RITMAN Laser Supports Lean Production In The Tower Industry

The road to innovation in the power tower industry

With the transformation of the global energy structure and the rapid development of information technology, the tower industry is facing more market demands and development opportunities. As of June 30, 2023, China Tower's total operating revenue was 46.461 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.4%. In terms of tower business, approximately 325,000 5G construction requirements were completed in the first half of the year.

While entering the fast lane of industry development, the tower industry is also facing the pressure of technological innovation and transformation and upgrading: tower construction cycle is long, capital investment is large, payback period is long, technical problems need to be further overcome, and enterprises need to increase investment in research and development and technological innovation have also put forward higher requirements for its production and manufacturing quality and efficiency. Improving quality and efficiency has become the only way to optimize the industry.

RITMAN Laser: Improving quality and efficiency for customers

"Every challenge is an opportunity." At the crossroads of development, many companies in the tower industry choose to update and iterate production and manufacturing tools during the period of rapid development. An iron tower manufacturing company in Shandong, China is one of the representatives. Recently, the company reached a strategic cooperation agreement with RITMAN Laser to purchase 30kw laser cutting equipment. It will use laser cutting technology to innovate its own productivity and lay the foundation for improving the quality and efficiency of orders and reaching new heights.

RITMAN Laser's products: “real” in every detail

The iron tower is a tower structure used for power transmission, which is characterized by a space truss structure. In the process of tower manufacturing, parts processing is the most critical link in tower manufacturing, which mainly includes blanking, hole making, bending, root cleaning, back shoveling, correction, etc. Laser cutting technology can be used to manufacture the entire tower's angle steel, connecting plates, beams, diagonal braces and foundations.

Due to the heavy load, the iron tower has high requirements for the stability of the base and the overall structure; rough bolts are used between the connecting rods of the iron tower and are fixed by shear force of the bolts. Therefore, the processing precision, accuracy and processing quality of the parts are very important. They all have extremely high requirements. The RITMAN Laser's product purchased by this company is the U3 series, which has high cutting precision and smooth cutting surface, providing a specific and effective solution for the production and manufacturing of towers——

1. Overweight plates: cutting and forming in one step without blind spots

Tower components such as angle steel, channel steel, steel plates and steel pipes are all overweight materials, with medium and thick plates above 16mm being the main ones, with large and long plates accounting for a large proportion. In actual production, it is difficult to form in one step and requires secondary optimization after cutting, making the process complicated.

For this type of ultra-long and overweight pipes and profiles, RITMAN Laser has launched a floor-rail cutting machine to achieve cutting without blind spots at any port. It can also be used with a bevel cutting head to achieve a variety of bevels from 0-45° and straight cutting in one go, effectively It ensures the stability of bearing high-altitude loads for a long time and accurately meets the processing needs of tower angle steel.

2. Connectors and reinforcements: improving the quality of cutting and hole making

Workpieces such as flanges, flange reinforcements, and angle iron connectors in tower manufacturing have high requirements on cutting accuracy and hole-making technology, and require no deviation in bolt holes. Compared with traditional methods such as flame cutting and carbon dioxide cutting, RITMAN Laser floor-rail cutting equipment improves cutting accuracy by 50% and saves 40% on the hole making process. Small hole cutting can intelligently retract the knife, cutting accurately without slag, and optimizing bottom hanging. The problem of bulges and bulges on the inner wall of the hole eliminates the need for a secondary grinding process and enables a high-speed, high-precision, high-function cutting solution, truly achieving "worry-free, green, and intelligent manufacturing."

3. The performance of the ground rail model is stable: worry-free large-format cutting

RITMAN Laser's U3 series floor-rail fiber laser cutting machine uses a highly rigid modular sheet support stand. It can cut medium-thick plates with a maximum width of 3m and a format length of 26m. It is affected by impact and cutting heat of the sheet. Or hot slag contamination is not easy to deform or damage, and has a long service life. Even if there is damage, only the corresponding module needs to be repaired or replaced, which is convenient and low-cost.

RITMAN Laser: Contributing to the industry

Choosing RITMAN Laser not only means that customers choose to use cutting-edge laser cutting technology to innovate their own production and manufacturing, but also deeply integrates the power tower industry with laser cutting, and forges "iron steel bones" for the tower industry with high-quality products. In the future, RITMAN Laser will continue to adhere to the path of specialization and new development, serve customers in the tower industry with high-quality + moderately priced cutting equipment, realize a path of production and manufacturing optimization that improves quality, increase efficiency, and reduce costs, and create new opportunities for the industry. High efficiency and high value, contributing to China's manufacturing path of lean and recyclable development.