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Laser Cutting
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Designing with Profile
Light, Stable & Economical
Tube and profile elements are important components of device and machine constructions. They are used in different forms and sizes as components in pipe work construction, frames, supports and trusses. Their fabrication out of semi-finished materials, which are available in a multitude of cross-sectional sizes and forms can be done effectively and economically.
Advantages of Lasers
Flexibility, Productivity & Precision
Typical applications include separating, mitre cuts, and form cut-outs. Conventional fabrication of such contours require multiple successive procedures such as drilling, punching, milling, sawing and deburring on different machine tools. Unfortunately, this results in long throughput times, high costs, and limited flexibility for changes.
Lasers offer many solutions to these problems by allowing users to completely fabricate a single piece on one machine with a single technique. With laser cutting, the production is carried out in one step, without burrs and the need for finishing operations. Changes simply need an NC Program correction.
The use of a laser also opens new production capabilities. Tubes and profiles wit a small wall thickness can be machined without deformation. The precise cut also allows the new design of parts, i.e. for the proper fitting of two pieces.
Range of Applications
Innovative, Creative & Flexible
Complex geometries in high tensile materials
Precision cut tubes made of high tensile steel are used as side impact protection in automobile doors. The complex cut geometry of cut of both of the tube ends is manufactured conventionally only at a high cost and with high tool wear. The laser manages these tasks easily, without wear, and allows separate cuts to be processed simultaneously without scrap.
Weight savings through laser cutting
The high tensile, thin walled tubes of bicycle frames are either conventionally soldered with sleeves or directly welded together. The welded connections make lighter designs possible. These connections require precisely worked tube ends which can be made very economically with a laser in a single pass.
Control over a great variety of work pieces
Sports equipment is manufactured primarily of tubes and profiles that vary in diameters, lengths, hole patterns and ends. The variety of these work pieces requires production that is not restricted by tools. The easy-to-program laser beam can automatically work semi-finished pieces consisting of different components.
Realizing new design possibilities
Office furniture is often constructed of tube and profile designs. The working of tube and profile elements with a laser provides the free forming of cut geometry. As a result, new design concepts are converted quickly.
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