Bihler LEANTOOL

Bihler’s Leantool is a holistic concept for stamping and bending manufacturers. Strictly following the rules of standardisation and modularisation the concept enables users to speed up their workflow from planning to production.

What once used to depend on a few genius tool constructors is now backed by a huge database providing crucial informations like bending steps, setup time and pulse rate to the manufacturers. Templates provided by the database can be customised and sent to the servo stamping and forming machine. Then, production takes place – fast, complex, precise. It seems that the Star Trek Replicator is about to become reality!

büro bewegt had the great pleasure to help Bihler spread the word about their new manufacturing concept. To illustrate its holistic nature we decided to show the whole process in one room. The combination of real footage, green screen and CG imagery enabled us to show Leantool in all its complexity.

Making-Of

During this project we dedicated quite some time to pre-production. First of all we developed the concept via storyboards, then we refined it into an elaborate Animatic. The Animatic gave our client a good impression on how the final movie will look like and also helped us a lot with planning the actual movie shoot.

The shooting took place at BMW’s old factory building in Munich. In order to support the desired look the hall was equipped with a huge softbox as well as a green screen to facilitate adding the stamping machine later in post-production.

After the shooting we re-constructed the camera with 3D cam tracking and replaced the green screen with the actual machine.

We converted a lot of CAD data to polygons! All the CGI Shots were created in Cinema 4D and rendered with Redshift Render.

LEANTOOL Movie German Version