High speed laser cuts profiles delivery times

Yorkshire Laser and Fabrication company said that its Bystronic Byspeed 3015 4.4kW flat bed laser cutting machine has cut delivery times for sheet metal profiles.

Yorkshire Laser and Fabrication (YL and F) company reported that delivery times on thinner materials are reduced, while capacity has been increased from the same manufacturing area.

The reason is the company's investment in a Bystronic Byspeed 3015 4.4kW flat bed, high speed, CNC laser cutting machine.

Sales and technical director at YL and F, Matthew Orford, said that the decision to buy the Byspeed was not taken lightly by the company: "It was a sizeable amount of money to invest in a new machine centre and the justification had to stack up.

The first and arguably most important reason for looking at a new machine throughout 2007 was capacity".

He explained: "With two laser cutting machines working 'around the clock' it was obvious that more capacity was required, unfortunately there was little or no new space available to install a third machine, running on a second site was discounted for a number of reasons so that left us looking for machines that could significantly increase output over our existing six year old Platino".

Orford said that the second reason for new investment was to use high speed laser cutting.

As the company didn't have such a facility it was loosing sales.

The third reason, said Orford, was really a mixture of the first two.

As a leading UK supplier of sheet metal enclosures and assemblies, moving into high speed laser cutting, where the benefits are mainly felt in the thinner end of materials, would offer real advantages to our customers in terms of quality and delivery.

He added: "Whichever machine we chose there were certain aspects that we really wanted to be sure would be covered, this included reliability, ease of operation, service and support".

* Straightforward operation - after much deliberation it was decided that Bystronics Byspeed 3015 with a 4.4kW resonator was the best choice.

"Having recently bought a new Bystar 4020 4.4kW from Bystronic in December 2006 we already new how good many of the features would be on the Byspeed as many of them are shared with the Bystar," said Orford.

He continued: "Indeed operation of the machine is so straight forward that we didn't require the full five days training and we were in production in less than three weeks from taking delivery of the first parts of the machine.

Already running with Bystronics excellent software Bysoft getting parts moving through the machine proved equally easy from the programming side as well".

* About YL and F - Yorkshire Laser is a family run business based in Castleford, West Yorkshire, UK.

The company specialises in laser profiling and precision sheet metal work, serving companies both locally and nationally.

With a range of modern lasers and sheet metal working equipment as well as in house powder coating, they are ideally placed to suit all requirements from one offs to series production.

YL and F's location at the intersection of the A1 and M62 roads allows national UK distribution of high precision metal components and complete metal fabrications.

Manufacturing within an ISO 9002 TQM environment, in-house paint finishing is also available.

YLF is committed to investment in manufacturing excellence and customer satisfaction.

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