LASER MACHINING
example they are able to replace multiple touches of parts using band saw, tube cutting, drill press, or machining centers to fi nish parts with a single process,” said Todd O’Brien, North American product manager for lasers. BLM’s most recent introduction to the North American market is the compact
LC5 fi ber laser. The LC5 is a high-production machine with automatic loading and unloading that can process both tube and fl at sheet in a single machine. “Switching from tube to sheet is immediate, automatic, and doesn’t require re- tooling. The changeover can be done in under a minute,” said O’Brien. Equipped with a 4-kW IPG fi ber laser, the LC5 machine can handle bar up to 21' (6.4 m) in length and tube to 4.75" (120-mm) diameter. Processing is fully automatic and the machine is equipped with an automatic pallet changer and independent controls for both tube and sheet.
METAL FINISHING CAN BE A TALL ORDER
Rosler’s line of roller conveyor shot blast systems are perfect for paint preperation and general cleaning of structural steel and sheet metal.
Ulrich Planfi ling Corp. (Lakewood, NY) is cutting 20-gage 304 stainless with a #4 fi nish at 240 ipm (6 m/min) with its Mitsubishi 3015eX-45CF-R CO2
laser for 150 versions of receptacle lids in three languages.
BLM’s machines actually combine a sheet laser and a tube laser on one ma- chine, sharing cutting head, resonator, chill and dust collector without compromis- ing the productivity of either system. The BLM system can be expanded by adding a tube laser in the future, or adding sheetmetal automation, a tower, and parts sorter to match business growth. “Materials cut,” O’Brien said, “include a large amount of mild steel, galvanized, stainless, aluminum, and a minimal amount of copper and brass because the market hasn’t quite adopted fi ber lasers too much yet, but we’re also cutting titanium.
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“The biggest common challenge for our customers is producing consistent quality parts with the material that’s presented to them. Tube by its nature is bent, twisted, it’s not perfectly square and customers come back to us because we provide a number of tools in their toolbox for compensation including a sens- ing head or scanning the tube with cameras to compensate for the inaccuracies of the tube. In the fl at sheet world it’s all about feeds and speeds. In tube making productivity is measured by how many parts can be produced accurately in an hour,” said O’Brien.
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