Material processing uses many technologies for cutting, welding and surface treatment. The current market solutions for these applications include water jet, plasma and CNC. In the past year’s laser technology usage in the material processing market is increasing. Laser machines is an established market and within this technology more innovation is happing, and the market is moving from CO2 lasers to Fiber lasers.
The automobile and aerospace industries are developing new technologies using complex shapes and materials. The material processing market is working on solutions for enabling the production of such products. The laser market is developing solutions to control the melt pool. By controlling different parameters as beam shape, focal point and duration of the melt pool.
Most of the solutions offered in the market are based on mechanical parts which are limited in speed and require high maintenance. Civan’s CBCLASER is controlled electro optically and has a dynamic beam in MHz regime that includes all the different existing solutions in the market.
With the CBCLASER new possibilities are available in the material processing which will influence significant industries to use this technology and develop new and innovative products using dis-similar materials, exotic materials and accurate cutting and welding.
CBCLASER project is aimed to develop a ready to market laser based on Coherent Beam Combining (CBC) technology. During the project Civan will leverage its existing lasers and knowledge to a commercialize product that can be mass produced.
During the CBCLASER project Civan will Integrate two laser systems that will be sent to two leading companies in the material processing industry to conduct a pilot. The feedback from the pilot will be used to improve the ready to market laser. In order to be ready for the sales predictions, large investment to up-scale the manufacturing line is done. This includes re-design f the manufacturing line, implementing automation tools in the manufacturing line and building new teams to support the production.
The last aspect for the success of the project is the commercialization of the product. Marketing and sales efforts are done to promise the success of the business plan and to penetrate the market.
