Nukon Lasers UK collaborates with Lantek UK for laser cutting excellence.
by Lantek
Advanced Manufacturing
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Premium Turkish laser manufacturer Nukon is one of Lantek’s OEM collaborative partners, combining the 2D and 3D technology of Nukon’s lasers with the expertise Lantek brings to the industry with its Lantek Expert software for programming 2D lasers and its Flex3D software for tube cutting lasers.
Nukon Lasers UK, the company’s UK and Ireland distributor has been working with Lantek’s UK office for two years and has already collaborated in the installation of multiple machines.
Steve Haddrell, Sales Director at Nukon Lasers UK says, “We are part of the Unison Ltd family of companies, which has been manufacturing and selling high-end tube bending machinery to the aerospace, oil and gas and automotive industries for over 50 years. After thoroughly investigating the fibre laser market we partnered with Nukon. With its technology we can offer a technically advanced machine to our customers and, by partnering with Lantek our customers are productive within days of the machine installation. By working with Lantek we have every confidence in the success of every project we undertake.”
According to Steve Haddrell, 2D laser technology is very mature and the quality of the Lantek software is a factor in separating Nukon from its competitors. He adds, “Lantek has all the essentials such as heat dissipation, job estimates, film burning for plastic coated sheet, common line cutting and powerful nesting, ensuring optimum yield from the material processed.”
The Nukon lasers offer advanced technology using US made, high quality nLIGHT resonators which offer CutLine adaptive beam control ‘on the fly’ during cutting.
Steve Haddrell says, “Lantek Expert and Flex3D products are head and shoulders above others in the market. Lantek software is fully featured and the quality of the support staff and their depth of knowledge gives us complete confidence.”
Adam Ball, Lantek UK Software Solutions Manager says, “Nukon is a valuable partner and fits with our multivendor stance. We work with hundreds of OEMs making sure that the special features of each machine work perfectly, backed by 35 years of research and development. As well as providing software for cutting machines, we can integrate with existing business systems within a company and extend administrative capabilities through Lantek MES, quoting and CRM systems. These specialist sheet metal systems work transparently together to help companies revolutionise work processes, productivity and profitability.”
Material waste and a lack of agility in nesting or the nesting of parts are two of the most common problems faced by metal processing companies which slow down the company’s response time for its clients and make the process more expensive. This is due to them not using the appropriate technology in order to fully exploit each piece of sheet metal during the cutting process and/or the fact that this process is completed manually or using slower solutions. Equally, the work of the production engineer mustn’t be knocked as they are experts in the optimization of nesting and machining; the maximization of the margin for each production order received depends on their intervention.
Lantek recently presented a set of applications that allow the path to digital transformation to unfold quickly and intuitively for companies in the sector.
These applications now make up the suite of cloud-based products called Lantek 360. Users of Lantek 360 will have applications with enormous capabilities, and will be able to access and process large amounts of data in real time as well as historical data.