Plate Machinery


PLATE MACHINERY

 

What is Plate Machinery?

CNC profile cutting machinery quickly, accurately and cost effectively cuts profiles (parts) out of steel, aluminum or stainless plate.

Automated Cutting Machinery sells and supports the Messer Cutting Systems  lines of CNC plasma cutting machines, oxy-fuel, and drilling machines. Each machine is custom configured for the application and can support profile cutting of carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum, copper and brass over a wide range of plate sizes and thickness. Our plate processing machinery is configured to support a wide range of cutting processes such as CO2 laser, Fiber optic laser, high definition plasma, high speed oxy-fuel, drilling and marking.

Whether your application requires a small 5’x10′ low cost cnc plasma cutting machine such as the Metal Master 2.0 or demands a large high production gantry machine that supports heavy drilling, plasma beveling and oxy-fuel cutting such as the TMC4500DB, our diverse product line enables us to custom configure a solution that will meet your part quality requirements and production needs.

WHAT MAXIMUM THICKNESS CAN EACH PROCESS CUT?

Maximum cutting thickness for the various cutting processes are as follows:

  • HIGH DEFINITION PLASMA
    • Up to 800 Amps of cutting power
    • Carbon steel up to 3″
    • Stainless steel up to 6″
    • Aluminum up to 6″
  • OXY FUEL
    • carbon steel up to 12″
  • CO2 LASER
    • Up to 7kw
    • Carbon steel up to 1″
    • Stainless up to 3/4″
    • Aluminum up to 3/4″
  • FIBER OPTIC LASER
    • Up to 6kw
    • Carbon steel up to 1″
    • Stainless Steel up to 3/4″
    • Aluminum up to 5/8″

WHAT IS HIGH PRODUCTION PLATE PROCESSING?

High production plate processing is the term used to describe a situation where a high speed precision CNC cutting machine is run for multiple shifts per day or used to produce more than one part at a time.

To meet the unique demands of high production our CNC cutting machines can be configured with multiple high definition plasma, oxy-fuel or fiber optic laser cutting heads enabling the end user to cut multiple parts simultaneously.

Examples of high production cnc cutting machine platforms include:

CNC plasma cutting machines equipped with multiple high definition plasma heads not only increase output, they also lower the cost to produce each part. The same holds true for cutting machines equipped with multiple oxy-fuel torches or multiple fiber optics laser heads.

In addition to offering multi head cutting solutions we also offer specific machine platforms designed for high production applications. These high production machines are designed with industry leading speeds, accelerations and motion characteristics and include advanced technologies to maximum up time such as self cleaning downdraft tables, shuttle tables and/or automated material handling systems.

WHAT IS MULTI PROCESS PLATE PROCESSING?

Any application that requires more than one tool be used to produce the required parts will benefit form a multi process system. Quite simply a multi process cutting system combines more than one cutting or marking process on a given machine frame. Having more than one cutting process on a machine gives the end user flexibility to use either cutting or marking process individually or a combination of each process all in one part. This combination style machinery eliminates the cost and time associated with material handling parts from one dedicated machine to another and also improves part accuracy as all processing occurs on one system.

Messer Cutting Systems offers multi process systems which include drilling, tapping, high definition plasma cutting, plasma beveling, oxy-fuel cutting, marking and even laser cutting making it an all in one advanced plate processing machine.

Please contact our TECHNICAL SALES TEAM to learn more and discuss the best fit solution for your application.