Progress has brought many benefits, allowing us to move faster and more comfortably with increasingly sophisticated and easy-to-drive cars. Similarly, industrial production has become more efficient and cleaner with automated systems capable of achieving high productivity in safe and sustainable working conditions.
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Laser cutting tube? It's easier than you think!
Sep 19, 2021 11:06:13 PM
Topics:
reliability
Automotive
transfer
lathe
metalworking
racing cars
laser cutting parameters
precision machines
machine tools
milling machine
CNC machines
cutting
trimming
deformation
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How to optimize material usage in tube laser-cutting
Sep 8, 2021 7:17:18 PM
One of the crucial aspects of batch preparation for tube laser-cutting is the choice of bars for nesting. Material is the main cost factor in a work order and so its optimal management is essential to achieve a positive profit and yield.
With this crucial factor in mind, BLM GROUP has developed ProTube, for nesting, preparing production batches and monitoring them. The software implements advanced functions to make the best use of raw material at all stages of processing (supply, nesting and processing).
Topics:
industry 4.0
tube laser cutting
Tube production
software
metalworking
nesting
end-of-bar pieces
scrap advance
laser-cutting of bars
subcontractors
single supplier
ProTube
beam traceability
bar selection
warehouse logistics
stock
codes of the bars
scrap reduction
common cut
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Bending tool management software for tube fabricators
Jul 28, 2021 11:58:00 AM
Someone not familiar with the tube bending process is unable to imagine the complexity of maintaining the bending tool sets and using them to meet the production department’s requirements. This complexity is further multiplied when using different tube bending machines with different characteristics and needing sets to be tooled in time, whether the production batch is small or large.
Topics:
tube
tube benders
Tool Room
MES
metalworking
tube bending tools
tube bender programming software
pressure die
mandrel
collet
wiper die
tube bending radius
tooling
tube bending tools management
tube bending scheduling
clamp die
tube bending tool components
tube bending tool usage
tube bending tools lifetime
tube bending tools maintenance
tube bending tools database
spacers
ball mandrels
tube guides
interface plates
designer
programmer
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Automotive mass customization and 3D laser cutting
Jul 21, 2021 8:49:59 AM
Would you let someone else choose your next car for you? Probably not. And you probably wouldn't want everyone around you to have the same model as you. It would lose some of its allure, don't you think?
Topics:
Automotive
3D laser cutting
fiber laser cutting
3D laser cutting cells
car components
SUV
bullbar
mass customization
mufflers
car exhausts
three-dimensional metal profiles
laser cutting without manual repositioning
LT3D
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A compact bending head to produce new geometries
Jul 2, 2021 3:55:22 PM
In the furniture and similar sectors, where the tubes to be bent are often very long and curved into sometimes particularly complex shapes, the bending head must take up as little space as possible to leave room for the shape that the bent tube will assume.
Topics:
design
furniture
tube bending machines
tube benders
industrial vehicles
farming machines
contractors
metalworking
tube bending tools
din collet
bending head
Small encumbrance
cycle time
production management
furniture manufacturers
producing furnishing objects with tubes
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Lasertube LT8 – choose the configuration that suits your requirement
Jun 25, 2021 9:13:59 AM
BLM GROUP debuted the LT8 in 2006. It became an instant success. Over the years the technology evolved and the LT8 became LT8.10 and later the LT8.20. The LT8 family is the most popular Laser tube cutting system in the world.
Topics:
metal cutting
flexibility
tube
efficiency
laser cutting
lasertube
tubular frame
LT8.10
success story
metal working
cross section
automatic tube loader
automatic tube unloader
kit concept
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Tubular Frame Fabrication: Endless Innovation with Lasertube & Artube
Jun 9, 2021 4:07:45 PM
When you think of tube, normally you think of it as a fluid carrier – a water pipe, a gas line or a fuel line. You don’t think of a tube as a structural element, even if we see several examples of tube being used as a structural element in our daily lives.
Topics:
lasertube
tubular frame
Artube
drilling
metal processing
software
Laser cutting of frame components
Tube joints
slot and tabs
frame welding
measuring
marking
saw cutting
deburring
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The differences between laser and plasma in tube cutting
May 20, 2021 9:31:41 PM
The differences between laser and plasma cutting in sheet metal are well known but what are the criteria for choosing between them when cutting tubes and profiles?
Laser cutting and plasma cutting are two technologically different metal cutting methods. As can be expected, the characteristics of the cut, the types of applications and the benefits they can offer are also different.
Topics:
laser cutting
welding
lasertube
tube laser cutting
structural
kerf
Plasma cutting of section bars
constructions
Installation
Laser vs. plasma
metalworking
plasma cutting of beams
laser cutting of tubes
differences between laser and plasma
threaded holes
plasmatube
laser cutting of beams
laser cutting of section bars
characteristics of laser cutting
characteristics of plasma cutting
laser pipe cutting
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Automation is renewed and slashes production costs
May 5, 2021 6:00:11 PM
It has been years since there has been such an upheaval in the world of automation and not only in the manufacturing field. We can talk about a real "Renaissance" or – as it has been called by theorists – a new industrial revolution, (the fourth to be precise).
New technologies, process data collection and analysis, increasingly sophisticated simulations, digital twins, widespread connectivity at various levels (WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet and soon 5G), all accompanied by the ever-present and promising growth of artificial intelligence.
Topics:
efficiency
automation
Automotive
industry 4.0
CAD/CAM software
energy
new technologies
agriculture machines
artificial intelligence
software
product differentiation
digital twins
perceived complexity
steam engine
tailor-made
industrial revolution
supply chain
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7 min read
Steel construction profits from laser quality
Apr 26, 2021 6:30:33 PM
With the introduction of the newest generation of laser cutting machines for tube and sheet materials, more and more steel construction companies are seeing the benefits of high precision cutting with a laser.
Topics:
steel constructions
sheet laser cutting
LS5
LC5
metal processing
plasma vs laser
high power laser source
stainless steel laser cutting
intube
laser-quality
punching machine
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