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A peak underneath the Bystar cutting table reveals the shuffle-drive conveyor. It com- pletely covers the underside of the cutting machine, and frees the operator from having to remove parts from the trays that come standard with the machine.
about an hour to cut, so after 4 hr. of lights-out cutting there will typically be four sheet skeletons stacked on the unload table for the operator to deal with. And, four sheets’ worth of parts in the bin have to be sorted. Parts then route to several manual weld booths in a 30,000-sq.-ft. production building adjacent to the fab shop.
“Here we see fitup tolerances as tight as 0.002 in.,” says Virnig. “That’s a vast improvement from the 0.05-in. tolerances we were getting with plasma, and results in as much as a 10-percent decrease in weld and assembly time.”
Welcome Laser-Cutting System Number Two
Even running lights out, Virnig finds the shop maxed out in terms of processing steel. Rather than turn again to outsourcing, he installed, just this past August, a second laser-cutting machine. This time he “upped the ante,” he says, and went with Bystron- ic’s state-of the-art BySprint Pro 3015
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