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Tech Update
Enhanced Coil-Blanking Speed via 8-kW Laser Heads
gle-laser 8-kW head or with multiple heads, which allow a shared balancing of the cutting workload to decrease processing time and improve productivity. Additionally, the LaserCoil systems offer multi-mode capability where users can choose either Feed Index Mode (stop/start) or Continuous Mode for optimizing cutting parameters for each part configuration.
LaserCoil Technologies LLC has increased the cutting speed and power of its laser-blanking systems with the introduction of 8-kW fiber lasers featuring a proprietary Z-axis design integrated directly into the laser-blanking system. This feature allows the laser head to more rapidly adjust to height variations in the material, thus maintaining consistent stand-off.
By laser cutting direct from coil stock, these systems reportedly provide a rapid and flexible approach to blanking, well- suited for production environments running multiple blank profiles and mixed material types. The systems can handle coil stock to 2.1-m wide in any length, and can process aluminum, mild steel, advanced high-strength steels, and materials for surface-sensitive panels as well as struc- tural components. With 8-kW systems, simple shapes in material thicknesses from 0.5 to 0.75 mm can be cut with
In the past, when reaching higher cutting speeds, especially in the range of 1000- 2200 mm/sec., the system’s ability to adjust to variations in material height with less than perfectly flat material lagged behind the laser’s potential cutting speed. This was, in part, due to this Z-axis adjustment being tied into a separate controller, functioning through a separate human-machine interface. But the new integrated Z-axis offers the ability to maintain the higher speeds with a wider range of less than
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Fully programmable slide motion allows for optimized blanking and forming operations
Increased productivity using Pendulum motion
Direct drive technology with capacitor bank energy management system
Tonnage Monitoring, Die Protection, Programmable Timing Switches, Remote Diagnostics are all standard
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