The use of metal laser welding machines in precise manufacturing is a game changer that is disrupting how the industry uses strategic equipment. In modern industry today, firms can no longer afford to ignore competence and should strategically choose to invest in laser welding machinery to improve competitiveness. Conventional welding processes (TIG/MIG) have serious challenges including uncontrolled thermal deformation primarily due to inefficient heat dissipation, excessive welding refinements (welding defects), unpredictable changes to complex geometric shapes, and efficiency in regard to ultra-thin materials, reflective metal, and increasingly complex geometric structures.
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We were restoring a 19th century cast iron bridge. Chemical stripping could have caused damage to the structure, sandblasting would have obliterated many details. The portable laser cleaning machine removed one hundred years of rust and paint in less than a week, without touching the cast iron beneath. There was no toxic waste, and no reusable media expense (e.g., sand). We recouped our ROI in eight months!
Before lasers, paint stripping components for an aircraft took 3 days per unit in either chemical baths or scraping by hand. To remove paint on a turbine housing, the automated laser cleaning system cleans in 4 hours, there is no disassembly and no damage to the substrate, it is FAA compliant, and we reduced hazardous waste by 100%. It changed the game for us!
