Content tagged with "nesting"
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Article
July 6, 2009
Software evolves to take a humanlike approach
Some operators tend to tweak nests. Unfortunately, the time spent tweaking may affect throughput; why invest in automatic nesting if someone spends time to manually change it? Besides, an hour spent rearranging parts for 1 percent better material utilization costs more than using the original... Read more...
Article
January 27, 2009
Bending outside the box
Ask 10 press brake operators how they would bend a particular part, and you're likely to get 10 different answers. But all would agree on parts that gave them major headaches, such as ones with different (and sometimes unwarranted) radii requiring tooling changes, or radii that cannot be... Read more...
Article
November 25, 2008
Punching on demand
Dean Wilson has never been afraid of taking on a challenge. As executive vice president of manufacturing for King Electrical Mfg. Co., the heating products company that his father founded in 1958, he has tackled his share. But none has been greater than transforming the company's... Read more...
Article
June 17, 2008
One nesting software for all
Nests such as this are now possible for Maurer Manufacturing with ProNest software from MTC Software. The trailer fabricator uses the program to nest parts for both its Alltra plasma cutting table and Cincinnati laser cutting machine. "All for one, and one nesting software for all." That's... Read more...
Article
May 13, 2008
Evaluating a CAM system
Figure 1 Free-form nesting allows a fabricator to fit as many parts as possible on one sheet. Imagine this: You have a race car with the leanest, lightest chassis available and the world's fastest engine powering the vehicle, but instead of proper tires you have wheels from a shopping... Read more...
Article
May 13, 2008
Pushing nesting efficiency for the punch press
Nesting for the punch press should take into account not only the part boundary, but the tool boundary as well. Lean principles advocate a flexible manufacturing environment that theoretically can produce a batch quantity of one just as efficiently as a batch of 10,000. Kitting, single-piece... Read more...
Article
March 13, 2007
Flexible automation of laser cutting, material handling
Automated parts removal helps to eliminate the non-value-added aspects of laser cutting, but a closer look at nesting is necessary to get the most efficiency out of the automated operation.
In the world of sheet metal fabrication, intelligent fabricating with a laser cutting machine... Read more...
Article
September 12, 2006
Expanding upward and outward
The LVP LUS laser cutting machine not only is designed to be 50 percent faster than older models, but also features automatic lens focus and height adjustment. It's elementary for Watson. If Watson Engineering wanted to keep up with its customers in the heavy-duty equipment industry,... Read more...
Article
July 11, 2006
Sheetmetal software: Nothing soft about it
Faced with a number of economic snafus, U.S. fabricators are examining every possibility for increasing production and lowering costs. One such area of contemplation is software. According to Shawn E. Thompson, CAD/CAM Business Manager for Strippit/LVD, fabricators have had to reduce and... Read more...
Article
December 13, 2005
A change by design
A Great Dane just happens to watch over the entrance of Great Dane Trailers. You don't become a big dog in manufacturing without knowing about technology and innovation. For the last 100 years, Great Dane Trailers has followed that strategy and is now the largest trailer company in the... Read more...
Article
July 12, 2005
How one shop benefited from abrasive waterjet technology
Figure 1 Triplex Systems manufacturers this casting cleaning cabinet for the investment casting industry. Editor's Note: Dr. Olsen has authored several articles for thefabricator.com about abrasive wate jet cutting technology. These articles can be found in thefabricator.com's... Read more...
Article
April 15, 2002
Reviewing bottom bending and nested parts
Figure 1
Air forming is a three-point bending process. The metal is in contact with, and bent by, the two top corners of the die and the punch tip.
Hey, it's a brave new world—a world in which the reality of precision sheet metal manufacturing has to include optimizing the number... Read more...
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