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Plasma Cutting Service

Custom plasma cutting for prototyping and production part fabrication

About Plasma Cutting

Our custom plasma cutting service offers a cost-effective on-demand fabrication solution for your sheet metal needs.

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Cutting Speed
  • Robotic plasma cutters are five times faster than traditional, manual torches, and are able to cut up to 500 inches per minute.
Wide Range of Material and Thickness
  • Plasma cutting robots can make precise cuts in a variety of metals and thicknesses. These plasma cutters use nitrogen, which enables them to cut steel, aluminum and other metals.
Ease of Use
  • Robot plasma cutters require marginal training, making them user-friendly.
Multi-tasking
  •  Robot plasma cutting systems are not just limited to cutting. They can be used as gauges, lining up material perfectly.
Safety
  • This cutting application uses gas that is not highly flammable, eliminating some of the safety hazards with gas cutting procedures.
Economical
  • Plasma cutting is a cost effective application – it is less expensive than laser or water-jet cutting.
Keeps Materials Cool
  •  Despite operating at high temperatures, plasma cutting robotic systems can keep the surface of materials cool. This prevents warping and damage to paint and other coatings.

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The quality of the plasma cut edge is similar to that achieved with the oxy-fuel process. However, as the plasma process cuts by melting, a characteristic feature is the greater degree of melting towards the top of the metal resulting in top edge rounding, poor edge squareness, or a bevel on the cut edge. As these limitations are associated with the degree of constriction of the arc, several torch designs are available to improve arc constriction to produce more uniform heating at the top and bottom of the cut.

Applications for Plasma Cutting

Enclosures

Sheet metal offers a cost-effective way to fabricate product device panels, boxes and cases for a variety of applications. We build enclosures of all styles, including rackmounts, “U” and “L” shapes, as well as consoles and consolets.

Chassis

The chassis we fabricate are typically used to house electromechanical controls, from small handheld devices to large industrial testing equipment. All chassis are built to critical dimensions to ensure hole pattern alignment between different parts.

Brackets

We build custom brackets and miscellaneous sheet metal components, well-suited for either lightweight applications or when a high degree of corrosion-resistance is needed. All hardware and fasteners that are needed can be fully built in.

Overview: What is Plasma Cutting?

The Basics Of Plasma Cutters:

Plasma cutting uses an accelerated jet of hot plasma to cut through electrically conductive materials. Plasma cutters are the fastest way to cut through gauge material up to 6″ thick and are more cost-efficient to run than high-powered CNC laser cutters. Plasma cutters do their best work on large sheet metal parts, versus CNC laser cutters which are better at more detailed work and creating holes — something plasma cutters struggle with.

How does Plasma Cutters Work?

When energy and heat are applied to a gas, the molecules travel faster and collide more violently, turning the gas into a plasma. Using compressed air or other inert gas, the plasma is accelerated out of the cutting nozzle toward the workpiece where it completes an electrical arc with the conductive workpiece. Similar to Electrical Discharge Machines, plasma cutters use electricity to melt and cut the workpiece.

Types Of the Plasma Cutters:

There are 2 main types of plasma cutters: 2-axis and 3-axis.

2-Axis: This is the most common and conventional form of a plasma cutter and operates like any traditional CNC sheet metal fabrication tools, producing flat profiles with straight edges. These plasma cutters are best for cutting large parts from thick material quickly and are more cost-efficient than CNC laser cutters for the same work.

3-Axis: This type of CNC plasma cutter adds in an additional axis of rotation which allows the cutting tool to tilt and cut edges at an angle. This is extremely useful for cutting chamfers, countersunk holes, or angled edges as part of weld preparation, which saves on secondary operations such as grinding or machining helping reduce overall cost.

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