Laser cutting guide for manufacturing
Title:
Laser cutting guide for manufacturing
Author:
Caristan, Charles L.
ISBN:
9781613449646
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Publication Information:
Dearborn, MI : Society of Manufacturing Engineers, c2004.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xx, 447 p.) : ill.
Contents:
Overview of laser-cutting applications -- Market for laser cutting -- Materials -- Machines -- Methods -- Man -- Measurement -- Mother Nature -- Quality -- Productivity -- Profitability -- Safety and environment -- The six-sigma approach -- Basics of lasers -- Laser-beam propagation -- Nozzle gas dynamics.
Abstract:
"Laser Cutting Guide for Manufacturing presents practical information and troubleshooting and design tools from a quality manufacturing perspective. Equally applicable to small shops as it is to large fabricator companies, this guide is a roadmap for developing, implementing, operating, and maintaining a laser-cutting manufacturing enterprise. The book focuses on metal cutting of sheets, plates, tubes, and 3-D shaped stampings. It presents today's reality of the engineering and business challenges, and opportunities presented by the rapid penetration cutting in all facets of industry."--BOOK JACKET.
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Electronic Access:
Knovel http://app.knovel.com/web/toc.v/cid:kpLCGM0002