Large-format sheet processing

SheetPro™

SheetPro is a large-format laser workstation for sheets, boards, and plates. The bed stays still and a LaserSharp® LPM travels above it on an XY gantry. Standard beds are 800 × 1,000 mm, 4 × 8 ft, and 5 × 12 ft.

Square-bed precision work at 670 × 670 mm and below runs on ExactPro™. Beds above 5 × 12 ft, odd aspect ratios, more than one LPM, or full automation are quoted as custom equipment.

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SheetPro laser workstation with a 5 × 12 ft static bed and overhead XY gantry

Specifications

Architecture	Static bed; LaserSharp® LPM on an overhead XY gantryThe workpiece does not traverse.
Beds	800 × 1,000 mm · 4 × 8 ft (1,219 × 2,438 mm) · 5 × 12 ft (1,524 × 3,658 mm)Larger or odd aspect ratios are quoted as custom.
LaserSharp® LPMs	1More than one is quoted as custom.
Laser sources	NIR (1030–1064 nm), green, UV, and CO₂ LaserSharp® LPMs; nanosecond to femtosecond pulses on the solid-state sources
Registration	Automated registration with distortion compensation, plus vision registrationBoth standard.
Calibration	Self-calibrating scan field and gantry
Fixturing	Vacuum and clamp, both standard
Material handling	ManualFull automatic load and unload is quoted as custom.
Design life	15+ years

Configure-to-order

Bed — 800 × 1,000 mm, 4 × 8 ft, or 5 × 12 ft
Cleanroom-compatible configuration
Femtosecond LPM — configure-to-order. Field size and throughput for femtosecond work are established on your material in the trial.
Laser source selected on your material
µVerify™ — in-line inspection that measures feature size and position and feeds closed-loop control of the laser parameters, plus Pulse beam confirmation. Which features are measured depends on the application.

On a large sheet the part is the thing that is hard to move. SheetPro leaves it on a static bed and moves the module instead, so a 5 × 12 ft plate is processed where it was loaded. Registration reads the sheet as it actually sits and compensates the toolpath for it.

In production

LaserSharp LPM on the SheetPro gantry, positioned over a walnut-veneer board on the static bed — The LaserSharp® LPM rides the gantry over a walnut-veneer board. The board does not move.

A LasX engineer in laser safety glasses checks the optics at the LaserSharp LPM on a SheetPro gantry — A LasX engineer checks the optics at the LaserSharp® LPM.

See it run

SheetPro overview — Shown with automated sheet loading and unloading — a custom configuration. Standard SheetPro loading is manual.

Drilling wood-veneer acoustic panels — A dense hole pattern drilled through wood-veneer boards for acoustic panels. The board stays put on the static bed while the LaserSharp® LPM moves overhead.

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Questions buyers ask

Does the bed move on SheetPro?

No. The bed is static and the LaserSharp® LPM travels overhead on the XY gantry. That is what lets the format scale to 5 × 12 ft without a moving-table footprint twice the size of the sheet.