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Article: Sizing up laser cutting with big beds: big developments in laser cutting systems give metal service centers greater flexibility, speed and capacity.
- Article from:
- Metal Center News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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Laser cutting gives metal centers a highly productive and versatile tool for meeting customers' material needs--especially the latest generation of high-powered, big-bed lasers.
Metal centers are being asked to perform greater pre-processing of material before it hits the customer's plant floor, especially customers moving toward lean manufacturing by focusing on their core competencies. Many metal centers are exploiting the advantages that laser cutting can offer:
* Increased income from value-added work and closer, more interdependent relationships with customers.
* Faster "done in one" material processing to ...