Sheet Metal Fabricating

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…

In Part 2 of our multi-part blog series on analyzing the metal fabricating value chain, we will analyze the flow of the raw material. More specifically, how efficiently is material…

So what does your metal fabricating value chain look like? Can you already determine where your improvements will come from? While the improvements may seem obvious, not all are visible…

As laser cutting technology has evolved over the years, so too have the machine and control technologies associated with automating laser cutting machine operations. Fiber laser technology in particular has…

Maintaining materials at the ready is essential to maintaining a consistent pace of production and reducing non-productive time.