TPT July 2012

Technology News

Tube and pipe bending equipment

equipment, PHI has taken special care to design safety and reliability into each tube and pipe bender. Every PHI bending machine is warranted for parts and labour, for one year from date of delivery. Expert service specialists are available for travel to all parts of the world for consultation and service. PHI has been a leading manufacturer of automatic steel beam welders, benders, end finishers and presses for over 50 years, first as Leonard Precision Products, then Conrac Corporation machine tool division, and now as PHI. As manufacturer of production equipment, PHI has taken special care to design safety and reliability into each machine.

PHI is also known for quality products such as tube end finishing machines for flaring, squaring and deburring and bead forming the ends of tubes. Pipe flanging machines and automated multi- head welding systems are among the family of specialised products offered by PHI. PHI has introduced many innovative refinements to the industry such as drop- away clamps to allow the bending of more complicated shapes, and pressure die assists that provide the operator with more precise control over wall thickness issues. As manufacturers of production

PHI tube and pipe benders are designed to meet a wide variety of customer requirements, from small production or prototype job shop to the high-end user. PHI offers the right machine for the right application providing a full complement of machines, from manually operated machines, where precision bending and portability are required, to more sophisticated higher production machines that require hydraulic bending and programmability for precision forming. This provides accurate repeatability from part to part.

PHI – USA Email: smoss@phi-tulip.com Website: www.phi-tulip.com

Industrial fibrelasers for metal marking

complaint management can be obtained from SIC Wostor. SIC Wostor offers two different laser systems. The system c173 L-G is designed to be a fully contained workstation with a wide array of optional extensions such as fume control and automated item positioning; yet it remains highly customisable to fit the customer’s purpose. All laser security regulations are fulfilled. The integratable system i103 L-G is well-suited for inclusion into established or planned construction environments. The marking head is designed to take up little space, and the controller unit, which also contains the laser source, can be integrated into a standard rack. Both parts of the system are conjoined by a flexible optical cable. For the purpose of integrating the system trained specialists can be provided by SIC Wostor. Both laser marking systems are compact, require only cooling by air and need little maintenance, so that keeping numerous expensive replacement parts in stock is not a necessity. SIC Wostor Markiersysteme GmbH – Germany

where the visual impression counts and suggests greater value. Additional advantages include silent operation and low marking cycles, resulting in a high throughput. Optical traceability by automated systems is fully supported with optimal quality. Like the well-established dot- peening systems, which SIC Wostor also supplies, the laser marking system supports DataMatrix marking, but may also mark conventional bar codes which depend on strong, ideally black-white, contrast. Company logos, images and

SIC Wostor, German subsidiary of the SIC Marking Group, is now offering modern laser marking technology in the area of industrial metal marking with their Ytterbium-doped fibrelasers. In comparison to marking lasers based on YAG and CO 2 , which have been on the market for quite some time, Ytterbium-doped fiberlasers are more powerful and enjoy a considerably longer lifetime of about 100,000 working hours. Even hard metal can now be marked quickly and deeply. Using a marking laser is an option especially

fonts may be marked with a greater range of options for design purposes, and the strain put on the marked piece is considerably less. Typefaces can easily be read even at low sizes. SIC Wostor also offers optical systems for the reading, evaluating and tracking of items marked with barcodes or DataMatrix, so that complete solutions for stock or

Laser marking technology

Email: info@wostor.de Website: www.wostor.de

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