CNC wire forming or wire bending is an advanced technique used to manipulate metal into standard or customized shapes for the manufacturing of products. Consisting of various shapes and sizes, wire forms are fabricated with machines through heat treatment, cutting and bending. CNC wire forming machines operate by using standardized tooling to alter the shape of the wire in size and dimension to create complex two-dimensional and three-dimensional parts.

CNC Wire Bending Machine

Although there are many types of wire forming, in production wire forming specialized machinery is used. These wire forming machines have many methods that can be employed to achieve the desired results however only a few are available to manufacture repeatable and fast results. In years past this was achieved through the use of machinery using CAM’s to actuate benders (old technology). These CAM operated 4-Slide machines required extensive setup, many trial runs and scrapped parts and large quantities to make it all that setup worthwhile. Today, using CNC technology, the new and highly modifiable machines form wire for hundreds of processes from rebar used in concrete forms to store racks & shopping carts along with millions of other parts in between even including jewelry. Although this manufacturing technology has been around for thousands of years it has become a very specialized and highly technical industry. 

3D and 2D CNC WIRE BENDING MACHINE

Wire Forming Machinery