System Details
How the machine loads, senses and cuts — and what the operator sees while it runs.
General Description
Quartz tubes are placed on a motorized bed which rotates them. Once the cutting cycle is started, the Quartz Cutter laser system positions a laser beam over each tube in sequence and cuts the tube automatically. The system senses each tube, skips missing tubes and compensates for variances in tube diameters.
Each tube is measured as the laser head is automatically fed down onto any tube. This process checks that a tube is present, and determines if the tube diameter is an expected value.
Larger tubes can fit only six (6) across, but 15mm and 19mm diameter tubes will fit twelve (12) across.
Screens and Routines to Improve Machine Maintenance
These data are viewable on the PLC Color Screen.
01 — Capture state of all switches
- Doors
- Motion limits
- Laser cooling water flow
02 — Manual control of axes
- Jogging of X axis and Z axis via remote
- Setup cycles with built in motion for assisting beam alignment when needed
03 — Process information
- Laser beam power (auto routine called by maintenance)
- Laser power supply current (monitored at all times)
Want to see it run?
We can walk you through the machine and the maintenance screens.