Often we are able to leverage our years of experience in the manufacturing industry to help our customers simplify processes, increase productivity, solve problems, and reduce costs. In addition to the manufacturing resources that CB Fabricating offers, we also provide our customers with valuable services to help them manage their manufacturing-related issues and increase profitability. Take advantage of our manufacturing industry expertise and connections to solve even your toughest logistical issues. By optimizing loads and minimizing trips, we can help you mitigate the high cost of transportation your products. We also offer expertise in getting your custom fabricated metal parts where you need them to go. Our location provides easy access to all of the Midwest-including Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, and Kentucky-and a convenient central location for shipping across the United States. By utilizing the best equipment, like the Amada FO MII 3015 NT Laser Flex Cell, and the latest technology, such as the Amada FabriWIN software, we can guarantee that your parts will be created to the precision standards you expect.ĬB Fabricating is conveniently located in Anderson, Indiana, just 30 minutes northeast of Indianapolis, the Crossroads of America. With a team of experts who take pride in their impeccable workmanship and an experienced and competent leadership team, we are able to produce parts matching your specifications. Often we can also help you reduce costs while improving productivity. We constantly seek to improve our products and our systems of production so that we may be the vendor of choice for our customers. Which brings me to another point, the cost per hour varies widely depending on what you plan on doing with your laser.īuying a laser isn't easy, do your homework and talk to as many users as possible.CB Fabricating fabricates high-quality precision metal parts on schedule and at a fair price. Our experienced manufacturing design specialists and our skilled metal fabrication technicians deliver quality metal fabricated products to our customers’ satisfaction. Laserninja- you mentioned the Amada uses a lot of n2 but I don't see it anywhere in your cost per hour sheet. How many parts of the machine are made by the manufacturer? Are they building a complete system in house or are they buying resonators, controls, whatever, bolting them together and slapping their name on it?Ĭan all maintenance be done by the user? Or does the machine require periodic factory service?Ĭan a user buy any replacement part they need or do certain parts have to be replaced by a factory rep? In addition to cost and production rate, there are many things to consider, i.e. Best advice is to talk to as many people as possible and see what experience they've had. I've never had to change a blower from contaminated gas.Īs far as operating cost, lasers that cost less to purchase/operate usually produce less. In the worst case, the heat exchangers would probably need to be replaced or cleaned as well as replacing the glass and optics. In my 23 years working on lasers, there was only one machine that needed more than glass and optics because of bad gas. I wrote a paper on my experience with them, if anyone wants a copy, send me a message.Ĭhris Krug RE: Trumpf or Bystronic ? woodie806 (Industrial) In my opinion, automatic gas change manifolds are more trouble than they're worth.
Remember the part where I said to check the power output after you put a new bottle of laser gas into service? This is why I don't recommend resonator gas supply systems that automatically switch between bottles.
On top of that, the smoking gun has left the building. When the bad bottle is empty you send it away, a few days later you run a job that needs 100% and the resonator can't do it. You wont realize the gas is bad running at 70%, and you'll empty that whole bottle along with all of it's contaminants into your resonator. Murphy dictates that this will be when your gas supplier will give you a bad bottle of resonator gas. I've seen customers run their laser at 100% power for weeks on end, then they'll switch to a job that only requires, say 70% power for a few weeks. Either way, after you learn what to look for you'll know when something isn't right.
On the older open loop controls checking the power is really easy, on the newer closed loop controls it takes a little bit more effort to see if the new bottle of gas is causing a lack of performance. Doing power checks on a regular basis and any time you put a new bottle of gas on the laser is the best thing you can do to get the most life out of your laser.
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The 4.4 is one of the most trouble free resonators ever built by Bystronic.Īs far as changing the glass, it has a lot to do with laser gas quality and at what power levels you will be using.
Problems with the servo drives/motors/tacho's are few and far between on the Bystronic.