Advantages / Benefits Of Plasma Cutting Technology
Plasma cutting is a proven technology that provides high quality and accuracy at an affordable cost. There are several contributing factors that make this technology affordable. It is fast, easy to program and requires no special tooling or lengthy set-up. And because of the high quality and accuracy of the process, it can reduce or even eliminate many subsequent processes.
Plasma cutting is ideal for fast turn-around work and prototypes. Programming is quick and easy and set-up is minimal (usually under five minutes). The entire process consists of creating the shape geometries in a CAD program and then downloading the converted machine (NC) code to the CNC controller. In many cases a part can go from design to finished product in under an hour.
Plasma cutting is not only easy and inexpensive to program, it is also extremely accurate and consistent. Equally important, with the right know-how it consistently produces a superior edge quality that requires little if any clean-up. All these benefits contribute to making this technology affordable for a wide number of applications.
Summary Of Plasma Cutting Benefits
Using state of the art optical and computerized equipment we can custom burn parts from a wide range of metals. Stainless, copper, brass, aluminum, cast iron and steel parts can be plasma cut in thickness' from gauge metals up to 1 1/4 inches thick. Steel and alloy plate can be cut using Oxfuel in thickness' from 1/4 inch up to 10 inches. We consider these machines to be HOT MELT MILLING MACHINES since they allow us to economically produce smooth edged, slag free parts from steel plate to very close tolerances. Many complex parts that would ordinarily be produced on milling machines, or huge drills can be quickly burned out from plate steel at a fraction of the cost and time of other processes. We can work from hand drawn templates, computer generated files, or even a simple sketch to produce parts to your specifications in any quantity. Examples of some of the products that can be flame, or plasma cut are:
