SET Enterprises Buys Coil Blanking System
The LaserCoil system is being installed in their Michigan facility that processes automotive blanks.
Posted: May 11, 2015
LaserCoil Technologies LLC (Perrysburg, OH) has received an order for a LaserCoil coil-fed blanking system from SET Enterprises, Inc. (Warren, MI), a processor of flat rolled metal primarily for the automotive industry. The 2,100 mm wide dual-head system features two 6 kW lasers and being installed in the New Boston, MI, facility where SET processes blanks for the automotive industry.
“This system gives us the ability to provide our customers with superior blank quality in all grades of advanced engineered materials,” said Victor Edozien, the chairman and chief executive officer of SET. “This capability is critical in an increasingly dynamic automotive industry that is transitioning to support advanced high strength steels and aluminum alloys. The capability and flexibility of this system, in combination with our operating experience, gives us the manufacturing agility and responsiveness to rapidly meet our customers’ most complex metal processing needs. In addition to the advanced processing capabilities provided by the system hardware, the control system and laser blanking operating system software allow us to maximize our blanking efficiency. Our lines will deliver solutions to our customers in a fraction of the time required by traditional blanking.”
An additional benefit of the software programming capabilities is the ability to maximize raw material usage and reduce scrap. As automotive OEMs increase the use of aluminum and advanced high strength steels, optimizing metal processing yields and reducing scrap is a critical consideration.
This system’s coil-fed laser cutting technology, featuring numerous patents, is based on over half a decade of research and successful production runs since 2012. Gantry-mounted laser heads stationed in multiple cutting cells travel along the moving strip to balance the workload for improved productivity. Its dynamic profile conveyor features adjustable lanes that support the coil strip while automatically re-positioning as needed to clear a path for the laser cut. This function also facilitates gravity-shedding of scrap and offal, delivering only totally finished blanks at the end of the process.
The robust design enables higher production rates than other laser cutting equipment making the coil fed laser blanking system a viable alternative for processing a wide variety of coil material in aluminum, mild steel, high-strength steels and other sheet materials, in thicknesses from 0.5 mm to 3.5 mm and up to 2,100 mm wide coil at any length.
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