Objective
Production of hardened metal machined products is a staged process involving distinct and separate equipment This inevitably requires a longer throughput time than products which can be completed at a single setting on a machine, increasing customer response time and product costs.
Conducting the hardening process at the same time as metal cutting is the objective of this project. The strategy is to research how to incorporate laser energy since this has been shown to be the most promising approach. The opportunities have not been realised in production equipment because the associated technical problems have not been overcome and the performance of products produced in this way have not been widely evaluated Further possibilities would be opened up by the research, notably the generation of new processes derived from the combination of mechanical and optical energy. The benefits of this would initially be concerned with the repair of worn components and tools.
Rapid take-up of the results of the project is envisaged through a focus on retrofit capability.
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HD4 7EZ Huddersfield
United Kingdom