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A-Laser enters the aerospace world with laser cutting services that continue to exceed performance expectations. The modern aerospace industry has strict tolerance requirements and A-Laser is prepared to meet those needs.
For example, modern aerospace design dictates anywhere from dozens to millions of precise holes and channels. These must vary in thickness, diameters, and geometries. A-Laser is prepared to meet these requirements and we do so with faster, more versatile, more consistent and cost-effective tools.
What Does Aerospace Manufacturing Do?
Laser cutting for aerospace is a driving force behind the innovation and efficiency in modern aerospace manufacturing. Aerospace fabrication with the use of laser technology is helping to create lighter, stronger, and more fuel-efficient aircraft and supporting systems that can take us further and faster than ever before. Not only are lasers truly revolutionary in the world of aerospace but also for defense, medical, energy and other industry applications. Imagine this: instead of clunky machines and noisy processes, you have a concentrated beam of light that can cut, weld, and manipulate materials with incredible precision. That’s the power of lasers at play. Here is a more in depth look at aerospace manufacturing and what lasers do in support:
Cutting of Materials: First and foremost, lasers provide precise cutting of materials for fasteners, wings, structural supports, brackets, hinges, panels and other precision required aircraft components. Materials such as titanium, tungsten aluminum and stainless steel are commonly used for aerospace parts.
Surface Treatment: Aerospace fabrication may include laser surface treatment to remove unwanted paint or contaminants from components before additional finishes are applied such as powder coating, polishing, and anodizing.
Laser Marking: Laser marking for aerospace and other industries such as defense, medical and oil and gas, need parts to be engraved with part numbers and manufacturing lot numbers. This allows transparency for review of any functional issues or replacement parts during routine life cycle runs.
Welding: Welding of components for assembly is often done with precision by laser technology. These specific lasers are made to create strong and precise welds for aerospace structures and mechanical systems.
With capabilities such as these, laser cutting for aerospace, defense, medical and other industries do bring forth benefits to utilizing this technology such as:
High Quality Precision: Lasers can produce intricate parts used for applications like turbine blades, engine gaskets, locking mechanisms, panels, structural supports and many more. These ae done with clean cuts and welds with no distortion. The repeatability of lasers provides production support and the ability for precision R&D.
Reduced Heat Impact: Aerospace laser cutting is a highly monitored industry with little to no leeway of a parts deviation of intended design and function. Laser technology can adjust to materials that are prone to heat affect by adjusting the power and the number of cycles or passes during manufacturing.
Lightweight Material Processing: Materials like aluminum, titanium, stainless and others used in aerospace fabrication, are made in many gauges. Thicknesses from 0.001” (0.0254mm) to 0.40” (1.0mm), because of their delicate nature can be challenging for other manufacturing methods. They can exert great force on the raw material and distort delicate geometries and the overall material shape. Laser technology does not add any stress to the material and cuts only with the beam of intensified light.
Material Versatility: Industries use a wide variety of materials, and the aerospace industry is no exception. Though many metallics are used in aircraft, there is also many non-metallic materials like epoxies, adhesives gasketing materials like grafoil, nitrile rubbers, and many more that are used. Different laser technologies have the capability to change from one material to another without the need for new physical tools or dies. Versatility not only supports an array of parts, but also benefits new design paths and prototypes when material testing and confirmation are being made.
Aerospace laser cutting is driving technology forward by allowing new doors to be opened in aircraft components and systems. Lasers are helping to advance many industries, including aerospace. The methods for aerospace sheet metal cutting, laser marking, laser surface treatments and other precision components manufactured by this technology continue to be a key partner in manufacturing not only for aerospace but for many other industrial and consumer applications.
Why Laser Technology?
UV lasers have become the laser of choice in the technology world in a wide range of industries. These lasers entered the market with ever-increasing average and peak powers. UV lasers continue to offer users improvement in electrical efficiency, beam brightness, and cutting precision.
With UV lasers, it’s never been easier to build aerospace parts from initial prototype to final production.
Why Use Laser Processing in Aerospace:
When compared to traditional manufacturing processes, laser processing offers an amazing series of advantages:
- Laser processing is 100% software controlled. This allows us to adjust for variations in material thickness and contours during the initial setup and design phase for aerospace parts. Laser paths can be adjusted to allow extreme precision even under the most complex material variations.
- With UV lasers, virtually no mechanical or thermal stresses occur on the target aerospace part materials.
- UV lasers offer extreme precision. The UV beam is only a few µm. This allows tiny cutting channels and more components and complexity on each material piece.
Laser Technology & The Future
Laser cutting and processing is not new to the aerospace industry. As the industry has grown and demanded higher precision and smaller sizes, laser cutting has allowed continued innovation while reducing aerospace component size and weight.
Whether you’re building mechanical flight components or parts for aerospace electronics, A-Laser has the tools to help you design and fabricate the perfect component from prototype through final production.
If you’d like to get a quote for your precision laser cutting needs, please click below. We’d love to work with you to help design and fabricate the parts you need to propel the future of the aerospace industry.
At A-Laser, we’re passionate about helping companies like yours build the future of the aerospace industry. Let’s work together to improve aerospace part design.
