SPACERMATE™

Automated Spacer Bending Machine Interface

Maximizing the efficiency of your spacer bending machinery insures maximum performance and increased profits.

SPACERMATE™ provides a highly efficient and easy to use method to produce your insulated glass unit spacer requirements. Automated spacer bending and processing machinery will receive information directly from SPACERMATE™ - eliminating the need for an operator to manually input dimensional information into the machine's control. 

Window order information bridged to LINEALMATE™, PMC's lineal optimization software, or OPTIMATE™ / WINDOWMATE™, PMC's glass optimization products, contains unique spacer requirements such as type, thickness and color.  Special considerations such as grid location markings may also be passed in the bridge file if required. 

SPACERMATE™ automatically sorts and groups spacer requirements for processing to maximize spacer bender efficiency. This step eliminates the need for your operators to manually perform these tasks, freeing their time to perform more meaningful tasks.

Orders can contain rectangular or shape insulated glass units.  SPACERMATE™ will process all orders based on your equipment's capabilities.

PMC Software has developed spacer bending machine interfaces, through SPACERMATE™, for most leading spacer bender machinery manufacturers. This feature provides the ability to select the best spacer bending machinery for your operations, based on your budget and production requirements - no matter who the manufacturer may be.

The most efficient means of transferring   SPACERMATET information to a spacer bending machine is via a Novell Local Area Network (LAN).  This method provides the ability for your operators to simply check the computer monitor and select the schedule to be processed.   It also increases customer satisfaction by allowing your sales department to process "Hot" or "Rush" orders on the fly.

Once a production schedule is chosen and downloaded to the spacer bender machinery, it will automatically produce the required spacers both accurately and in the correct sequence.  This feature eliminates all manual data entry, which can be time consuming and prone to errors that can cause machine accuracy problems.

SPACERMATE™ increases productivity and profitability in your spacer bending department.