Unlocking the Future of Manufacturing: Advanced Processing Heads

From remote laser welding and fiber laser cutting to brazing, wire welding, and providing integrated machine vision systems, our solutions are driving efficiency, precision, and quality to new heights. Join us on a journey through the latest advancements in laser technology and discover how Coherent is shaping the future of automotive, white goods, energy, and other manufacturing sectors.

How to Get Ahead in Carbody and Hang-on Parts Production

Want to reduce postprocessing, eliminate filler, and prevent cracking while at the same time delivering the speed, positional precision, and weld quality required for autobody and hang-on parts production?

The 3D Remote Laser Welding Head RLSK enables even the most complex weld paths and brings the following advantages:

• Accomplish zero-gap welding of galvanized steel without spatter or weld pores.

• Avoid cracks when welding aluminum 6000 alloys - without filler wire.

• Weld high-strength steels at rapid feed rates with no subsequent cold cracking.

Our RLSK processing heads provide the essential elements of speed, positional accuracy, and weld excellence necessary for autobody, powertrain, and hang-on parts production. Additionally, they meet the rigorous demands of e-mobility assembly, including battery and motor joining tasks.

Its 3D capability enables the remote laser processing head to accurately position the beam along the robot's high-speed movements, resulting in a laser welding process with maximum efficiency. Watch the video to get more insights.

How to Get Ahead in Laser Cutting

Empower your production processes for high-speed fiber laser cutting of sheet metals, including mild steel, stainless steel, brass, copper, and aluminum, unlocking the potential for ultra-high-power operations.

The Coherent BIMO-FSC3 laser cutting heads have especially been designed to meet some of the most important emerging production trends in automotive, white goods, energy, and other manufacturing sectors. They are compatible with both standard and beam-shaping fiber lasers and offer a unique optical design, with a large focus and zoom range that enables excellent cutting performance on a wide range of materials and high thicknesses.

The BIMO-FSC3 family is designed to perform with up to 30 kW of laser power and includes height-sensing capabilities and a large depth of focus.

Want to know, how to enable sheet metal cutting up 50 mm thick, with superior uptime and reliability? Explore what our next-gen laser cutting heads have up their sleeves for you.

How To Get Ahead In Laser Brazing And Wire Welding

Do you want to get high-quality brazes and weld joints consistently, even on complex shaped parts, with a tool that is still easy to configure?

HIGHtactile is a reliable production tool for brazing and aluminum wire welding in automotive assembly – including roofs, trunk lids, and rain channels – as well as e-mobility manufacturing processes like battery box assembly and joining dissimilar materials.

The processing head can be used with a wide range of fiber-delivered lasers, wire types, and process monitoring systems. It combines advanced sensor and servo technology to deliver precise force control, with an interface that enables rapid setup.

For welding with filler wire and brazing, HIGHtactile applies pressure to the wire along the joint between parts. By measuring the forces applied, it detects changes in joint position as it travels along the seam.

Learn more about the tactile seam-tracking process head HIGHtactile

Our HIGHtactile offers enhanced productivity and superior results for EV manufacturing, body-in-white, and other assembly applications.

Discover how to simplify and improve the wire welding process with HIGHtactile.

How To Get Ahead In Demanding Remote Welding Applications

Realize the most demanding remote welding applications in e-mobility manufacturing and automotive assembly by integrating vision capabilities directly into Coherent processing heads. This offers users a single-source solution that delivers better results and is easier to bring on-line. Advanced machine vision algorithms deliver precise control, high accuracy, and rapid detection times and the graphical interface simplifies task setup, such as defining process limits and error conditions.

The integrated machine vision system HIGHvision is available for the HIGHmotion 2D processing head position matching for 2D welding, shape recognition, and hairpin welding.

HIGHvision incorporates features and software modules that make it particularly useful for various common automotive but also new EV welding tasks.

Find out more about how HIGHvision speeds and improves precision fiber laser welding.

Find out more about HIGHvision and all available packages such as the template matching or the hairpin detection package.

Get detailed info on the product HIGHvision.

How To Get Ahead In Welding Aluminum And Copper

Deep copper welding with infrared laser has been a challenge in the past due to copper’s high reflectivity and low absorption for this wavelength. This can be overcome by using a high-brightness beam to quickly change the materials' properties at the beginning of the process.

Together with the new low numerical aperture (NA) version of the HighLight FL-ARM fiber laser, the HIGHmotion 2D with its additional lower magnification option achieves high brightness, focused laser spots over a best-in-class scan area size with minimal focal shift. This enables deep welds required for e-mobility at fast processing speeds.

The new lower magnification HIGHmotion 2D processing head maintains all the capabilities of this industry-proven laser welding scanner, including positioning precision and high-power stability. It produces high-quality welds on even the most challenging materials – including aluminum and copper.

This approach provides a larger process window, meaning a more stable, robust, and repeatable process.

There is a new approach to accomplish deep copper welding of EV components such as busbars with an infrared laser. Read all about it in our blog about Faster Deep Penetration Welding.

The HIGHmotion 2D works with conventional and ARM fiber lasers up to 8 kW CW, over field sizes of 251 mm x 372 mm.

Learn more about the flexible 2D remote laser welding head HIGHmotion 2D.