December 14, 2009

Tube Cutting Technology Impressive at Ohio Laser LLC

Filed under: Industrial design — Graham McPatrick @ 4:13 pm

Ohio Laser LLC recently added additional advanced laser tube cutting technologies. Even though laser tube cutting is a sophisticated process, cutting tubes with lasers greatly lowers production costs for a wide variety of products.

Ohio Laser’s new production tube cutting system processes carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminum tubes up to .625 inch, .25 inch and .125 inch thicknesses respectively. The laser tube cutting machine produces 3000 Watts of power for tube cutting.

This computer aided design driven tube cutting machinery can accommodate oval, rectangular, round, and square tubes with outside dimensions between .75 through 4 inch square and 6 inch round.

The kink or plug in connections which this tube cutting system generates reduces weld fixture costs and increases production output.

The leading edge industrial tube cutting system has totally programmable focusing, tube cutting speeds as fast as 2362 inches per minute, and an automated pallet changing function.

In this respect the auto feeder handles 21 foot long carbon steel tubes, stainless steel tubes and aluminum tubes that are up to .25 inches thick. A company wishing to process tubes up to 24 feet long can take advantage of the manual loading feature.

Some of the key laser tube cutting benefits include almost unlimited cutting configurations, elimination of stack up tolerances inherent in multiple operations, no tooling charges, reduced lot sizes and processing of a wide variety of metal alloys.

Using its unique industrial tube cutting capabilities, Ohio Laser can more efficiently manufacture manifolds, supports, frames, trusses, racks, or any other product built from tubular materials.

A few of the most common products produced using this laser tube cutting technology include playground equipment such as monkey bars, garment racks, hand railing, drafting boards, bar fixtures, point of purchase displays, sign stands, as well as other products built from tubes.

Your company can watch a tube cutting video which illustrates precision cuts holes, slots and complex contours in tubes and pipes without hard tooling or send your questions or requests regarding production tube cutting to author Graham McPatrick .

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December 9, 2009

Advanced Plate Cutting Services Expanded At Ohio Laser

Filed under: Industrial design — Graham McPatrick @ 9:00 pm

Ohio Laser recently expanded its advanced plate cutting capabilities for flat steel and other metals.

Plain-City, Ohio based Ohio Laser purchased a 6000 Watt Trumpf TruLaser 5040 system that now handles, stainless steel as thick as 1 inch, aluminum as thick 5/8 inches, and remarkably, carbon steel as thick as 1 inch. This ultra modern plate cutting technology processes at simultaneous speeds of up to 11811 inches each minute and can run at super fast axially parallel speeds of up to 7874 inches per minute.

The Trumpf TruLaser 5040 system now makes industrial plate cutting of metal possible using sheets up to 80″ x 160″ that weigh as much as 3968 pounds, allowing for the production of longer and wider parts.

Not only is the TruLaser 5040 more powerful, but it also equipped with a self-loading and unloading unit which cuts down production time and boosts output. In this regard Ohio Laser LLC provides world-class flat plate cutting services to companies that require exacting plate cutting tolerances and high quality repetitive processing.

North America’s largest multinationals rely on Ohio Laser to hold a large variety of metal gauges at high inventory levels. Thanks to Ohio Laser’s strong relationships the company can fulfill JIT orders with over 1,000,000 pounds of stock inventory available each business day. Ohio Laser keeps stock on common alloys including:

High Strength Low Alloy, Low carbon, and A36

304, 304L, 316 and additional stainless steels

Aluminum: 5052, 6061

Thicknesses of .002 – 1 inches

- 4 inches in diameter and up to inch wall thickness in square, rectangular and round tubular stainless and carbon steel products

Ohio Laser LLC can meet all fabricating needs with its advanced capabilities bending, heat treating and finishing, water jet cutting services, sanding and grinding, plus GMAW welding, FCAW welding and GTAW welding. Ohio Laser’s staff has more than 50 years combined experience engineering with 2D, 3D CAD/CAM drawings, and regularly works within PPAP Level I to Level IV.

