PRODUCT UPDATE LASER SYSTEMS Scannect tyre marking solution Titan flat-bed laser cutting machines
Fonon has unveiled 10 major updates to the Titan family of multipurpose laser cutting machines. They integrate multiple subsystems and introduce improvements that increase end-user productivity, lower costs over time, minimise the Titan’s floor space footprint and reduce its power consumption. Designed to consume less than 5 per
cent of the power required by common CO2 laser systems, the Titan FX cutting machine is a maintenance-free system, with an integrated laser source and heat exchange. Its modular laser is available in 1kW, 2kW or 4kW increments, allowing users to increase the laser cutting power up to 8kW. The laser is also field-upgradeable, meaning users can adapt the system to changes in their production environment quickly. This eliminates many of the high installation and maintenance costs borne by users of typical laser cutting systems. Technical advances incorporated in many of Fonon’s other laser material processing systems allow the Titan FX to adjust to slight variations in thickness across the metal plate. The updated Titan is equipped with a sealed feedback sensor, allowing operation in harsh industrial environments. Its frictionless, direct drive linear-motion platform, lightweight bridge and software-controlled orthogonality enable high acceleration and cutting-on-the-fly capabilities. The new Titan design eliminates several components prone to failure in typical large-format laser cutting systems. Together these advances enhance the
user’s productivity in terms of laser speed, acceleration, and laser placement accuracy. Further user-centric improvements include the ability to recalibrate the gantry at the press of a single button, ensuring the material is always in alignment and free of unplanned machine failures and seizures. Power wattage upgrades to the laser do not require a specialised field engineer, and all operational steps are designed specifically for user best practices.
www.fonon.us
Photonic Professional GT 3D printer
Nanoscribe’s 3D printer, Photonic Professional GT, enables fast and high-resolution manufacturing of 3D micro-objects with heights up to the range of millimetres. The system is also suitable for maskless lithography. Photonic Professional GT can print almost arbitrarily complex shaped polymer structures with fine feature sizes in the sub-micrometre range by means of two-photon polymerisation.
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4Jet Technologies has developed a laser marking process that can engrave an individual QR code in tyre sidewalls. The high contrast engraving can be read using public domain apps available for Apple iOS or Android devices.
The Scannet solution – short for ‘scan and connect’ – means tyre manufacturers can trace tyres through their lifecycle. Similar product identification methods have certain issues: machine readable paper barcodes have a limited lifetime; moulded QR codes are not unique; RFID tags require specific reading hardware; and engraved plain text serial codes require numbers to be typed in offline. The Scannect solution enables a method of product identification that can link directly to a web-based CRM database. The laser markings are either applied in the tyre
factory, further down the car or wheel assembly line, or at the point of sale. Laser engraved QR codes are recessed into the surface of the tyre, so are protected from wear.
Marking is performed by the latest version of 4Jet´s line of T-Mark systems that are widely used in new tyre and retread tyre manufacturing. Compared to conventional laser marking, which only leaves a low contrast mark on the black tyre
PowerWeld 2600 welding station
Laser plastic welding is particularly safe, hygienic and economic – so the optimal solution for medical technology. At the Medtec Europe show, LPKF showcased the first system in a new machine generation, as well as a method for producing sophisticated microfluidic components. With its latest upgrade of the LPKF PowerWeld 2600, LPKF launches another product line that is even more standardised than the previous machine generations. It incorporates new design specifications that support more efficient
surface, the Scannet process creates a deep black mark on the bottom of the engraving, creating enough contrast to be read by cameras in mobile devices. The process, comprising special optics, laser parameters and control software integrated in 4Jet´s standard marking systems, is now commercially available.
www.4jet.de
production and simpler maintenance. The system can be equipped with different laser sources: Fibre lasers for instance are ideal for extremely fine weld seams, while the adapted ClearJoining accessories are for welding large transparent parts. At Medtec Europe, LPKF presented ClearJoining technology for precise welding of transparent components. The LPKF PrecisionWeld welding system is designed for this purpose. A special laser source enables the creation of ultra-fine weld seams with a width of
100µm. The joining pressure is applied by an integrated over-pressure clamping system.
www.lpkf-laserwelding.com
Ultra-short laser pulses polymerise photosensitive materials in the laser focus. Nanoscribe’s systems are used for a wide field of novel applications in photonics, micro-optics, microfluidics, and life sciences. Subsequent independent processes enable the transfer and replication of polymeric 3D printed templates into a large choice of materials, including metals and semiconductors.
www.nanoscribe.de
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