RETHINKING ROTARY PROCESSING

摘要

YOU'RE a typical tube or pipe fabricator. The alloys, diameters, wall thicknesses, lengths, and volumes you cut change from day to day, even hour to hour, depending on your customers' needs. Some parts need a weld prep, some need grooves, some need chamfers (ID or OD), some need radiused edges, and some need nothing fancy at all - just a clean 90-degree cut. Some of the work results in scrap that you discard; other jobs leave valuable remnants that you'd like to return to inventory. The only consistency in a day's production is the inconsistency. To top it all off, you need tight tolerances on many of the parts you cut. Floor space is at a premium, so you want to know if you can do all these processes on one machine. As a matter of fact, you can.