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News Release from: Prima Industrie UK | Subject: Automated, compact flat bed laser profilers
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 December 2005
Flat bed lasers fit in confined spaces
Materials handling system combined with a small 'footprint' flat bed laser will enable factories to fit fully automated systems into areas where previously it would not have been possible.
Full Automation with a Small Footprint Prima Industrie UK one of Britain's leading suppliers of laser cutting machines has announced the launch of a new concept in automation with the automated CompactServer which takes up hardly any extra valuable floor space, available for all their new flatbed laser machines including the Platino, Domino and Syncrono machines allowing them to become independent, unmanned work cells with maximum output and efficiency The CompactServer sits above the standard pallet change table, and the two shelves are easily accessible for raw and finished sheet metal stacks for loading and unloading
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 31 May 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Both shelves can be optionally replaced with two motorized pallets, sliding in external positions to allow the stack handling through a bridge crane.
Each shelf can hold up to 3 tonnes in weight with sheets up to 3m x 1.5m.
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Due to the ergonomic design the footprint of the complete machine with a CompactServer is only slightly different to one with a machine and just a pallet change table.
The Platino 1530 HS flatbed laser cutting machine has one of the smallest footprints with a 3m x 1.5m working envelope available today, and now with this new Compactserver will enable customers to fit fully automated systems into areas where previously it would not have been possible.
This will allow customers with small factory units to compete with the larger companies within the laser cutting industry.
With a small capital outlay they will become more efficient, and cost effective against their competitors larger sized and more expensive machinery.
This total integration allows the system to be transported without the need to disassemble and reassemble it, therefore making the installation easy and quick.
It also has the added bonus of not requiring a foundation.
The system is directly controlled by the standard machine CNC (Primach-20L).
This gives the advantage of reliability, compactness and management ease.
As a complete production manufacturing cell, the CompactServer system is provided with all the safety, referencing, separation and measuring devices, which grant a safe and efficient unmanned activity.
Prima has seen the sales in its automated system increase dramatically in the last twelve months, and have recently taken another three separate orders in the UK for fully automated systems.
The three systems at Midland Tank and Ironplate Co in Birmingham, Canal Engineering in Nottingham, and John King Chains in Pontefract. Request a free brochure from Prima Industrie UK ...
Prima UK director Joe Attuoni, believes it is the way forward for the laser cutting industry, "The CompactServer as well as our other Server systems, will ensure greater efficiency and productivity allowing our customers to compete and have an edge at the highest levels against foreign and UK competition in what has become a highly competitive market place.".
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