Marlin Steel Uses Fastest Metal Fabrication Robot in the U.S.
Robot performs sheet metal fabrication, metal stamping, countersinking, metal forming, louvers, notching, holes, counterboring, stand offs, slitting, stiffening ribs and tapping holes.
Posted: August 13, 2010
Marlin Steel (Baltimore, MD) purchased the fastest precision sheet metal fabrication punching robot in the U.S. Punching at a speed of 900 spm while maintaining world-class quality of +/-0.004 in (0.1 mm) tolerance, Marlin Steel is now a dominant player in metal fabrication, metal stamping, metal forming and steel fabrication.
One of Marlin Steel?s mechanical engineers, Tony Witt, said that the ?tolerances of +/-0.004 in (0.1mm) sets us apart from the competition. No one can touch our quality."
Besides metal fabrication and metal stamping, Simon Matthews, Marlin Steel?s plant manager, said, ?The sheet metal work this new robot can do without any additional direct labor includes, countersinking and metal forming, louvers, notching, holes, counter boring, stand offs, slitting, stiffening ribs and even tapping holes – roll forming style."
Raw material sheet size can be as large as 100 in x 50 in, so more parts are yielded from a single sheet, lowering the cost per part. Marlin Steel?s software allows the parts to nested on the sheet in an optimized manner to maximum the yield of parts per sheet. Because the sheets are optimized, the client saves money.
In addition, the sheet metal forming machine can bend and stamp aluminum, stainless steel, low carbon mild steel as well as Lexan, glass, laminated material, plastic and even cardboard.
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