Patent ID: 7029429

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a plurality of bent products in a bending press system provided with: a bending press that has at least one bending station to mount a plurality of divided tools each having a tool type and; tool housing devices to house the divided tools for the bending press and; tool exchange devices to move the divided tools between the tool housing devices and the at least one bending station; the method comprising: a step to store each divided tool on the at least one bending station and housed in the housing devices and housed in a tool magazine outside the bending press in a first memory means; a step to determine the tool type of the divided tools to be arranged on the at least one bending station and the length of the station on basis of a bending line length of a respective one of the bent products, and a flange length and bending angle of the one bent product; and a step to prepare data of an order of production in order to manufacture the bent products that use tools mounted on the at least one bending station or tools housed in the tool housing devices before manufacturing bent products that use tools housed in tool magazine provided outside the bending press.