Automatic Laser Cutting Machine

Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the
need for human work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of industrialization,
automation is a step beyond mechanization. Whereas mechanization provided human operators
with machinery to assist them with the muscular requirements of work, automation greatly
decreases the need for human sensory and mental requirements as well. Automation plays an
increasingly important role in the world economy and in daily experience.
In todays world of automation everything is done at higher accuracies and precision.
Industry today made improvisation in existing methods.
Laser cutting is a technology that uses a laser to cut materials, and is typically used for industrial
manufacturing applications, but is also starting to be used by schools, small businesses and
hobbyists. Laser cutting works by directing the output of a high-power laser at the material to be
cut. The material then melts, burns, vaporizes away, or is blown away by a jet of gas, leaving an
edge with a high-quality surface finish. Industrial laser cutters are used to cut flat-sheet material
as well as structural and piping materials. The aim of this project is to show a low cost
demonstration of what actually happens in the industry.
A Microcontroller is used for automation of electromechanical processes, such as control
of machinery on factory assembly lines, amusement rides, or lighting fixtures. The
Microcontroller is used for achieving precise control over the Laser cutting process.

Importance:

Increase in speed.
Reduces fatigue of operation.
To save time.
Process can be made fully automatic.
Manual errors can be avoided.
reduced chance of warping the material that is being cut, as laser systems have a small
heat-affected zone

Block Diagram:
Relay
Driver
Microcontroll
er
Power
Supply
5 Volts

Relay
Driver
Power
Supply
12Volts

Stampin
g
Motor
Conveye
r
Motor

Mechanical Assembly:

M1

M
M2

M-Motor for conveyer

M1-Laser Holding Motor

P1- Proxy Sensors L-Laser

M2: Movement Motor

G-Job