{"id":44,"date":"2009-07-25T07:43:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T14:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2016-10-20T19:34:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T02:34:47","slug":"laser-machines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/?page_id=44","title":{"rendered":"Laser Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the Laser Machines that Amada marketed here in the US:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LC 644, <a href=\"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/?page_id=65\">LC667 <\/a>with 6M and 11M controls and Spectra 971 and 820 lasers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>LCF machines with 11M (?) controls and SP 820, other lasers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/?page_id=67\">Optimo <\/a>5-axis gantry system with Roboprima CRG 306 control and Coherent EFA-51 or Arrow laser.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>LC644, <a href=\"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/?page_id=65\">667<\/a> w\/11M, 0M controls and PRC lasers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>LCE machines with 0L controls and PRC lasers(?) or Fanuc lasers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>LCV machines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Pulsar and Altair machines with the series 16L controls and Fanuc lasers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Also the above with 160iL controls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>LCM with 16 series control and Fanuc laser<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>FO series (aka Gemini)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Japan&#8217;s 5-axis machine (aka Theta)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Amada companies<\/h2>\n<p>These are the Amada companies that I worked for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. Amada, a company selling Amada&#8217;s fabricating equipment.<\/li>\n<li>Amada Laser Systems, which was a wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S. Amada, created by taking the laser people from U.S. Amada and a laser research group from Amada Service. It only lasted a few years. Research was disbanded, Optimo went to Service, and the rest went back to U.S. Amada.<\/li>\n<li>Amada Service, a sister company of U.S. Amada that provided parts and service for Amada&#8217;s machines.<\/li>\n<li>U.S. Amada was later renamed as Amada America.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>U.S. Sonoike marketed CNC chipmaking equipment, and shared Amada&#8217;s showroom at various times. I never worked for them.<\/p>\n<p>Amada Cutting Technologies marketed Amada&#8217;s bandsaws and blades. I never worked for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the Laser Machines that Amada marketed here in the US: LC 644, LC667 with 6M and 11M controls and Spectra 971 and 820 lasers LCF machines with 11M (?) controls and SP 820, other lasers. Optimo 5-axis gantry &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/?page_id=44\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laserpubs.com\/techcomm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}