Trumpf is a great example of how a business evolves to survive the waves of a rapidly changing technological world. From sheet metal shears to laser cutting. Incredible technology!
@@thinker4life482 hi, I'm building my own smaller router but definitely not as robust as that phantom machine. The VFD conversion for the spindle will also incur power loss, so if I did the calculations correctly that 16.1hp spindle is only useful up to about 6hp, and low rpm torque for metal might be lacking for your requirements unless you go slow. Mine is a 5hp Fanuc and running 30 amp 220 with a VFD it has to derate to about 3.7 hp. I'm only doing thinner sheet metal so a vacuum system will take up some available amperage as well. I've looked for local used machines (I'm just west of Ann Arbor) but haven't come across ATC or anything cheaper than 8k. Closest I've seen is an older Taurus designed for heavier applications.
Word of advice. If you get a Trumpf laser, use their software. The company I work at decided to use their own software and it's just a complete nightmare.
I've worked with a Trumpf TruDisk 2000 laser welding equipment for about a year and I just love how much work they've invested into making the machine as dumb-proof as possible. The maintenance instructions are presented step by step on the HMI and you have to check each step in order to get to the next one and let equipment know what are you doing. I've had the chance to see the guts of the laser source and that thing is looking like a science fiction setup. Also, the PFO (programmable focusing optics) is incredible for welding. It was a pleasure to work with Trumpf and I hope I will have the chance to work again in the future. Thanks for this video!
I've been to the Farmington, Connecticut campus for training and we have a 6kw 5040 laser cutter here at work. Watching light cut 1" material is still amazes me.
Nice one! It’s so important to keep emphasizing that everything you touch is manufactured. In that way we might get some more credits for all the engineers and machinists that make this happen every day!
@@ExplodingPinappleHD maybe Dmg don’t need that kind of marketing. I was considering between doosan and dmg, ended up with full option dmg, and i i do not regret that, also few week ago i put order for new toy from dmg..
The last sentence is important: "We have to think about everything that we touch has been manufactured". Respect for the workers, the machines, the engineers. All the people behind any product.
Your last comment about everything we touch has been manufactured is true, as I tell my family, but the sad truth is we as a society have become detached from the process for so long young people today believe that finished products just drop out of the sky and we are losing the value we once had, on devices we buy. We have become a throw away society and children need to know what goes into making everything they use and own to see the miracle they have in their possession. You have to make something to value it, kids need to know how to make stuff and realise how much fun it is to do so. As young person growing up in the seventies, I read the Mechanics magazine, which was for sale in every newsagents, that magazine inspired to make everything, now we just buy stuff and throw it away
Thanks Titan for the tours and giving back so much with the training videos it's genuinely inspirational. I own a small 1kw fibre laser and have had a lot of parts made on Trumpf machines. What an amazing facility!!
Another excellent video Titan. I wish I was younger and could jump into this field. I guess I'll have to settle with my 2x2 CNC plasma table and plain ole PLA type printers.. Such tremendous opportunity for folks these days.
I've seen quite many Trumpf Lasers in Taiwan, the quotes of those companies are usually ten times the price (of what our current manufacturer charges) and they're somewhat inflexible. I guess our parts have a certain complexity which those machines cannot handle well, and the owners of those companies just don't have to get into that because they have enough "regular"/easier business. Trumpf is not developing their own lasers? At least within one machine I think I have seen a laser from a well known german company. I'm certainly sure their machines are pretty good, I envy those who can effort that.
Titan, have you ever worked for a shop that the management made you feel worthless? I recently changed jobs to make better income to take better care of my family. I have been in the machining trade fir 26 years and I'm really thinking I made a mistake fir wanting to learn all the bew stuff involved with additive manufacturing. The problem is, the management is really condescending making me out to he an idiot. I am open minded and willing to learn but I don't appreciate being made out to be stupid. Is it like this everywhere else for people wanting to learn?
