Multiaxis Lasers Come of Age:lntegrating Best-in-Class Components Creates Highly Productive Manufacturing Systems

As the next generation of commercial aircraft takes center stage, behind the scenes multiaxis lasers have quietly become major players in aerospace manufacturing. Turning out critical components such as turbine-engine blades, nozzle guide vanes, shrouds, combustors, and even air frames increasingly depends on advances in multiaxis lasers that speed manufacturing, improve quality, and reduce part costs In addition to aerospace components, multiaxis lasers have become important systems for making everything from automotive prototypes to medical devices. An everincreasing number of products are now designed with the capabilities and benefits of laser processing in mind In the past, applications largely arose only when lasers were more cost effective than incumbent production processes. Now, manufacturers are taking advantage of laser's capabilities to generate components that would be cost prohibitive or impractical with other methods.