Lasers light the path to productivity/Technological breakthroughs make laser processing more efficient than machining

摘要

Sporting powerful resonators, innovative 3D-cutting heads, and simultaneously controlled rotary chucks, today's lasers take on a variety of jobs from cutting complex contours, weld-prep bevels, and holes in single setups, to micromachining fine geometries on miniature components. Because lasers can reduce downtime and boost shop productivity, many shops are giving laser cutting a second look. In addition to being fast, laser processing has high material-utilization rates and reduces work-in-process inventories. There are no tools to sharpen, maintain, purchase, or replace when broken and no need to purchase filters or disonators increase cutting speeds and produce surface finishes approaching machining-center quality.