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An Amada fiber-laser welding machine, a recent addition to the Makino Co. welding stable, primarily joins aluminum, aiding the company immensely as it has increasingly taken on assembly work.
cutting machines, punch/laser com- bination machines, press brakes, a grinding machine, a shearing machine and a corner shear. They stay busy, as our tour guide explained that 40 per- cent of parts produced here are fabri- cated from sheetmetal, following a just- in-time process in order to save on inventory space.
We also spotted an Amada FLW 4000 M3 fiber laser-welding machine, equipped with a patented rotating lens. With this feature, the laser beam circles within a small area as it welds. The rotating lens enables bridging large and uneven gap sizes while producing clean, even welds. Optimized heat input into the material results in pre- cisely defined weld edges. Other machine features include automatic beam focus, which adjusts the focus lens to an optimum setting based on set welding conditions; and reduced amount of mirrors and other optical components to ease maintenance and improve uptime. MF
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