Add more value using the right amount of automation in all the right places!
Adding high speed laser cutting to your manufacturing process can easily outpace your current operations. Nozzle changes, nozzle inspection, blue-flame test, lens grinding, parts programming, nesting, loading, unloading, scrap removal, and parts stacking/sorting add considerable time when done manually. This leads to less "green light time," or worse, manufacturing by compromise, costing you the benefits gained by high speed laser cutting.  
Mazak Optonics looks at the whole picture of high speed laser cutting, and provides software and automation along with the high speed lasers that improves operations and reduces time spent unproductively. The bottom line means more green light time and higher productivity on the shop floor.

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You can choose from lasers that automate and shorten the set-up process, material handling/automation components that load raw materials and unload and sort/stack finished parts, and much more! The table below will help you determine how much automation you need.

  Pallet Shuttle Load/Unload Cell Mazak Laser FMS III Double Tower FMS III HyperGear with FMS & OptoPath
Select/find raw material manual manual automatic automatic automatic
From storage, retrieve and queue material for the next job manual manual automatic automatic automatic
Place raw sheet on bed manual automatic automatic automatic automatic
Pre-origin raw sheet to reduced laser idle time manual automatic automatic automatic automatic
Find nested cutting program for next job manual manual automatic automatic automatic
Download NC cutting program for next job manual manual automatic automatic automatic
Coordinate sheet, next cutting program and next available laser manual manual automatic automatic automatic
Retrieve latest NC program from engineering dept. manual manual automatic automatic automatic
Quickly remove cut sheets to reduce laser idle time semi-automatic automatic automatic automatic automatic
Stack cut sheets manual automatic automatic automatic automatic
Sort cut sheets manual manual manual automatic automatic
Remove and sort cut parts manual manual manual manual automatic
Discard skeleton manual manual manual manual automatic
Link to LAN or cyberspace no no yes yes yes
Issue processing data & time report no no yes yes yes
Issue finished part location report no no no no yes
EFFICIENCY RATING 50 70 80 85 100

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