Lasers are currently the technological flavour of the month. The dazzling versatility of light at work tends to blind the onlooker both in its deficiencies and the availability of credible alternatives. This paper compares laser cutting and plasma cutting technologies. It concludes that careful appraisal of manufacturing requirements would probably reveal that equally satisfactory productivity was possible, and higher acceptable dimensional accuracy and edge finish, by opting for high definition plasma profiling. In doing so a lot of money would be saved.


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    Title :

    High definition plasma - an alternative to laser technology


    Contributors:

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    Publication date :

    1998-06-01


    Size :

    3 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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