Content tagged with "beams"
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Article
December 12, 2006
Structurally, it's a job shop
Structural steel from Suburban Steel Co. is used to frame a Huntington Bank branch in Grove City, Ohio. Structural steel shops can be as inflexible as the giant beams they supply to commercial and residential contractors. Jobs are booked by the shop hour. More jobs lead to more hours and... Read more...
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December 13, 2005
Looking to higher power for laser speed?
In the past decade, the laser technology market for industrial material processing has grown by double digits. With improved beam sources and expanded scope and optimization of system concepts, lasers have become efficient, reliable manufacturing tools in a variety of sectors.... Read more...
Article
May 10, 2005
The ABCs of CNC
This full ironworker has an X-Y coordinate CNC punch positioning table and a CNC plate feeding and measuring system. In today's production shops, time is critical, and money—whether it's how much of it you make or what you invest it in—is vital. For these reasons, an... Read more...
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July 13, 2004
Welding Miniature Devices
Welders have been joining miniature electromechanical devices for industrial and medical applications for more than 30 years. However, it's a subject that hasn't been featured much in papers and technical publications. The history of joining miniature devices goes back to the turn of the... Read more...
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January 13, 2004
The future of structural welding
Like my history of welding article , this article is my small insight into the future of structural welding. Like I said before, if you are a history or English professor—and I'll add math professor to this group after my last miscalculation, pointed out by Ted Neff... Read more...
Article
September 17, 2001
Monitoring laser beam performance
In the last 20 years, the use of industrial lasers for cutting, drilling, welding, marking, and cladding has increased dramatically. Industrial lasers, unlike their laboratory cousins, are not designed with continuous monitoring in mind. The laser often is assumed to be operating at peak... Read more...
Article
May 15, 2001
Safety Fundamentals for Today's Industrial Lasers
In today's industrial workplace, lasers are used for cutting and welding metals, bar code scanning, inventory tracking, parts identification, measurement, as well as rapid prototyping. Simply put, the uses are many, and the applications seem limitless.
In a recent report... Read more...
Article
March 5, 2001
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