Auxiliary Systems: The Critical Role of Water Chillers In the pursuit of noble precision and strategic reliability (intouchray.com), heat is the primary enemy. While a high-power fiber laser (Article #23) is significantly more efficient than older CO2 technology (Article #27),…
Managing Residual Stress: Pre-Heating and Post-Cladding Heat Treatment (PWHT) Strategies Laser cladding is fundamentally a thermal process. The concentrated energy of the high-power fiber laser (Article #02, #08) rapidly melts a localized volume of powder and substrate (Article #04), creating…
High-power fiber lasers, like the 6kW to 12kW+ systems used by Intouchray for both heavy plate cutting (Article #04) and high-speed robotic cladding (Article #05), generate immense amounts of heat. In a fiber laser, approximately 70% of the input electrical…