Process Porn: TRUMPF's TruBend Ergonomic Bending Machines

You don’t typically think of factory machines as being particularly ergonomic. But German manufacturer TRUMPF, a company that’s nearly 100 years old, designs their production machinery to be as comfortable as possible for the user. Check out this demo of their TruBend 7036, which starts with the operator dialing in the ergo before bending up some funky parts:

Here’s the machine’s bigger brother, the TruBend 7050:

And even bigger TruBend 8400. Check out the crazy thing the machine does around 1:40 in the vid:

If you want to see more of their machines, they’ve got a YouTube channel called–what else?–TRUMPFtube.

Source: core77