What is CE Marking? Most of us are familiar with the CE logo, for many years products sold in the UK have displayed the CE logo to signify that the goods sold are of a certain quality and meet recognised industry safety standards. I Understand That, But How Does This Effect Laser Cutting? Many laser
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Galvanometer scanner and optical errors. The galvanometer scanner, while incredibly fast and agile, brings its own set of errors. F-theta lenses, which are used to translate the scanner’s angular motion into a flat focal plane, are not perfect and introduce spatial nonlinearities known as pincushion or barrel distortion (see Fig. 3). Furthermore, the laser beam
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GF Laser celebrates its tenth year of trading this year, but who are they and how did they get there? June 2006 saw GF Laser install it’s first laser cutting machine, this was a five axis Trumpf laser machine that is still in use today. The laser was bought to take advantage of the growing
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In this episode: A new microscope makes brighter and sharper images, the latest photonics business headlines, and an on-chip electronic-photonic-quantum system. Source link
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Press Release (28 June 2016) Dudley-based GF Laser is celebrating 10 years as a leading supplier of subcontract flatbed 2D and five-axis 3D laser cutting services. The company, which has grown into a £2 million turnover, 20-employee business, started trading in 2006 with a newly acquired TRUMPF TLC CUT 5 five-axis laser, a machine that
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New solutions for process monitoring As the demand for precision and efficiency in laser processing grows, manufacturers struggle to maintain quality assurance with outdated methods. Manual inspections and conventional monitoring systems often lead to high error rates, increased scrap, production downtimes, and inefficient workflows. Common production challenges include unstable processes, high scrap rates, undetected process
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One piece of news which has been effectively buried with last weeks shock news that the next US President will be one with zero political experience is details of The Royal Bank of Scotland’s compensation package to “squeezed firms” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37903541. It’s interesting that many commentators are making direct links to Brexit and Trump and the
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Prototype quantum networks, pluggable fiber-optic quantum comms modules ahead Photon pairs produced by the group’s devices are ready to build prototype quantum networks for distributing quantum information. “We use a 1550-nm wavelength compatible with existing long-haul fiber infrastructure, and Professor Kumar’s group at Northwestern recently showed that quantum and classical signals can coexist on the
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As part of our ongoing expansion plans we have taken on additional space to support our growth plans over the next five years. Additional space has been secured a few hundred yards away from our Narrowboat Way headquarters in Dudley which makes it an ideal location to support our ever growing laser cutting capabilities. The
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At GF Laser we are always looking to improve productivity using technology to increase efficiency. We currently use a number of systems in the following areas: Sales Order Processing All enquiries are logged and quotations constructed within our Clarity system. When an order is placed the quotation status is then changed and a Works Order
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