A high-precision, fully automatic machine that takes care of production autonomously – the new TruLaser Center 7030 offers efficient, automated and synchronous processes, from its programming all the way to sorted and stacked workpieces.
The machine works with a hybrid drive system to meet the ambitious development goal of eliminating all obstacles to smooth processing in laser cutting today. These include shutdowns due to collisions involving parts tilting over, refinishing work on microjoints, spatter on the undersides of components, and excessive programming work.
The TruLaser Center 7030 moves the sheet and the cutting head simultaneously even while the machine ejects small parts safely and sort them into containers. In addition, it disposes of residue and slag, sorts and stacks larger parts during machining; load itself with blank sheets in tight space, scrap skeletons; and the programming is also largely automatic.
Numerous innovative and patented solutions contribute to the coherence of the entire concept. Heinz-Jürgen Prokop, Head of Development and Procurement in the Trumpf Machine Tools division, says: “We were gradually having to face more and more calls for help from our customers, asking us for solutions that would create a secure overall process. It turned out that this wasn’t possible with the machine concepts we already had, so a complete re-think was required.”
The TruLaser Center 7030 works with a TruDisk solid-state laser, with 6 kW of laser power. With this machine, the company is addressing sheet metal fabricators from all sectors who cut sheets from one to 12 mm thick at high capacity.
AP Metalworking Equipment News, at EuroBLECH
Oct 26, 2016
