The CNC laser cuttingmachines are a mainstay for a majority of industrial and production houses as
they are just perfect for making prototypes made of metals, particularly in
projects that have short production runs and require thicker uses of metal.
These machines are required for cutting sheet metal to perfection whether they
are steel, stainless steel, titanium, aluminum alloy, and more.
The best thing about
the CNC or Computer Numerically Controlled machines is that they require
minimal set up time. Besides this, there is no hard tooling required and
involves very little engineering time. All in all, you should easily be able to
get on with your production order the same day. This is what happens when you
have this kind of technology working for you. What these machines are able to
do is reduce the amount of work you are required to put in to complete an
order. It also means you are able to complete the production works on the same
day you receive an order! Now, isn’t this what efficiency is all about?
Using CNC laser cutting
machines, using the same sheet metal for making multiple cuts is very much
possible. When you go about doing this, there will be ties that will hold
together all the pieces together. The machine, on its part, will continue doing
its work and complete the entire cutting process in one go. The operator will
then be required to use a rubber mallet or shake off the metal sheet to have
all the parts loosened from one another. Now, this is the reason why the parts
produced by these machines are also known as ‘Shaker’ parts. Also, while
precision cuts are achieved through these machines, not all of the available
sheet metal pieces are used in the production process, making wastage an
inevitable factor in the process.
It is not just Carbon
Dioxide; the CNC laser cutting
machines make use of a high voltage system, because of which the gas is
excited. All this will give you an impression that the machine emanates a
single wavelength of light. To cut a metallic sheet into a required dimension
and shape, the machine makes use of an optics system that helps direct onto an
area where the cut is required. The usefulness of the optics system is that it
helps reduce the diameter of light and hence narrow it down to a required
level. At the time of metal cutting, both the laser bed and the cutting laser
move in tandem. The gas mixture comprising of oxygen and nitrogen that help
blow away the vaporized metal also assists in the combustion process. The
presence of oxygen is what helps the laser do the cutting process quicker in
these machines.
The modern day CNC
laser cutting machine come loaded with a number of new and exciting features.
For example, some of these machines make use of nitrogen in their air to make
the vaporization and combustion process a lot easier while going about cutting
metallic sheets and materials. There are a number of manufacturers these days
that produce and market these machines.
