Automating Structural Tubing and Process Piping Fabrication

In the heavy industrial sectors of fabrication manual pipe and tube cutting and handling can be an overriding concern. Structural steel tubing design, cutting and erection and process piping often requires multiple intersection cuts and cleanup is time consuming when done by hand. Overcoming this pipe-cutting challenge using an automated fabrication process can speed up the cutting and handling process. Using an integrated conveyer system and a computer numerically controlled (CNC) cutting system can prove to save money and hours of production time.

 

 

 

 

The fabrication demands of the structural tubing and process piping industries sometimes require miles of pipeline, hundreds of process modules, and sizeable support structures. Manually cutting tubing and piping of this volume leads to significant time spent grinding or cleaning the cuts prior to assembly. Many large fabrication companies are seeking out new, efficient and precise automated machinery to increase speed and reduce costs. The time-consuming process of manual loading, cutting, clean up, and unloading of large pipe is a thing of past.

 

 

 

 

 

The Vernon Tool™ MPM Pipe Cutting Machine offers automated CNC cutting and automated loading and unloading of pipe. The servo driven rollers on which the pipe sits fully support and rotate the pipe during cutting. Lifter conveyers engage for auto entrance and discharge of the pipe before and after cutting. This safe and efficient material handling uses variable speed with reversible power feed to gently load and unload pipe from the cutting bed with no overhead lifting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plasma and oxy fuel compatible, the MPM offers a capacity of 2” to 84” diameters. The automatic servo driven height-sensing system vertically compensates position for out of round pipe dramatically reducing secondary processes in clean up.

 

Vernon Tool™ automatic pipe cutting machines offer easy operation ensuring fast, accurate cuts every time driving down production time and cost. The MPM is the ideal machine for process piping, power piping and structural tubing.

 

 

For more information call a Vernon Tool™ specialist today at (775) 673-2200.