United Laser 5X5 Case Study

Vance Hirst, Plant Manager at United Laser had the following to say…

· “P.E.P. Technology knows what they are talking about!”

· “I see the production department’s productivity increasing with the P.E.P. Technology software”.

· “We will cut the time that it takes to do the next production lot in half”.

· “The parts are of superior edge quality and fit the plug gage the first time”.

· “We normally allow the operator 30-45 minutes to tweak in the cut condition for the ‘teeth’, or I have to come out and get this job cutting.

· “I would not have believed how much faster P.E.P. was able to run our laser if I had not seen it”!

· “How did you do that”?

The job above called for 4000 parts in lots of 1000. Each lot took more than 47 hours of cutting and four hours of manual deburring. The repeat job can now be cut in 24 hours, saving 23 hours of machine time plus hours of clean up as every part was perfect.

Vance took the P.E.P. challenge and cut the 5X5 part. The results proved everything that Vance was promised would happen and then some. After cutting the 5x5 part Vance and the owner asked the P.E.P. application engine to cut the production part shown above. Without any editing or testing of the cut conditions, the part was nested, posted and cut. As mentioned above the results were quite incredible.

MFG.	Model	Wattage	Year	Hours	Condition
Trumpf Laser	3050	5000	2005	2021 Beam On		Good