Find out why leading companies in the medical devices, automotive, construction equipment, medium and heavy truck, material handling, aerospace industries and other precision manufacturing industries reply on us.

Whether your company requires advanced plate cutting services or Value Added Fabricating services, Ohio Laser will be an excellent partner. Inquire to author Graham McPatrick for additional plate cutting capabilities available at our company!

December 3, 2009

Advanced Technology Sets Laser Cutting Services Company Apart

Filed under: Industrial design — Graham McPatrick @ 11:42 pm

Ohio Laser LLC recently increased its range of highly advanced laser cutting machines for flat laser cutting.

The Central Ohio company started operation of a 6000 Watt Trumpf TruLaser 5040 system that processes carbon steel up to 1 inch, stainless steel up to 1 inch, and aluminum up to 5/8 inches. This state of the art laser cutting machine offers extremely fast axially parallel speeds of up to 7874 inches per minute and simultaneous speeds up to 11811 inches every 60 seconds.

Manufacturers now can outsource precision laser cut parts from Ohio Laser made from sheets up to 80 x 160 inches wide and as heavy as 3968 pounds, where exacting laser cutting tolerances, fits, and high quality repetitive processing are essential.

Not only is the TruLaser 5040 more powerful, but it also equipped with a self-loading and unloading unit which cuts down production time and boosts output. In this regard, Ohio Laser LLC provides world-class flat laser cutting services to companies that require exacting laser cutting tolerances and high quality repetitive processing.

Another major advantage that Ohio Laser offers is its high inventory levels of metal stock and large array of metal thicknesses. The company averages over 1,000,000 pounds of assorted materials on hand on any given day. Key vendor relationships allow Ohio Laser to continually remain in stock with commonly used alloys including:

.002 to 1 inch thicknesses

Stainless steel: 304, 304L, 316

Aluminum: 5052, 6061

Square, rectangular and round tubular products through 4 inches in diameter up to inch wall thickness in stainless and carbon steel

5052, 6061 and other aluminum

Ohio Laser LLC also offers fabricating and machining services including GMAW welding, FCAW welding and GTAW welding, bending, heat treating and finishing, water jet cutting services, and sanding and grinding. Ohio Laser has decades of experience engineering 2D, 3D CAD/CAM drawings and is accustom to PPAP Level I to Level IV.

Ohio Laser LLC provides laser cutting services and high tech fabrication solutions for leaders of the medical devices, automotive, construction equipment, medium and heavy truck, material handling, and aerospace industries.

If your company requires advanced laser cutting services or Value Added Fabricating services, Ohio Laser is an ideal partner. Ask author Graham McPatrick about additional laser cutting capabilities available at our company!

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November 21, 2009

MIG Welding Allows Ohio Laser to Produce Quality Parts

Filed under: Industrial design — Graham Mc Patrick @ 10:02 pm

MIG is short for “metal inert gas.” During World War Two, manufacturers of equipment and weapon systems were searching for ways to increase production of aluminum and other non-ferrous parts required for the massive war effort. Early on in the war a number companies developed MIG welding to weld parts faster and more accurately. The development of the MIG welding process played an important role in the successful war effort by the United States and her Allies.

In the case of the System10 MIG welding cell, an automated robotic welding arm moves a “gun” fixed on a contact tip into place to make welds. At the end of the contact tip a solid-steel wire is fed through a liner.

When MIG welding commences, electricity charges the contact tip on the gun, liquefies the wire, and creates a weld puddle. At the same time inert gas flows out of the tip of the gun, sealing off the weld puddle from the atmosphere, allowing for a weld to join two metal pieces together.

Companies are using advanced welding cells designed for high speed, long production runs of high quality welded parts. This modern mig welding technology offers numerous advantages to companies in need of affordable precision welding.

