Products such as structural steel buildings, bridges, tunnels, architectural facades, and metal doors and windows frequently utilize large-format steel plates, long profiles, and medium-to-heavy plate components. Although traditional flame or plasma cutting can process thick plates, they often induce large heat-affected zones (HAZ), rough edge finishes, and dimensional deviations, necessitating post-processing such as trimming, grinding, drilling, and manual layout marking. Moreover, the heavy weight of large plates requires repetitive crane lifting and repositioning, which not only lowers efficiency but also elevates occupational safety risks.
For large and heavy plate processing, Tailift configures high-power, large-format, or gantry-type fiber laser cutting machines to complete part contours, hole patterns, slotting, and partial beveling in a single setup. Thin-sheet building materials, doors, windows, and architectural hardware can be rapidly punched and formed in high volumes using turret punch presses. Long-bed, heavy-tonnage CNC press brakes handle the forming of large structural panels and long profiles. Coupled with gantry-type loading/unloading, plate handling, and automated sorting systems, manual crane rigging frequency is significantly diminished.
Key Performance Improvements
Large plate blanking throughput increased by 20% to 45%
Trimming, drilling, and grinding labor hours reduced by 20% to 40%
Repetitive handling instances reduced by 30% to 50%
Rework volume caused by dimensional errors decreased by 10% to 25%