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Articles tagged with "plasma arc cutting"
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Cut to the chase: Considering plasma arc cutting for your applicationsThis article outlines some of the benefits, limitations, and applications of plasma arc cutting. It also provides questions to ask when considering the process for your business.
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Gouging: The other plasma process: Defining the basicsPlasma gouging, although not necessarily as well-known as plasma cutting, is one of four methods of gouging that can be used for a variety of industrial applications. Different techniques bring about different results, depending on the application.
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Making a clear-cut decision: Choosing automated cutting equipment for small, medium-sized shopsDeciding what automated cutting equipment is best for your small or medium shop depends on many factors: part size, part thickness, part accuracy, parts quantity, computer skills, and machine payback, or return on investment.
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Attention, all plasma table shoppers: Everything you need to know before you purchase a CNC plasma cutting machineCNC plasma cutting machines are more affordable and easier to operate than ever before. By knowing the right kind of hardware and software makes sense, a fabricator can choose the equipment that makes the most sense for his operation.
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Taking waste off the plate: Operators for C&S Metal Fabricating use controller software to improve quality, reduce costs in thermal cuttingC&S Metal Fabricating, Houston, fabricates parts for the oil and petrochemical industry. When it purchased a thermal cutting table with the latest controller technology, it took the unusual step of keeping all nest designs down on the shop floor, not in the front office as many other shops do.
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Improving plasma cut quality: For best cuts, begin with system componentsBy optimizing the performance of each of the plasma cutting system's components, a fabricator can quickly and consistently create high quality parts. The plasma power supply, torch, and lead assembly comprise a plasma cutting system. Robust cutting applications require a mechanized system with an integrated computer numerical control (CNC) and a three-axis configuration with the plasma torch and a torch height control.
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Mejorando la Calidad del Corte Manual por Plasma: Obtenga más vida; cortes rápidos y limpiosSiga estos consejos y sugerencias para mejores prcticas en el corte por plasma, y vea los resultados: mayor eficiencia y precisin y una vida ms larga del cortador por plasma y de los consumibles.
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The life and times of plasma cutting: How the technology got where it is todayPlasma cutting has become a process of choice for many because of its cost-effectiveness. However, this wasn't the case when the technology was introduced because of short consumable life. Technological innovations over the years, however, helped to change that.
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Service center fabricates its future: Independent company does more than simply distribute metal to thriveDenman & Davis calls itself the largest general-line, independent service center in the Northeast. The company has about 65,000 square feet of inventory and manufacturing space in Clifton, N.J., another 70,000 square feet in Slatersville, R.I., and another 35,000 in Albany, N.Y. The company distributes a variety of hot-rolled and cold-finished bars, structural shapes, sheets, and tubing, but has discovered a fruitful niche with plate, used in pressure vessel, power generation, and processing applications.
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Plasma delivers precision for top seat manufacturer: ButlerBuilt Motorsports also finds speed off the asphaltButlerBuilt, a leading manufacturer of motorsports seating located in Harrisburg, N.C., finds a new plasma cutting system to be a much better improvement over the 15-year-old plasma table it dumped in early 2007.
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Cleaner consumables, cleaner cuts, better production: Regular maintenance and effective troubleshooting lower operating costsPlasma cutting is one of the most efficient ways to cut sheet and heavy plate, but that efficiency can evaporate quickly without proper consumable maintenance.
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You can plasma cut it, but can you weld it?: Plasma cutting with the right gas and torch setup makes life easier for the welderTime spent on extensive weld prep easily can eliminate any gains made from faster plasma cutting. Put another way, it doesn't matter how fast a plasma cuts if the resulting cut face can't be welded efficiently.
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Mejorando la calidad del corte por plasma: Los mejores cortes empiezan con los componentes del sistema |
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Fabrication business coming up races: Mazworx hopes to build its profile through sport compact racingMazworx, a shop that rebuilds engines for racing, fabricates custom parts for racing upgrades, and works on compact cars to prepare them for racing, is also involved in racing. The belief is that it can build up its reputation for racing parts through appearances at NHRA sport compact races throughout the Southeast.
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EuroBLECH 2008: A celebration of metal fabricating and forming: A visit to Hannover, Germany, for the world's largest sheet metal manufacturing exhibition reveals a European taste for automation and efficiencyEuroBLECH is a celebration more than anything. Most of the booths have plenty of tables and, usually, a bar for customers, distributors, business partners, and friends to swing by, chat, have a drink, and talk about life both in and out of the industry. In fact, unlike shows in North America, a visitor will find materials suppliers—the folks that make the metal sheet, plate, and tube—among the exhibitors. Everyone comes together for this global event.
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Cut to the chase: Considering plasma arc cutting for your applicationsThis article outlines some of the benefits, limitations, and applications of plasma arc cutting. It also provides questions to ask when considering the process for your business.
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One nesting software for all: Maurer Manufacturing now uses one software package for its plasma and laser cutting machinesMaurer Manufacturing, Spencer, Iowa, purchased a new plasma cutting table in late 2006 and decided it wanted one nesting program to run both the new plasma table and its slightly older Cincinnati laser cutting machine. After a slight stumble, the company found the solution it needed with MTC Software's ProNest program.
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Making sense of metal cutting technologies: Oxyfuel, plasma, laser, waterjet-all have their place in today's shopThis article was developed from the Comparative Cutting Panel conducted at the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association's Metal Matters conference in Orlando, Fla., March 2008.
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