation, automatic panel bending. Meanwhile, their Canada headquarters based in Ontario, in the heart of Canada’s principal manufacturing region, is Canada’s customer resource center for machine centers, field service and spare parts. In Apodaca, Mexico, Salvagnini has established a center in a similarly prime location that provides same-day field support and rapid part replacement to clients within appliance, electronics, lighting and many industries besides. From these three principal sites, Salvagnini has carried out more than 7,000 installations across seventy-six countries since the organization’s inception. Operating with innovation, competency and service at the heart of every element of its business activity, Salvagnini has carefully cultivated a remarkable global presence that extends from North America to thirty-five different countries in which the Salvagnini Group not only offers direct customer service, but also leads the way in automation, offering scalable solutions that can be tailored to the needs of a client. Carrying out all business activity in accordance with the company’s P.A.R.T – Precision, Automation, Reliability, Technology – model, Salvagnini can methodically assist clients towards their desired outcome. This means that all Salvagnini products and services guarantee unparalleled precision to ensure complete customer satisfaction, centering around automation as a major facilitator of efficiency and safety in the modern workplace. They also boast unmatched reliability meaning clients can focus on their priorities without worrying whether the machine is doing its job which, thanks to the use of the latest and most cutting-edge technology, is completely assured. The P.A.R.T principles have been implemented in their market-leading panel bender, a concept designed, built and introduced as the first of its kind by Guido Salvagnini in 1977. At the time, the production of large parts was being hampered by tooling and machines that required laborious manual setup. Salvagnini listened to the call of manufacturers and fabricators who were seeking a flexible, automated solution, and using their feedback, engineered the P4 panel bender, enabling the adoption of an alternative to hard tooling, roll forming and manual press brakes. Today, job shops are being faced with different challenges, such as skills gaps, the implementation of Industry 4.0 and 5.0 initiatives and the new operation parameters that have been brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. Salvagnini’s P2 and P4 panel bender series are proving just as vital in resolving these issues as they did in 1977, in particular for their use of technology that is suited to low-to-medium batch sizes and single piece flow or kit production. It also facilitates the meeting of stringent quality standards when dealing with a diverse range of products, which includes everything from steel furniture and elevators to commercial fast food kitchens and HVAC equipment. Despite the broad spectrum of end uses for the P2 and P4 series, sheet metal manufacturers are all united in their efforts to combat loss of efficiency and performance due to over-production of work-in-progress (WIP). Traditional equipment that requires lengthy setup times creates WIP, often leaving factories overloaded with a mixture of finished and unfinished parts. These large stockpiles often go hand in hand with poor quality products and a lack of skilled personnel and reliability. Panel benders present the ideal resolution to such issues. One recent convert made the switch to a panel bending operation when they realized they were having to produce a hundred components just to achieve sixty good, usable parts. Since making the change and investing in an automated panel bender, the company has seen exponential growth, gaining back its competitive edge and returning to their position as leader of their sector. Differing from conventional bending methods in terms of throughput, the integration of panel benders into a workflow means adopting a method that assists in the efficient bending of