Reduce cost and speed up development with the new X-frame system

This versatile system has already been successfully used in the manufacture of special purpose machines involved with the production of medical devices, door furniture, garden tools and test cells for the automotive industry.

Conventional wisdom dictates the use of aluminium profiles to assemble a skeleton structure that holds and enables the machine with all of its functionality. Typically this “frame” has to be designed before any other development takes place and it consumes a number of days in design and further days to assemble. Using aluminium profiles to create a machine frame enables flexibility but it’s not efficient. X-frame has flexibility but it’s highly efficient and it’s clever. Everything has been thought of! From operator panels to a vast range of door types and fittings making procurement just a few mouse clicks away.

X-frame components are precision made from steel and can rapidly, within hours, be assembled from a kit of parts. Design time is reduced to a simple choice of standard parts that create a professional look for the builder. A major advantage is that all the cabling, wiring and pneumatics are built in to the internal channels that run all around the X-frame. This means that the need for a vast array of clips and brackets that have to be used with profiles is eliminated. Even the control panel is a part of the X-frame structure.

As one of the directors of the UK Company, David Morris explains, “Your expertise is what you put inside the frame; your technology is the value that you provide. It’s not in the frame. X-frame provides that expertise, reducing time and cost whilst significantly improving the look of your finished product”. Colour finishes and branding as well as customised functionality are all selectable by the user.

X-frame can be extended or reduced or indeed change shape or structure at any time. All the component parts are re-usable unlike aluminium profiles which are cut to a specific length. To complete the X-frame range there is also a pro-X variant for use in heavy duty applications where the standard 800kg load can be significantly increased.