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The Mexican structural steel fabricator, Ferrominio Steel, continues to update their facility with FICEP’s innovative technology. This all started in 2017 when they installed numerous FICEP CNC fabrication lines to fabricate angles, plates and structural steel. Most recently Ferrominio Steel turned again to FICEP to continue to automate their facility. The most recent addition was the FICEP NOZOMI plasma cutting robot for structural steel processing.
The NOZOMI utilizes Hypertherm’s “True Hole” plasma cutting technology to generate bolt holes, copes, weld preps, rat holes, mechanical openings and scribing data to eliminate manual layout. All of the required programming information for these operations are automatically imported from the CAD drawing with FICEP’s patented software. This innovative software eliminates all manual programming to establish the required plasma cycles. The generation of layout with plasma marking not only includes the location of the intersecting member but also its orientation, the part number of the intersecting element and the weld symbol if required.
As FICEP the first firm to introduce robotics for thermal cutting of structural steel shapes they quickly realized that probing of the section was a time-consuming process. In view of the mill tolerance deviations of structural steel shapes the ability to find the different material surfaces and edges is critical to establish the accuracy of location and reliable torch ignition. FICEP was the first firm to integrate non-contact laser probing into the thermal cutting process of structural steel.
