| The larger structural steel industry leaders all seem to | | | | innovative machine called "PythonX" uses |
| have beam lines and the smaller fabricators are | | | | high-definition plasma cutting with industrial robot |
| saving up to buy one. If you need to drill holes of | | | | technology to create a new category of structural |
| varying diameters a beam drill line's drill bit can be | | | | steel fabrication machine. In virtually every measure, |
| interchanged, automatically in many cases, to make all | | | | it bests the beam line for structural steel fabrication |
| the various sizes. The beam drill line can even figure | | | | What do those using this remarkable technology |
| out exactly where the different holes are supposed | | | | have to say about it? Here are some direct quotes: |
| to be. How? The beam drill line can download | | | | "You cannot compare this machine to beam lines. |
| instructions from detailing programs that identifies | | | | That would be comparing apples and oranges. This |
| exactly where the holes belong. Then, the drill head | | | | machine, the PythonX, can do so much more than |
| probes to understand its position and shape before it | | | | any beam line". |
| starts making holes. | | | | "We've increased our overall production by 100% |
| Oh, and did we mention . . . the machine cuts really | | | | since we got this new machine. Now we do double |
| fast. | | | | the work with the same number of employees and |
| However, most structural steel sections need more | | | | the same floorspace." |
| than just bolt holes. Copes, notches, slots, weld prep | | | | To understand the the complete picture of this new |
| bevels, miter cuts, scribes and marks are just some | | | | technology that includes all the functions of a beam |
| of the other features that are needed. Can a beam | | | | line, but so may more, it really helps to view videos |
| line handle these additional tasks? No, it cannot. | | | | of it 'on the job' cutting practically every feature a |
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| cost-effectiveness to these varying operations that | | | | plasma cutting wonder machine and its advantages |
| the beam line brought to making bolt holes. This | | | | over the beam line. |