Design and manufacturing tools for laser beam processing

Stefan Kaierle; B. Fuerst; Jochen Kittel; Ernst-Wolfgang Kreutz; Reinhart Poprawe

doi:10.1117/12.359516

20 August 1999 Design and manufacturing tools for laser beam processing

Stefan Kaierle, B. Fuerst, Jochen Kittel, Ernst-Wolfgang Kreutz, Reinhart Poprawe

Proceedings Volume 3833, Intelligent Systems in Design and Manufacturing II; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.359516
Event: Photonics East '99, 1999, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

Today's situation with increasingly shorter time-to-market limits and growing variant spectra calls for advanced methods in the manufacturing domain. A big potential for gaining faster and better manufacturing results lies in the application of offline programming, especially if processing small lot sizes. Offline programming offers as main advantage a notable reduction of deadlock times of manufacturing systems. Applying this technology there is no time consumptive teach-in on the robots necessary. A technology module based on CAD/CAM technique--mainly for 3D welding applications--is described which permits to carry out offline path and process planning including simulation and visualization of the processing task.

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Stefan Kaierle, B. Fuerst, Jochen Kittel, Ernst-Wolfgang Kreutz, and Reinhart Poprawe "Design and manufacturing tools for laser beam processing", Proc. SPIE 3833, Intelligent Systems in Design and Manufacturing II, (20 August 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.359516

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