Category: Machine Tools

Plasma and Lasers—Aren’t They Basically the Same? Both plasma cutters and fiber lasers cut metal with heat, and they usually involve a cutting head that moves on an assembly above a table holding a large workpiece, but that’s about as far as the similarities go. A plasma cutter uses a combination of inert gases and […]

Something for Every Laser Cutting Need While perhaps best known for their world-class press brakes and plate rolls, Revolution Machine Tools offers top-of-the line metal-cutting fiber lasers as well. RMT has more recently entered the tube cutting fiber laser market, but it is in the sheet metal/plate metal cutting arena where—excuse the pun—RMT’s fiber lasers […]

Everything Wears Out It’s a universally understood truth that the only things that are certain are death and taxes. Along the way to death, however, there is usually decline. People and things get older and tend to break down. Just as seasoned workers sadly often get replaced by younger employees, sometimes newer technologies make old […]