How do I decide what power laser offers the best return on investment for me if I intend to automate?
Good question. There is no straightforward answer. Basically, it depends. How to decide… I’ll tell you how in a minute but the power level that you need for a certain production obviously depends entirely on the kind of volume you are processing and on the thickness range. This means if you are producing a thicker material, we prefer a bit more power. If you've cut a lot of nitrogen, we'll go for a little bit more power if the volume that needs to be cut is there.
How do you decide this? In fact, what we offer our customers is making studies. We can easily make studies for six, eight, ten kilowatts, for instance, to make the comparison. And then the customer can use this information to calculate the cost per part and how fast he would achieve return on investment.
This also goes together with automation, of course. You don't need to rush your sheets or your parts through the machine if the automation cannot follow. We offer a wide variety of possible solutions to automate the machine, starting from a simple load-unload device with a swivel arm up to the system we have demonstrated that is integrated in a warehouse. So depending on the specific situation this may impact the required power but the main factor is the customer’s production.
LVD offers versatile fiber laser cutting machines for flat sheet and tube cutting. Offered in a range of formats and capacities – from ultra-practical to super-high-speed and XXL – and designed to deliver quality cutting results for any application.