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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 SW SWTOFU#001

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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 CV CVBOFU#007

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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 ELECT CV CVBOFU#006

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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 LT

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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 SW SWTOFU#002

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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 JT

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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 LT

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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 CH LC LCSS#002

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Techniques and technologies for bending tubular heating elements

Apr 19, 2021 11:21:33 AM

Tubular heating elements are components that convert electrical energy into thermal energy for heating liquids or gases.

Topics: vgp3d wire bending household appliances heating elements twin-head wire bending machine fixed radius bending DH4012 DH4010 twin head heating element bending machine tubular heating elements bending of tubular heating elements DH40 bending heating elements twin-head tube bending machine variable radius bending how to bend heating elements WR WRBOFU#001

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