April 2023

Industrial Lasers Power Up

While the more exotic breakthroughs in industrial lasers tend to get the headlines, small to mid-size fabricators continue to harness the time- and labor-saving benefits of workhorse cutting, welding and marking systems from suppliers who combine intensive process guidance with smarter operating software. Advances that include IPG’s hand-held LightWELD 1500 unit, higher throughput additive manufacturing …

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Ultra-High-Power Fiber Lasers Change the Competitive Landscape of Cutting

With the introduction of kilowatt-level fiber lasers in the early 2000s and their subsequent integration into cutting tools in the late 2000s, fiber lasers have transformed laser cutting from a niche method to a mainstream fabrication process. Since then, fiber lasers have dominated the laser cutting of sheet metals because of their ease of integration, …

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