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The support for leather goods industry is the natural
evolution of Atom business, which began about 60 years ago with machines
designed for the footwear industry.
Atom manufactures a lot of machines that can be
conveniently used in different stages of the leathergoods production. Our
machines can help you in manufacture bags, suitcases, belts, wallets and thousand of
other leathergoods items.
Along the same lines, we can provide solutions for
industries that manufacturer products with other materials including leather.
Examples of these may be diaries and photo-albums. Atom cutting systems are able
to cut leather parts as well as paper ones taking care also of the
creasing. For this reason Atom cutting systems can provide a complete
solution for all the parts of the product.
Our systems are currently used to cut several kind of
materials commonly used in leathergoods products, for example textiles,
cardboard for stuffings and elasticised materials. Our experts are always ready
to help you in choosing the best solution for your business, however here you
can find some rough guidelines to start thinking about your next cutting system.
Oscillating-knife cutting tables:
they are very precise and flexible, being dieless and able to cut almost any
material they are a complete solution for fast prototyping and production of
small and medium batches.
The shapes can be manually placed by the operator using
our interactive nesting system or automatically nested by our sophisticated
software, able to deal with material defects, quality areas and the production
constraints commonly found in leather goods manufacturing.
Most tables can achieve huge time savings by cutting in a
portion of the table while the operator unloads previously cut parts, deploys
the next hide and prepares the next nesting.
Our lineup includes both flat-surface and inclined-surface
cutting tables to offer to our customers the widest range of options to choose
from.
Waterjet cutting systems:
speed, precision and flexibility are the winning points of these machines. Our
waterjets are used by some of the most renowned brands in the leather goods
industry.
Mobile beam presses: they
can easily cut huge shapes or multiple dies at once, providing remarkable time
savings. They can be equipped with an automatic feeding device suitable for
synthetic materials.
Traditional and swing-arm presses:
good productivity with a limited investment.
Atom produces other machines that handle some production
steps commonly found in this industry. You can look at our splitting machines,
stripes cutters, and skiving machines (with the ability of making the
initial cutting of the edge. The latter are used mostly to produce belts
or shoulder belts for bags.
Defect marking systems:
Atom developed the "Intelliview" for off-line acquisition of hides contours and
defects. The Intelliview unit is a table that is equipped with cameras and
projectors which allow an operator to input a hide shape into the nesting system
with all of the quality areas and defects defined. This system is designed with
the latest devices to provide a user friendly environment for this process.
Working off-line this step can be handled at any time, and even in a place
different from the cutting premises. Some cutting tables are equipped with a
digital camera and the software needed to allow automatic contours acquisition
and computer-assisted defects and quality areas marking. Intelliview can be
conveniently used to load material data into "CUTWEB", our on-line nesting
management system so that it is possible to remotely view hides data and pick
the best batches for any job. This can be an interesting option for tanneries,
which can enrich their product with services gaining thus competitive
advantages. You can read more about this topic in this case study...
Atom has developed a sophisticated automatic nesting
system that can be configured to work in different modes:
- Manual interactive nesting on the cutting table;
- Fully automated nesting on the table;
- Off-line nesting (that is calculated before the
material is actually deployed on the cutting machine);
- Web-based nesting service: Atom is proud to propose
this innovative working model: from any web-connected pc, without installing
additional software, it is possible to manage and monitor nesting and cutting,
being charged for actual usage only. Doing so there is not the initial
investment usually tied to traditional off-line nesting software. You can read
more about on-line nesting services and CUTWEB here.
Automatic nesting allows time and material savings, with
the additional bonus of precise estimation of times and costs.
The nesting results are not dependent by operator skills,
so the work of cutting operators can be organized with more flexibility and a
de-skilling of the workers becomes possible, thus achieving further savings.
Our nesting programs are custom-made to fit the special
needs of several industries, leather goods of course is among them.
Our experience teaches us which are the typical needs and
production constraints of this industry. For these reasons our nesting knows how
to handle shades and other leather features, allows the setting of precise
constraints about parts rotations, direction and grouping. Moreover we are
always improving it to meet the needs of the most demanding customers. Some of
the finest leather goods brands use Atom cutting system powered by our software,
able to deal with the most complex and expensive hides being convenient compared
to an expert human cutting master.
You can read more about Atom nesting software on this page, for a
presentation of CUTWEB on-line nesting service see here.
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