Producing modern drive technologies of the kind used in hybrid and electric vehicles requires new components that can be manufactured economically. Conductive components (busbars) are of particular importance in this case. They are needed to ensure safe and reliable power transmission between individual battery modules and the electric motors.

With the CNC-controlled BMF 60, WAFIOS has developed a completely new bending machine for the production of profiled parts and busbars. State-of-the-art patent-pending technologies have been incorporated in order to bend complex parts with the tightest of radii and distortions. The process steps involved are bending, cutting, insulation stripping, and twisting.