ORLANDO, FL, Jun. 13, 2014 — LIA Past President and laser-market expert David Belforte will again provide a comprehensive and highly insightful keynote address at the Laser Institute of America’s fourth-annual Lasers for Manufacturing Event® (LME®) on Sept. 23 in Schaumburg, IL. Belforte’s address will spotlight the 2014 market for industrial lasers and applications. His […]
Month: June 2014
Save the Date for LIA’s Lasers for Manufacturing Summit
ORLANDO, FL, June 12, 2014 — A brand-new Lasers for Manufacturing Summit to be held Sept. 22 by the Laser Institute of America will bring together C-suite and other top executives who want to hear first-hand expert intelligence on how to use these powerful tools most profitably in a variety of high-value manufacturing applications. […]
Powder-bed machine’s journey symbolizes N.J. firm’s path toward additive manufacturing
As RAPID 2014 wraps up today in Detroit, revisiting the journey of an SLM 280 powder-bed fusion machine purchased at last year’s event by Imperial Machine & Tool of Columbia, N.J., illustrates some of the motives driving U.S. manufacturers toward additive technology. Imperial is heavily involved in advanced manufacturing — particularly for the Department of […]
Sapphire Cutting with Pulsed Fiber Lasers
By Christoph Ruettimann, Noémie Dury and Markus Danner With almost 40 years of experience in precision processing of synthetic crystalline materials, Swiss laser manufacturer ROFIN-LASAG AG has developed a process for cutting sapphire glass, which is now increasingly used in mobile electronic devices and high-quality mechanical watches. Synthetic sapphire is a mono-crystalline aluminum oxide with […]
Non-Disruptive, Low Loss In-Line Laser Beam Monitoring System for Industrial Laser Processing
By Michael Scaggs and Gilbert Haas The BWA-MON (Beam Waist Analyzer MONitor) system is a “smart” focus head that provides “real-time” laser beam measurement, analysis and monitoring of low to very high power lasers in accordance with international standards ISO11146 and ISO13694 related to lasers without disrupting the laser beam in use and with minimal […]