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Steel plate continuously profiled by laser
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LVD (UK) product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Oct 12, 2001
Expanding the advantages of its modular concept design, the LVD Axel 'flying optics' laser profiling machine was demonstrated at EMO 2001 with fully integrated automation.
Expanding the advantages of its modular concept design, the LVD Axel 'flying optics' laser profiling machine was demonstrated at EMO 2001 with fully integrated automation to accommodate almost continuous production requirements.
In order to facilitate unmanned running routines, the Axel 3015 machine incorporates LVD's Laser Eye optical referencing system that provides automatic and non-contact sheet referencing.
Included in the Axel specification on show was its laser beam compensation system which allows high quality cuts and edge finishing to be maintained over the full table area at speeds up to 170m/min.
The machine can be specified with options of 2000, 3000 or 4000W GE-Fanuc HF fast flow CO2 laser for processing steel up to 20mm thick, stainless steel up to 12mm and aluminium up to 8mm.
As demonstrated, the Axel 3015 featured its fully integrated automatic pallet station which allowed loading functions to be performed independently and without operator intervention.
Moving in a vertical direction, the loading mechanism used spreading magnets working in conjunction with a double sheet detection device 'peeling nap' air blow and edge contact wire brushes to separate ferrous and non-ferrous sheets up to 20mm thick.
Stack height was 170mm.
Unloading was also independent of the processing cycle with the speed of operation controlled under the same GE-Fanuc CNC control according to the weight of the material or the size of parts being off-loaded.
A tipping motion laid the processed parts onto a table preventing any damage and within an unloading time of 45 secs.
The machine and automation package has been designed to be compact requiring minimum floorspace and is able to accommodate material size options of 1250mm by 2500mm or 1500mm by 3000mm.
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