Roll- or sheet-to-part laser finishing
SmartFinish™
SmartFinish is a configure-to-order laser finishing machine that turns roll or sheet material into finished parts — flexible electronics, security products, medical components, aerospace components, folding cartons, and commercial print. Its patented vacuum process conveyor holds the material flat and in register through cutting, kiss-cutting, scoring, and separation, so high-precision parts are manufactured continuously rather than one sheet at a time. Robotics and automation sort, stack, and pack the finished parts.
Pressure-sensitive label stock on a 100 or 350 mm web runs on MicroLam™. For XY micromachining of individual parts or sheets, see ExactPro™ / SheetPro™.
Specifications
| Process width | 500 mm or 600 mm560 mm or 660 mm belt. Wider conveyors are quoted as custom equipment. |
|---|---|
| Infeed | Sheet or roll — one per machineSheet and roll infeed on one machine is quoted as custom equipment. |
| LaserSharp® LPMs | 1 or 2Laser source and power specified per application. |
| Process conveyor | Patented vacuum process conveyor — material held flat and in register through the process |
| Registration | Print and feature registration, both standard |
| Part handling | Three packages — Essential, Sort, Finish-to-shipEssential: part separation and manual takeoff. Sort: Essential plus robotic sorting. Finish-to-ship: Sort plus robotic stacking and packing. |
| Design life | 15+ years |
Configure-to-order
- Process width — 500 mm or 600 mm
- Sheet infeed or roll infeed
- LaserSharp® LPMs — 1 or 2, laser source and power selected on your material
- Part handling package: Essential (part separation and manual takeoff)
- Part handling package: Sort (Essential plus robotic sorting)
- Part handling package: Finish-to-ship (Sort plus robotic stacking and packing)
- 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.
SmartFinish is a parts machine, not a print finisher that happens to cut. The patented vacuum process conveyor carries roll or sheet material through the laser cell held flat and in register, so every part in a continuous run is cut to the same geometry — flexible circuits, security documents, medical components, aerospace parts, cartons, and commercial print alike. Finishing geometry is prepared from the same digital artwork or CAD that defined the part, so a changeover is a file load, and robotic sorting, stacking, and packing take the finished parts off the conveyor.
In production
See it run
Questions buyers ask
How does laser finishing change short-run economics?
The die disappears. On short runs, tooling cost and lead time dominate the job — eliminating them removes both the per-job tooling charge and the days spent waiting for a die. Changeover becomes a file load rather than a setup.