Custom Equipment
Partner with LasX for innovative development.
Our Custom Equipment Development Process
Through a unique collaborative approach to custom equipment development, our Global Solutions team confidentially researches, develops, and engineers an equipment solution tailored to your exact production workflow. We start by evaluating potential solutions, then take you through testing and manufacturing, using our proven LaserSharp Processing Module (LPM) as the backbone. Once built, the partnership continues through our ClearCut® program, which protects your LasX equipment investment.
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Application Development
By partnering with us from the start, we ensure your laser processing application is fully qualified to meet your manufacturing requirements.
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Equipment Solution Realization
Our team of laser experts develop and refine a LasX equipment solution that meets your automation and application specifications.
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LasX Equipment Manufacturing
Your LasX equipment solution, backed by our patented LaserSharp technology, is manufactured to reliably deliver results and ROI over 10+ years.
Customer Success Stories
Laser Cutting Digitally Printed Textiles
Laser Cutting Roll-Fed Metal Foils
Precision Cutting and Laminating Biochips
High-Speed Laser Scoring on Soap Packaging
Material Formats
Sheet Fed
Narrow Web
Wide Web
Discrete Parts
Choose LasX with confidence.
Ethan Dinauer, Development & Engineering Manager
Confidential development
Our laser and material processing experts will work closely with your team to evaluate, develop, test, and deploy a solution that we guarantee will meet all your application requirements.
Support for optimal performance
With our proactive approach to equipment service and support via ClearCut®, we ensure you maintain process quality while maximizing equipment productivity throughout your relationship with LasX.
Future-proof investment
With our digital workflows, you have control over all laser processing aspects via a single intuitive interface, allowing you to easily adapt, scale, and upgrade equipment based on your evolving needs.
Predictable operational costs
By performing non-contact laser material processing, we eliminate costs associated with tool wear and maintenance, making production costs, downtime, and equipment lifetime easier to plan.
Additional LasX Resources
End-to-End Solutions
OEM Integration
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Our advanced LaserSharp Processing Modules (LPMs) are designed to seamlessly integrate into your current manufacturing workflow. With options for different laser wavelengths and output powers, each module combines a laser source, power supply, focusing optics, beam scanner, and patented process controller that includes LightGuide operator software in a single package. LasX makes it easy to integrate our laser technology into your existing equipment through guidance and installation support from our team of laser experts.
Equipment Service & Support
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Whether you want the comfort of knowing a laser expert is there to answer your questions or need on-site equipment and process support, LasX has an option that is right for you. Beyond offering standard preventative maintenance guidance and remote and on-site support to all LasX customers, for manufacturers that need to extend their in-house expertise, LasX also offers our ClearCut® equipment service and process support plan. Our premium ClearCut® service plan maximizes equipment uptime, performance, and lifespan while ensuring you achieve top productivity through services such as machine health checkups and on-site laser process development and operator training.
LasX Core Technology
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Through our decades of laser technology experience at LasX, we can knowledgeably guide customers through the entire end-to-end material converting and production process. But we also understand that every customer has unique requirements, which is why we partner with you to tailor our equipment and contract manufacturing services to deliver exactly what you’re looking for. Plus, our approach to laser-enabled processing uses our advanced LaserSharp Processing Modules and digital workflows powered by our LightGuide operator software, which inherently reduces costs and accelerates time to market.
FAQs
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Something that makes LasX unique is the variety of laser technologies we have available. Our standard LPMs powered by CO2 lasers can be supplied in wavelengths of 9.4µm, 10.2µm, and 10.6µm up to 2.5 kW of laser power. With this amount of power, our LPMs can process materials at speeds up to 5x faster than competitors’ laser technology. We also have LPMs powered by fiber lasers, ultraviolet (UV) lasers, and femtosecond lasers to process metallic and exotic materials in the highest precision possible. Our LPM technology precisely controls the output power of our lasers, which gives us the flexibility to cut many different materials at a precise depth of cut.
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Typical cutting speeds for our LaserSharp equipment is 4,000 mm per second (100” per second). Speeds will vary based on the material type and material thickness being processed. We also can “gang” multiple lasers to increase cutting speeds and/or material widths while operating under a single LaserSharp control interface.
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LasX LaserSharp Processing Modules (LPMs) are the engines that power our high-performance laser material processing equipment. Our powerful LightGuide operator software directly imports several design file formats to guide the laser beam around the material with no special file preparation or handling required. LasX standard LPMs can be configured with CO₂ lasers, fiber lasers, UV lasers, and femtosecond lasers and can continuously process materials from 100 mm (4”) wide to more than 2,000mm (80”) wide.
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LasX LaserSharp equipment is based on our proprietary LPMs controlled by our easy-to-use LightGuide operator interface and digital workflows, offering agility and flexibility not possible with competitive solutions. Our LPMs use high-speed scanners and innovative vision registration to perform high-precision processing with synchronized material handling. Plus, our team of laser experts have more than 20 years’ experience delivering the highest performing laser processing solutions to the manufacturing industry.
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Since we design our LaserSharp equipment with complete vertical integration of process controls, LasX can always upgrade the laser technology to be consistent with current state-of-the-art processing techniques. This means your equipment can easily run for more than 10 years. Our ClearCut® service plan can help you further maximize equipment uptime, performance, and lifespan and ensure you will realize maximum productivity through services such as machine health-checkups and on-site laser process development and operator training.
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Yes! If you have been utilizing our contract manufacturing services but your production needs and team are scaling to the point where you feel it is best to invest in an in-house equipment solution, our laser experts will partner with you to help develop the best equipment solution for you.
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We recommend chatting with our laser experts about your specific application requirements. We can then guide you to our contract manufacturing services to develop your laser material processing application and test run your requirements – an approach that will dramatically accelerate your development and maximize your ROI when investing in a LasX equipment solution.
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Our LaserSharp equipment solutions typically range from $100,000 to more than $1 million USD. If you would like to immediately test our equipment for your specific laser application, we are also happy to quote you on our contract manufacturing or confidential process development services.