Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Tube Cutting Technology Impressive at Ohio Laser LLC

By Graham McPatrick

Tube cutting services have been expanded at Ohio Laser LLC with the recent addition of advanced laser tube cutting technologies. While industrial laser tube cutting is complex, it offers significant costs savings in production for many manufacturing products.

Ohio Laser's new production tube cutting system processes carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminum tubes up to .625 inch, .25 inch and .125 inch thicknesses respectively. The laser tube cutting machine produces 3000 Watts of power for tube cutting.

Using the CAD driven tube cutting machine, Ohio Laser can process various shapes including oval tubes, round tubes, square tubes and rectangular tubes with outside dimensions of up to 6 inch round and between .75 and 4 inch square.

This laser tube cutting system lowers weld fixture investments and raises productivity by employing plug in connections or kinking capabilities.

This remarkable laser tube cutting system also features an automated pallet changer, complete programmable focusing and tube cutting speeds up to 2362 inches per minute.

The auto feeder can manage 21 foot long aluminum, stainless steel and carbon steel tubes that are up to .25 inches in wall thickness. Tubes up to 24 feet long can be accommodated using the manual loading feature.

A few of the many benefits of laser tube cutting include practically unrestricted types of cutting designs and patterns, total removal of stack up tolerances associated with multiple operations, smaller production quantities, no tooling charges and engineering of many different metal types.

Industrial production tube cutting technology at Ohio Laser also permits faster production of frames, racks, supports, trusses, manifolds or any other item from cut tubes.

Various manufactured components produced using laser tube cutting include all terrain vehicles (ATVs) like go karts and four wheelers, ornamental railing, medical beds, adjustable basketball systems, shelving, warehouse racking systems, wheel chairs, store fixtures, food guards, point of purchase display systems, outdoor signage and bed frames.

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