Robotic System for Plasma Cutting Structural Steel Beams & Heavy Plates - Inovatech SteelPRO 900

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FANUC America Authorized System Integrator Inovatech Engineering is helping to revolutionize the steel fabrication industry by providing fabricators with automated solutions that include industrial robots from FANUC to plasma cut structural steel beams and heavy plates. The system seen here is Inovatech’s SteelPRO or SP900 - A complete robotic beam line and plate cutting system. Inovatech’s SP900 comes standard with four-side cutting, 65 feet of infeed and outfeed conveyor, two 6’ x 10’ robotic plate tables, installation and training. The SP900 also comes standard with all the software required to run the system, including ProNest® nesting software from Hypertherm.

The SP900 performs the work of seven single-purpose fabrication machines, and eliminates the need to transport profiles to other work cells. Four-side cutting, coping, plasma drilling, marking, beam splitting and sawing with continuous operation and high production volume are all possible with the SP900. Inovatech’s SteelPRO software automatically creates the cut program while the nine-axis robotic gantry performs the four-side beam processing.

The SP900 is a complete robotic beam line machine with built-in touch sensing and collision protection. A single FANUC robot can process all four sides of a beam at once, making this robotic plasma cutting system fast and cost efficient. The SP900 combines a high performance six-axis FANUC robot with a robotic gantry and precision-made Güdel® linear track system to create a total of nine axes. In addition to providing versatility, using this type of precise, reliable equipment results in aerospace quality repeatability, as the SP900 can plasma cut structural steel and ‘drill’ bolt holes to 0.02mm.

Finally the SP900 robotic plate table system cuts and processes flat plate, base plates and stiffener plates with six-axis beveling capability. The standard SP900 system comes equipped with two 6’ by 10’ plate tables that allow for continuous production – while one table is in production the other table can be loaded and unloaded. These plate tables can be upgraded to two 10’ by 24’ robotic plate tables. Hypertherm’s plasma cutting units power all cutting in Inovatech’s systems. The SP900 comes standard with high definition plasma and industry leading True Hole® technology from Hyperthem that is able to cut, saw, plasma drill, slot, mark and cope structural profiles up to 3.2″ (80mm) thick. Hypertherm plasma units on Inovatech SteelPRO machines produce outstanding quality bolt holes in just seconds.

Inovatech’s team of dedicated engineers take the time to understand their customer’s needs and requirements to develop productive and profitable solutions. Put the Inovatech team and their world-class integrated robotic fabrication solutions to work for you. To learn more please visit http://www.inovatechengineering.com.