A lot of old school manufacturing industries which manufacture heavy metal materials
are not aware of the new tools available to work with metals and the new processes that all high technology companies are using these days to speed up throughput, cut costs and produce a much higher grade of product. One such process that is making life easier for both company owners and workers as well as the people designing metal components is laser cutting.
You may have heard of laser cutting before and think of it as still being an experimental technology that costs a lot to use and does not make economic sense for real every day industrial use, but this is not true. Laser cutting services are widely used in all sorts of industries where metals and other materials need to be cut and shaped with a high degree of accuracy, speed and a great finish. Laser cutting services have also integrated beautifully into the work flow of metal working companies that use computer aided design or CAD and are now a chief part of the computer aided manufacturing processes that form CAD/CAM. The same files that are used to plot the metal in a three dimensional space inside a computer can also be input into the computerised cutting machines as instructions for cutting actual shapes into metals and other materials in real life. The process is mostly automated with the only intervention from human beings at the most being occasional repositioning of the blanks when the machine has finished a stage of cutting. Human beings come nowhere near the lasers which are enclosed. The improved safety also comes with other advantages. Since there is no contact in the cutting process, there are no saws or grinders and no cutting surfaces or diamond coated edges. All these parts are no longer a health hazard and injury risk to workers, there is also no need for frequent maintenance of these. Contact-less cutting with only light being used means any finishing or coating of the blanks is not destroyed and the precision of the cutting is unmatched by any other technology. Since the laser cutting services use your CAD source files, you can be assured that objects in real life with be as pixel perfect as your virtual objects were in your models.