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IoT for Plasma: How Connected Systems and Software Can Increase Uptime and Improve Productivity
Plasma technology is rapidly expanding with greater connectivity than ever before. And many of these capabilities can have a direct impact on your bottom line. Plasma IoT data can provide valuable system health data such as voltage, temperature, and error information. While connected CAM software is capable of tracking machine status, production time, and part completion in real-time. Join us to learn more and see how you can take advantage of these technologies.
Tom Stillwell and Jorge Santana – Hypertherm
Cutting Hole Penetrations into Vessel Heads Creates Challenges in 3-D
Production of pressure vessels and boilers are major industrial applications where cutting 3D objects is an essential part of the process. Dome cutting involves creating openings in the dish ends of the vessel to allow for welding of inlet pipes or trimming of the edges for weld preparation to the vessel. Today, this mostly manual process of measuring the dish ends for hole locations and then hand plasma cutting is not only time consuming and costly, but also results in less desirable accuracy and weld preparation edge quality. Welding to the vessel body using V, X, or K-cuts with constant or variable bevels need to be produced with prescribed accuracy to meet welding requirements. Automation of this entire process can now be realized on a gantry style cutting machine utilizing new technologies that can scan (cloud-map) the dish ends and auto-calibrate the plasma torch to produce consistent and accurate results.
John Prevish - United Precision Services and Jakub Dauco - MicroStep, spol. s r.o.