High Peak Power Provides Faster and Cleaner Piercing on Thick Metals
Traditional, low peak piercing is slow to punch through thick metals and creates an opening that allows debris to make its way to the top. Material cannot be expelled from the bottom, which causes spatter and welds the debris to the top surface. The hole produced by the pierce can be inconsistent and imperfect.
High Peak Power punches through thick metals faster and creates a smaller opening, reducing the amount of debris that makes it way to the top. Establishment of a gas flow channel expels the melt from the bottom, which significantly reduces the amount of spatter. The resulting hole produces by the HPP pierce is clean and consistent.
High Peak Power Increases Overall Quality and Allows Machining of Fine Features
The reduced heat input of HPP ensures consistency of finished parts with numerous holes and contours, which enables processing of painted and coated materials.
High quality piercing and cutting provided by HPP reduces cycle times by not reworking parts and reduces wasted materials.
High Peak Power Enables Dense Part Nesting in Thick Materials
With small, clean and consistent piercing, HPP creates shorter part lead-in. For example, traditional piercing creates lead-in greater than 5 mm, whereas HPP lead-ins are just 1 mm in 6 mm thick metals.
This dramatically reduces material waste up to 25%, reducing overall operating costs and decreasing the cost-per-part.