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Laser Cutting - Page 17
- From The Fabricator
The importance of part leveling in metal fabrication
- By Dr. Hans-Peter Laubscher
- Aug 20, 2021
- Article
Part leveling technology can play a huge role in restoring flatness to a part after it reverts to following the grain of the previously coiled form.
- From The Fabricator
Mika Metal Fabricating launches website
- Aug 19, 2021
- News Release
Mika Metal Fabricating, a Willoughby, Ohio, custom sheet metal fabricator, has launched a new website at www.mikafab.com.
- From The Fabricator
Amada Weld Tech’s WL-300A fiber laser workstation configured for marking metals
- Aug 16, 2021
- News Release
Amada Weld Tech Inc has introduced the WL-300A laser processing workstation, configured for nanosecond pulsed fiber laser applications such as marking of metals and select plastics
- From The Fabricator
Human connections at FABTECH drive metal fabrication forward
- By Tim Heston
- Aug 16, 2021
- Article
Weary of Zoom, the manufacturing industry returns to FABTECH, an event that for decades has defined North American metal fabrication and forming.
- From The Fabricator
Making the transition from fabricating to stamping
- By Fred Simonson
- Aug 12, 2021
- Article
Typical fabricating job shops and OEMs make parts using traditional fabrication methods, such as turret punching, laser cutting, and press brake bending. But for the production of some flat sheet metal parts, the most efficient method is stamping using hard tooling.
- From The Fabricator
EVS Metal adds Amada fiber laser
- Aug 11, 2021
- News Release
EVS Metal has announced it has added an Ensis 3015 3-kW fiber laser from Amada America Inc. to its metal fabrication facility in Keene, N.H.
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Why are metal fabricators automating?
- Aug 3, 2021
- Video
What is driving automation in metal fabrication? Lack of skilled labor? Increasing throughput? Tim Heston, senior editor at The FABRICATOR magazine, and Robert Colman, editor of Canadian Fabricating & Welding magazine, share highlights from a new e-book and study by Salvagnini that serves as a useful guide for shops at any stage of their automation journey.
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Impact of Automation on Metal Fabrication
- Jul 28, 2021
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The typical North American manufacturing narrative goes something like this: If your job can be automated, it one day will be. But this study—a collaboration between The FABRICATOR, Canadian Fabricating & Welding, and Salvagnini—describes how this statement remains a vast oversimplification.
- From The Fabricator
Is a punch/laser machine right for your operation?
As with any technology, punch/laser machines have their advantages and disadvantages for some shops. Considering them all will help metal fabricators determine if such a machine is a good fit.
- From The Fabricator
Consolidated Machine and Welding to expand in Missouri
- Jul 26, 2021
- News Release
Metal fabricator Consolidated Machine and Welding has announced it will expand its facility in Hannibal, Mo., creating 30 jobs.
- From The Fabricator
United Precision Services, MicroStep announce strategic partnership
- Jul 23, 2021
- News Release
United Precision Services Inc., a provider of turnkey medium to large CNC machine tool systems, has announced a strategic partnership agreement with MicroStep.
- From The Additive Report
Amace introduces a 3D printer for metal parts that features a 410- by 410- by 450-mm build chamber
- Jul 23, 2021
- Product Release
Metal SLM-style 3D printer is powered by two 1,000-W Yb-fiber lasers
- From The Fabricator
Jenoptik appoints automation sales manager in Mexico
- Jul 22, 2021
- News Release
Jenoptik, a provider of optics and photonics, has appointed Ivan Cardenas as automation sales manager for Jenoptik Light & Production Mexico.
- From The Fabricator
High-powered lasers help fabricators keep up
Metal fabricators can’t find enough workers, so Bystronic held a customer event to show shops how advanced fabricating technology can help them add capacity without necessarily adding workers.
- From The Fabricator
Laser myths: What fabricators don’t know can hurt the process
- By John McCauley
- Jul 13, 2021
- Article
If an industrial laser cutter is supposed to operate as it is designed, machine operators need to regularly measure the laser, collect the data, and analyze it to ensure optimum performance. Here are 5 myths that separate fact from fiction.
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- 04/16/2024
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