A laser tube cutting machine cuts profiles, holes, slots and copes into tube in one setup, where a bandsaw, plasma torch or circular saw cuts length only and hands the part on to a drill, a mill or a fitter. The change is not cut speed. It is the number…

On a laser cutting machine for tube, the beam is busy for a minority of the cycle. Loading the section, closing the chucks, indexing the remnant and clearing the finished part take the rest. Output per shift is set by how those four handling steps are automated, not by the…