21.06.2010 Ditzingen - Job shops and product manufacturers often cut parts out of thin sheet for medical products, brown goods and white goods, ventilation systems or façade elements. For all these, it is now possible to reduce the cost of producing these parts by up to 20 percent. This is because in April 2010, at its in-house trade fair INTECH, TRUMPF introduced its new 2D laser processing system, TruLaser 5030 with the fiber-guided TruDisk solid state laser. Thanks to its high dynamics, the machine makes full use of the solid state laser's advantages and achieves very high cutting speeds in thin sheet.

In fusion cutting of stainless steel up to 4 mm thick, the TruLaser 5030 fiber achieves feed rates up to three times faster than the CO2 version. This reduces the table time up to 45 percent and decreases the cost per part significantly. And the new machine cuts not only construction steel, stainless steel and aluminum cost-effectively but also non-ferrous metals such as copper and brass. This expands material flexibility for the user. 

The core of the TruLaser 5030 is a fiber-guided TruDisk solid state laser with an output rating of 3 kw. With the 2D laser cutting system, users can process sheets measuring 3,000 mm x 1,500 mm. To keep processing time as low as possible and increase the flow-rate of parts, the TruLaser 5030 fiber has features that have already proven themselves in the CO2 laser version: a one-cutting head strategy, automatic tip changer and all cutting data for a smooth cutting start.

Since the complex beam guidance of a CO2 machine drops out and the laser beam is guided by a fiber, the TRUMPF developers were able to work in new, constructive directions. Their results set new standards, even for design, that is attractive for its streamlined and compact construction. And there are very concrete advantages for the user, since TruLaser 5030 fiber has a 20 percent smaller footprint. In addition, thanks to its flexible beam line, the solid state laser can be placed independently of the machine. But something even more important: the machine and the solid state laser come from the same source, so that the two components are optimally adjusted to each other. And the user only has to work with a single contact person at TRUMPF.

In principle, the TruLaser 5030 can cut the same sheet thicknesses as the equally performing CO2 laser version. The differences lie in the quality of the components and the productivity for different sheet thicknesses. The 1.03 μm wavelength of the solid state laser makes it possible to cut thin sheet, using fusion cutting and nitrogen, quickly and at the same time at high part quality. When flame cutting construction steel there are no decisive differences over the range of thicknesses between the two laser technologies.

However, from a sheet thickness of about 4 mm, the advantages of CO2 lasers in fusion cutting become important, particularly because of the better quality of the cut parts.

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