Laser Process Control
One of the keys to a reliable and productive laser process is integrated control of the laser, motion axes, assist gas, and process sensors. During development of the first laser system, the LASERDYNE 780, our engineers evaluated several commercially available, industrial CNCs for the system. All were found lacking, which lead to development of the LASERDYNE Laser Process Control (LPC).
The LASERDYNE S94P Laser Process Control (LPC) provides all of the features and capabilities of a multi-axis machine tool control (e.g. G and M codes, subroutines). On top of this, the S94P includes a host of features specific to precision 3D laser cutting, welding, and drilling. These features include many that are simply not available on laser systems that incorporate general purpose machine tool controls.
Software and hardware specific to precision laser processing continues to be a major area of investment for the company. The result has been steady flow of leading edge, applications-inspired capability such as LASERDYNE SmartTechniques™, OFC2 ABSOLUTE™, CylPerf™, ShapeSoft™, and the list goes on.
Here are links to articles about a few of the features for precision 3D laser cutting, welding, and drilling:
- SPC and MTConnect®
- Tracking Program and Processing Parameters with SPC
- SmartTechniques™ help speed up the laser processing, simplify the programming, and improve the part quality.
- Prima Power Laserdyne Adds FASTTRIM™ Software For Enhanced Laser Processing
- Getting Real-time Visibility On Laser Processes
- Using SmartComp™ to improve the part quality using rotary table
- Understanding User Logs and Error Logs – by Noah Benson
- Upgrade System 94P software to obtain the most from your Prima Power Laserdyne System
- Prima Power Laserdyne systems with the system 94P computers running Windows XP are upgradeable to the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.
- SmartComp™ Leads to Higher Precision in 3D Parts Processed With a Rotary Table
- An Alternative to Mechanical Probing: LASERDYNE® SmartSense™ and OFC2 ABSOLUTE™
- Two New Software Features That Will Make Life as a Programmer Easier
- New capability for on-the-fly percussion drilling of small holes using LASERDYNE CylPerf™ and fiber laser
- LinPerf™ Linear Perforation Programming
- Want Better Records of Your Laser Processes? Consider SPC Data Acquisition
- MT Connect Adapter – Enabling the Smart Factory
- An Easier Way To Program Circular Moves
- Using System Data Within a Part Program
- Initializing variables on a S94P control with $INIT
- Block Delete Levels
- $RUN and $SHUTDOWN
- $PUSHSTATE_$POPSTATE
- $INDATA and $INSDATA
- $STOP and $ABORT
The LASERDYNE S94P makes use of state-of-the-art hardware and laser processing specific software to integrate the laser, motion, assist gas, and process sensors in order to create the most productive laser processes.
