Simple and Flexible Laser Drilling Machine
- Small Footprint – Laser mounts inside workstation
- High-speed drilling – Easy switch over between part designs
- Compatible with all metal types – even magnetic materials
- Additional programmable cutting function to cut out completed filter or singulate smaller filters from a multi-part sheet
- Integrated tooling plate and mechanical clamps minimize requirements for individual part tooling
- Easy to install and operate
Transform Filter Production
OEM equipment makers, after-market job shop filter suppliers and industrial users with high consumptions of perforated metal filters, all can reduce filter-related costs with the LaserCube Driller.
Requiring minimum floorspace and only compressed air and electricity as utilities, the LaserCube Driller makes filter drilling easy and affordable and provides a cost-effective alternative for filter supplies.
IPG Fiber Lasers Enable High Speed Drilling
- IPG high-brightness and high peak power fiber lasers provide efficient laser drilling
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Highly focusable 1070 nm laser beam couples easily and drills fast, even on reflective metals
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Compact laser packaging allows the laser source to be mounted within the drilling workstation
- Zero-maintenance – no gases to replace, no mirrors to align, no consumables and no downtime
High-Accuracy Drilling for High-Quality Parts
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Drilled hole sizes from 80 to 300 µm diameter on filter parts up to 1000 x 1000 mm size
- Natural granite base provides stiffness and stability for precision part processing
- Synchronized laser firing and part positioning provide hole positional accuracy and high array uniformity
- Automatic height calibration and exceptional laser beam power stability result in hole size variations < 5%
Simple Operation and Part Programming
- Preset program recipes for typical material / thickness / hole type combinations
- Simple CAD file input defines part cutout lines and regions containing drilled holes
- Allows either large single-part or nested smaller part layouts
- Single input of hole-to-hole spacing distance enables automatic generation of drilling job file
- Recall of stored job files for fast repeat part processing
Small Footprint
LaserCube Driller is a highly productive system that produces parts up to 1 m in diameter, while having a footprint of only 3.0 x 3.9 m
- No additional space needed for electronic racks, vacuum load locks or vacuum pumps
- Laser sources fits inside workstation
- Extendable/retractable table for easy sheet loading
- Easily installed in typical manufacturing environments
High Reliability & High Availability
The LaserCube Driller is designed for maximum reliability and minimal preventive maintenance – maximizing the time available to drill production parts.
- Zero-maintenance IPG fiber laser
- Direct drive linear motors with no parts to wear or replace
- Open atmosphere processing with no vacuum systems
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Direct Drive Rotary Stage
High-precision, high-speed rotary stage with continuous motion synchronized to X-Y-Z axes
Servo-driven rotary stage
- Brushless direct drive.
- Travel +/- 360° continuous
- Rotation speed: 600 rpm max
- Accuracy: 10 arc-sec
- Bi-directional repeatability: 4 arc-sec
- Pneumatic ER25 Collet Chuck
- Includes an additional axis of motion control
LaserCube Software
The software that runs the LaserCube is a customized application called HMI2 (Human Machine Interface-2) that runs as a Microsoft Windows® 10 application. It is preloaded and tested at the IPG factory and resides in the workstation’s hard drive.
Used in combination with standard G-code programming, its capabilities provide the user with a comprehensive, easy-to-use programming and operator interface.
Easy-to-Use Programming and Operator Interface
- Fully integrated control of laser, motion systems, beam, delivery, process control modules and vision functions
- Live G/M code display with production controls for interrupt and resume
- Graphical display showing cuts to be made
- Stored, editable, library of cutting parameter tables for a wide variety of materials
- Automated machine-vision based alignment and nested job setup
- On-machine part nesting for arrayed parts
- Powerful, simple to operate, vision alignment software for combo part processing