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摘要

Atube cutting laser machine can offer significant productivity advantages over traditional tube and pipe cutting methods by reducing secondary operations such as drilling, punching, and deburr-ing, and a laser helps simplify welding setups. Another factor in productivity is the machine's ability to handle material-specifically, the time it takes to remove a finished tube and load the next tube. For example, if a process makes four parts from each tube, and each part takes 12 seconds, the total time to process those four parts is 48 seconds. If the process of loading the next tube takes 20 seconds spark-to-spark (the time between the last spark of the last cutoff to the first spark of the next tube), the actual cycle time is about 30 percent greater at 68 seconds (17 seconds per part).