Laser Manufacturing

Learn, Network & Explore the Possibilities By Betsy Marone In its fifth year, Laser Institute of America’s Lasers for Manufacturing Event® (LME®) will continue its tradition of offering attendees a unique and comprehensive two-day look into the laser industry. Taking place at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, GA, April 26-27, LME will serve as […]

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David Havrilla to Present Principles of High-Power Laser Welding at LME 2014

Orlando, FL (Sept. 17, 2014) – Presenting first in what will be a two-day education track, David Havrilla will lead a tutorial on Principles of High Power Laser Welding on Tuesday, Sept. 23, the first day of the Laser Institute of America’s fourth annual Lasers for Manufacturing Event® (LME®), in Schaumburg, IL. Havrilla is the manager […]

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LIA’s Laser U Releases New Laser Applications & Safety Course Modules for Flexible Continuing Education

ORLANDO, FL, Oct. 2, 2013 — The Laser Institute of America has added a dozen cutting-edge modules to Laser U, its innovative online laser education portal. Seven of the new courses come from LIA’s Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM®) Workshop, while five more emerge from the biennial International Laser Safety Conference (ILSC®) held in Orlando in […]

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Welding Characteristics of Foturan Glass Using Ultrashort Laser Pulses

By Isamu Miyamoto, Yasuhiro Okamoto, Kristian Cvecek, Michael Schmidt, Henry Helvajian While glass is widely used in different industrial field due to its excellent physical and chemical properties, there exist no reliable joining procedures of glass at the moment. We have developed a novel fusion welding procedure of glass that can weld glass even with […]

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Production of High-Quality Welds Using Hybrid Laser/GMAW on Thick Steel

By Lorraine Blais, Novika Solutions In the last years, several groups have worked on the development of hybrid laser/GMAW welding (HLAW), for various segments of the industry.  Depending on the intended application, the objectives are significantly different, and the definition of quality itself can differ a lot.  Nevertheless, new HLAW applications usually benefit from the […]

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