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 Applications: Plasma Cutting

Plasma Cutting

 

Burny / AMC first began supplying numerical controls and drives to the plasma cutting market the early 70’s. Today we are the market leader in numerical controls for automated oxy fuel and plasma arc cutting. Burny / AMC’s numerical controls can be found operating machines throughout the world and we back up our systems with global sales and service. Our experience includes small fabrication shops to the world’s largest metal fabricators and shipyards


 

retrofitting a plasma cutter

Burny / AMC controls and drives can be found on a wide range of cutting machines that range from small cantilever machines to very large multi torch, multi process gantry cutting machines and our numerical control systems and drives are used by industry leading manufacturers of automated cutting machines.

 

In addition to purchasing Burny / AMC numerical control system for your new cutting system, Burny / AMC can supply an upgrade retrofit system to modernize any existing cutting machine in the marketplace.

If you are considering the purchase of a new machine, please review the list of industry leading cutting machine OEM Partners that feature Burny / AMC PRODUCTS.

 

Our retrofits include upgrading the following machine or control configurations.

 

  • Airco
  • Allen Bradley
  • AKS
  • C&G
  • ESAB
  • Heath
  • Koike
  • L-Tec
  • Linde
  • MG
  • NCG
  • SAF
  • SI Tech

 

 

Burny / AMC have retrofitted AMC 4 motion controllers to many plasma cutter machines including machines from Lockformer, Farley, M G Industries, Cybermation, L Tech and Linde.

 

These plasma cutter machines were upgraded for a number of reasons including:

  • the old controller had stopped working or had become unreliable

  • maintenance was either too expensive or not available

  • components for the old controllers were becoming increasingly difficult to locate

  • component parts produced using the old controllers were inaccurate

 

Plasma cutter upgrades used AMC 4's with integral DC brushed motor drives. One new modestly sized controller cabinet generally replaced 2 or more separate enclosures. Usually the existing motors were used.

 

upgrades were carried out on site, generally in two days or less, by an NEE engineer who initially established how the existing system operated then fitted the new controller. Usually new wiring harnesses were provided by NEE as old harnesses can be unreliable. The controller was integrated with the existing plasma generator. The AMC controller was then configured to match the machine and to give the best performance. Test parts were cut and operator training provided

 

  • more accurate parts are produced, they also have better edge quality

  • The plasma cutter machines are now far more productive and non cutting machine movements are made much faster

  • integral library of common shapes

  • a shape nesting/repeat feature permits operators to readily produce straightforward parts directly from the front panel

  • Recovering from cutting problems is far easier and faster with the AMC 4 . Features are provided to:

    • 'Dry Run' or 'Trial Run' part programs at high speed

    • move directly to a numerically entered pierce count

    • 'Search' the part program for the current machine position then continue part program execution from there

    • Operators find the new machine controller far easier to use

    • the AMC has specific keys for common functions and does not use confusing codes to access features

    • a graphical display permits part shapes to be graphically viewed and verified before cutting is commenced

    • the AMC 4 uses a simple menu system, optimised to reduce operator key strokes to a minimum saving time and reducing errors

    • the AMC 4 uses unique 'pressure sensitive' machine jog keys, the harder the key is pressed the faster the machine moves, this makes manual machine movements simple and quick