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Laser marking systems
News Release from: Electrox | Subject: Raptor II laser marking system
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 July 2007
Compact laser marker needs little
maintenance
A compact laser marking system with a very small laser head, has an optical unit fully sealed to IP67, to ensure extremely low maintenance even in an hostile environment.
Electrox manufactures standard and application-specific laser marking systems and will be using EMO to launch its Raptor II laser marking system The Raptor II is based on Electrox's novel, proprietary EF Technology platform
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Along with the launch of the new laser marker, Electrox will be demonstrating examples of its existing range of industrial laser marking systems, including the compact MaxBox.
The Raptor II is a compact new laser marking system with a very small laser head, The machine incorporates an optical unit that is fully sealed to IP67, to ensure extremely low maintenance even in an hostile environment.
An annual machine 'health check' is normally all that would be required from a maintenance point of view.
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To meet the market demand - particularly from SMEs - for aggressively priced laser marking systems - this unit provides a permanent, easily legible and versatile mark.
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Laser marking machine is suitable for a wide range of applications and, in particular, facilitates the rapid removal of coated layers from delicate substrates without damage.
The system is entirely air cooled, eliminating the need for water or refrigerant circuits, and takes power direct from a single phase socket outlet.
Raptor is supplied as a modular unit for production line integration but can equally be supplied with a safety workstation as a turnkey solution.
The 5U, 19in rack electronics enclosure is about the same size as a tower PC.
Raptor is equally proficient in high and low volume applications.
Raptor II utilises the Electrox EF Technology platform to deliver the optimum balance between performance, price and product lifetime.
EF Technology provides very short energy pulses - 25ns compared with anything from 70ns to 200ns in other systems - which allows high peak powers (up to 10kW) combined with low pulse energies.
EF Technology permits high contrast, low damage marking on metals and plastics.
The highly controllable beam virtually eliminates surface damage around the mark.
It enables the EF Technology to be used for marking components where surface finish and retention of material integrity are paramount, especially in demanding aerospace or automotive applications.
Near perfect beam quality and exceptional energy stability over the entire operational range mean E F Technology delivers very small spots, typically 70 micron from a 254mm lens.
Smaller spots are possible (down to 25 micron) with high speed, self tuning digital signal process (DSP) galvos.
The system creates high energy intensities to give a substantially improved performance compared with more traditional systems.
The high beam quality facilitates large depths of focus, so laser markers built on E F Technology are better able to mark complex, curved or awkwardly shaped components.
There is no ramping in or out of the power and pulse frequencies range from CW to 100kHz.
The temporal pulse pattern permits bit maps, etc, to be marked easily and with high definition.
EF Technology systems have a four year warranty - the longest warranty available anywhere in the laser marking industry.
* Laser marking range - the Electrox range includes Raptor EF Technology laser, the Scorpion fibre laser, the Razor CO2 laser, the Cobra V-12/20 Nd:Vanadate laser, the Cobra Nd:YAG and the Scriba lamp pumped system.
Offered in modular form for integration into production lines and as a range of turn-key solutions, Electrox laser marking systems are suitable for a wide range of applications, including metals, glass, plastics and textiles, wood, leather and coated materials.
* Product marking - product marking an essential element within the current manufacturing process.
The reason is that customers want indispensable and easily accessible product or component data, the increasing requirements for full traceability, and the need for anti-counterfeit branding.
For most applications, laser marking is the most cost-efficient, versatile and fastest way to create a legible and permanent mark.
* About Electrox - specialist manufacturers in laser marking, Electrox has revolutionised the market during the last eighteen months by introducing an almost entirely new product range and creating pioneering laser technologies.
Developing robust marking solutions in response to market requirements, Electrox, is one of few manufacturers to undertake research, design, system development, applications engineering and all manufacturing at its own plant and under its own rigorous control.
it is one of very few companies which retain the elements of the design and manufacturing process under its own control and at its own premises.
All elements within the laser marking system are designed at the company's manufacturing facility by the company's team of laser physicists, drawn from around the world.
Manufacturing is arranged in product-specific cells to give maximum efficiency and ensure the ability to respond to customer requirement in the minimum time.
The laser scanning head and all the electronics are designed and manufactured on site and, crucially, the ownership of the full product life cycle extends to the construction of the proprietary software used to create the mark and control the laser.
The most obvious advantage of this for the customer is that the company itself holds all relevant information for a system, so there is no abrogation of responsibility after a system has been installed.
Of equal importance in system efficiency, however, is that the company can easily and cost-effectively tailor standard systems to suit individual applications, whether the requirement is to handle an exceptionally wide range of component size, to automate the marking process for an unmanned production environment, or simply to integrate the laser marking within an existing production process.
Director/general manager of Electrox, Howard Moore, said: "Customers do not necessarily need just a marking system.
Generally, they need a system which is suited specifically to their application and their production environment. Request a free brochure from Electrox ...
We are well placed to meet that need because we have an extensive department of very experienced and highly skilled applications engineers and we design and manufacture the laser system at our own manufacturing facility, so can easily and economically accommodate special requirements.".
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