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[Juan Cerda]

does anyone have pics of their laser layouts? how are you guys loading full sheets w/o automation?
pics/video would be great as we have pretty limited space and need to figure out how to lay out the laser and leave enough room to load the material. any one use roller tables?
thanks

 

[LaserSpyder]

fork lift and a little bit of skill and you can easily pick up and set down sheets on laser no rollers needed at all

 

[Juan Cerda]

thanks for the response, been looking at the automatic loaders and those are NOT cheap, hence the reason we were thinking about rollers on a scissor lift.

 

[TheLaserburns]

We have a Vacuum lift to load our sheets. Will lift up to 300kg

If you ask me to do something, I will do it. There's no need to nag me every 6 months

 

[Juan Cerda]

nice, we are figuring right now that loading/unloading will be our bottle neck, we only have punch machines and this will be our first laser so we are trying to figure out how to load/unload w/o spending 150k for the auto unloader or 70k for the crane system

 

[krugtech]

job shop- use the jib crane and suction frame as shown. production shop- start looking at a simple loader with a stock table and consider everything from that to full automation.

Chris Krug

http://krugtech.com/

Maximum Up-time, Minimum BS

 

[TheLaserburns]

No bottle neck using this method. You can normally unload the cut parts before the cutting of the next sheet is finished. Depending on how many parts are on it of coarse. We store our most common cut steel right next to the loading bed ( you can see it just on right of the pic )and other steels get placed right in front of it as in the pic. Steel bins are just outside the door. We have been operating like this for near on 4 years and it works well for us. We where loading with a forklift before the Jib was installed. 2 operators hit the loading bed and knocked it out of alignment so we got it installed.

All depends on how much space you have for storing you steel stock whether it's viable to get an auto loader.

If you ask me to do something, I will do it. There's no need to nag me every 6 months

 

[Juan Cerda]

we get to see everything in Chicago next weekend, our parts are generally 12-14 ga so sheet run time is less than 8 minutes to run about 15 parts .