Sheet Metal Fabricating

Realizing the vision of a Smart Factory requires planning and also defining the business model that it will eventually serve. What are the goals and objectives? Do you want to…

How efficient is your material flow to the laser cutting system and how efficient is the unloading, sorting, and stacking of the finished cut parts? For the most part, laser…

Gaining the Competitive Edge Gaining the edge in today’s competitive market requires intelligence derived from data and the ability to act upon information to improve processes and machine performance. If…

Advancements in high-power Fiber laser cutting technology continue at an incredible pace and the benefits are quickly being realized by fabricators. Power levels up to 20kW are quickly being adopted…

One way to increase efficiency in laser cutting systems is to eliminate bottlenecks by incorporating material handling automation. Laser cutting systems without material handling automation display the most variability in…

Maintaining consistent material flow With today’s Fiber laser cutting machines and their capability to process a vast amount of sheet metal on a daily basis, maintaining materials at the ready…

Advancements in Fiber laser cutting technology continue at an incredible pace and the benefits are quickly being realized by fabricators. Our latest 15kW Fiber laser cutting machines not only represent…

Gaining the edge in today’s competitive market requires intelligence derived from data and the ability to act upon information to improve processes and machine performance. Measuring the Data If you’re…

As mentioned in our previous series, we’ve identified some of the most common areas for process variability and bottlenecks in the metal fabricating value chain. Press brake efficiency and capacity…

In continuation of our multi-part series on analyzing the value chain, we now look at manual CNC press brake bending operations. CNC bending operations continue to be a mostly manually…