LASYS
LASERS IN ACTION
Organised by Laser Systems Europe magazine in cooperation with Messe Stuttgart and the Laser Institute of America, the Lasers in Action Forum will give visitors a chance to hear practical examples of laser technology in use. The presentations will take place on all three days of the trade fair, with topics ranging from robotics and automation to additive manufacturing. A full schedule can be found here
Robotics & Automation
Laser additive manufacturing
Tuesday 24 June 9.30-10.00
High-precision laser micromachining on transparent material
Céline Bansal, Oxford Lasers
Transparent material such as polymer, glass and crystal can be very challenging to machine. Very oſten people would encounter absorption problem or if not, cracks or burrs would appear on the surface. What are the important parameters to face those issues and to obtain a nice and very smooth high precision laser micro machining on those challenging materials? Tis presentation will cover the difficult area of laser micromachining of transparent materials using a variety of laser sources and techniques. A number of different applications will be presented covering a wide variety of industries.
www.oxfordlasers.com
10.00-10.30
Robot-based 3D laser material processing in the automotive industry
Dr Torsten Scheller, Jenoptik Automatisierungstechnik
In the past decade laser manufacturing has become the key process for manufacturing complex
3D-shaped parts, particularly for lightweight components in the automotive or aerospace industry. Te most established systems for
16 LASER SYSTEMS EUROPE ISSUE 23 • SUMMER 2014
3D-cutting applications are based on gantry systems, but their footprint is a limiting factor in flexibility, e.g. for line integration. Jenoptik Automatisierungstechnik has developed a modular robot-based laser processing machine, called BIM (beam in motion). Te paper presents the robot machine concept BIM as an industrially proven system for the automotive industry. It compares the performance and the parameters for 3D-cutting applications of the BIM system vs. a gantry system by samples of production parts and shows the flexibility in integrating such a system in production environments by generating an outstanding small footprint.
www.jenoptik.com/en-laser-cutting
10.30-11.00
Welding of tailored blanks Dr Andre Eltze, Laserline
High-power diode lasers in the range of 5 to 6kW are ideally suited for welding of tailored blanks. Diode laser welding of flat sheets allows the combination of different materials and material thicknesses into a single component with locally adapted properties. In a single stamping process, this
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