Improving the productivity of machining processes is one of the basic requirements in every machine-tool engineering specification. Scientists have integrated a laser module into the tool station of a ...

The milling head of the DMU 60 L combined milling-laser machine cuts material with high precision. Machine Design distills the cutting-edge landscape of advanced manufacturing through the eyes of ...

Until 2016, it was impossible to incorporate a femtosecond laser—an ultra-short pulse duration laser—onto a 5-axis machine. This was first realized by the Swiss group Georg Fischer in 2016, thereby ...

How one shop standardized repeatable setups without a toolroom by using operation-level tool lists, location discipline and a pragmatic ERP workflow.

A strong weld does not begin when the arc starts or the laser beam hits the joint. It begins earlier, when the metal su ...