- Labelmaker southern coating installs finecut laser cutter
Southern Coating & Nameplate, Inc. ( www.southerncoating.com ), a global ID-graphics manufacturer located in North Little Rock, AR, launches into tool-free cutting with its newly acquired Spartanics Finecut laser-cutting system ( www.spartan ics.com ). The equipment lets Southern Coating create both small and large intricate die-cut parts without the costs ......
- Detroit looks to lasers.
Detroit Looks To Lasers The first demonstration of a man-made laser occured in 1960, when Theodore Maiman produced pulses of red light from a ruby rod. The ensuing decade saw not only the discovery of many other types of lasers, but also the adoption of the laser as a manufacturing ......
- Linear motors move laser along a serpentine
path.
Anorad Corp. (Hauppauge, N.Y.) uses brushless linear motors to achieve smooth and rapid motion in a high-speed laser machine it designed for a heating-coil manufacturer. The machine was designed to cut intricate serpentine shapes from stainless steel, but it can be used with several materials and in many machining and ......
- What Customers Want in Motion Control
What are some of the notable changes that you've seen in motion control in recent years? Linear motors are becoming mainstream, as are high-speed digital signal processors that allow very-high-speed servo rates. Analog sinusoidal encoders also are making a big comeback, although they are processed digitally to get very high ......
- What Customers Want in Motion Control
What are some of the notable changes that you've seen in motion control in recent years? Linear motors are becoming mainstream, as are high-speed digital signal processors that allow very-high-speed servo rates. Analog sinusoidal encoders also are making a big comeback, although they are processed digitally to get very high ......
- Profit from High-Tech Lasers
HEADNOTE Advances in technology have changed laser cutting economics IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 Many fabricators are making the same discovery about laser cutting that one manufacturer of decorative shelves recently made: justifying the initial investment and operating costs of a laser system is much easier than it was a decade ago....
- Laser cutter uses water-jet guidance
IMAGE ILLUSTRATION 1 Cutting hard, brittle, and abrasive materials such as ceramics presents several problems. Diamond cutting wheels wear out, use large amounts of liquid coolant, take considerable time, and cannot machine thin gaps. Electronic-discharge machining (EDM) only works on electrically conductive materials, not ceramics, diamonds, or silicon nitrides. And ......