Cells such as the Lincoln Electric System10 at Ohio Laser have many feature:

For precision welding in smaller spaces, a Fanuc ARC Mate 100 iB/6s robot with a 37″ reach

Dual fixed welding work station with automatic interlocked access doors permit you to simultaneously load and unload parts while welding

A metal surround flash barrier and bi-fold doors with interlocks

450 amp, 100% duty cycle STT welding technology power supply

Less distortion, smoke and splatter

To enable cost effective welding, specialized tooling, engineering and programming capabilities are available

Automated arc welding capabilities add to the universe of value added fabrication services at Ohio Laser. The company’s wide array of fabricating competencies include flat sheet metal, tube and pipe laser cutting, advanced high accuracy bending, engineering with 2D, 3D CAD/CAM software, complying with PPAP from Level I to Level IV and offering welding processes GMAW, FCAW, and GTAW.

In addition the company does heat treating and finishing, water jet cutting, sanding and grinding services, assembly and packaging, and machining of various alloys.

Ohio Laser serves many manufacturing industries in the United States and Canada including food equipment, point of display, automobile, heavy industrial equipment, retail, and medical devices.

If you need to learn more on MIG welding or even the state-of-the-art laser cutting services at Ohio Laser, feel free to contact author Graham Mc Patrick via the website.

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October 31, 2009

Industrial Design As A Profession

Filed under: Industrial design — Agatha Anderson @ 6:29 pm

Industrial design has been experiencing unprecedented growth in recent times. It involves designing of a number of commercial and consumer goods and it is a crucial element of automobiles, electronic goods, and goods for regular use in homes and offices, in addition to many other sectors. It provides job opportunities with big firms and even MNCs, not only to experienced candidates but also to young graduates.

Industrial design allows the designers to prove their skills and also to achieve higher revenues for the manufacturers, which in turn makes the competition in the field all the more intense as designers vie to work with the biggest companies. However, a few things need to be taken into consideration before selecting industrial design as a full time profession.

You have to be among the best in your field as big firms engage people with a lot of talent, who have also shown that they are dedicated to the profession. Hence, you should go for industrial design only if you are sure of your liking for the profession in addition to other basic demands of the job like creativity. Though computers are now available to simplify your task, you must have a knack for sketching. This would help you in maintaining a sketch of your ideas the moment they flash in your mind and enable you to revisit them quickly.

You should be able to achieve the perfect blend of aesthetics and utility and incorporate it in any product given to you for fresh design or for enhancements. This implies you need to think differently and create something that is an instant attention catcher for the maximum possible number of consumers.

Quite like other professional fields, industrial design also requires training and dedication for years. Education plays an important role in the field, and it requires you to enrol in a recognized institute from where you can get your first big break in the industry.

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October 28, 2009

Basics Of Industrial Design Rights And How You Can Protect Yours

Filed under: Industrial design — Rassmond Gauss @ 1:55 am

Any external design of an item comprises of the aesthetic aspects of shape, design and colour, all combined in a symmetrical and multidimensional form. Industrial designers use these aspects to create unique designs of commercial products.

Industrial design rights are a type of intellectual property rights that accrue to a person or firm, once a particular design is created, granting them sole rights of usage over that design. Generally design centric items like clothing, jewellery, etc are safeguarded by these rights, however the protection can also be extended for other features of an item like the shape of a bottle or the design of a gadget.

An original design can be secured in all the participant nations of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) by filing a proper application with the organization. However, if the rights holder wants to protect his rights over the design and does not want to go through WIPO, he or she can seek protection from the government or administration in each of the required nations.

There are numerous advantages associated with industrial design rights which cannot be overlooked. Having a registered industrial design protects the way a product looks, including all the aesthetic factors associated with it. The owner of the design gets the authority to file a lawsuit against any unlawful use. This enables the registered owner to prevent others from making use of his or her design and reap the maximum commercial benefits out of his design.

Industrial design rights also foster healthy competition and just commercial practices, which eventually help the consumers. They also encourage innovation by preventing illegal use of the registered product. These rights acknowledge the hard work of the creative team associated with the designed product, and pave the way for these efforts to be rewarded adequately.

Hence, like most other types of IPR, industrial design also encourages earnest efforts and investments made by the design team and discourages attempts of plagiarism, thereby ensuring smooth running of global commerce.

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