ATOM Flashcut Dual Oscillating Knife Cutting System is a complete line-up of oscillating knife cutting tables, available in several models with either a flat or inclined cutting surface with sizes up too 6.100mm x 2.600mm (able to support 2 full bovine hides at the same time.) The ATOM knife cutting table is a result of 60+ years experience in the cutting field, experience collected by following our customers and paying detailed attention to their feedback and actual cutting needs.
The possibility to add over-head digital cameras for material contour recognition, projectors to visualize the cutting layout & assisted parts collection & the powerful yet easy to use control software with the cutting edge automatic + interactive nesting software are key components to the Flashcuts points of strength, making it the ideal cutting solution for a variety of industries processing diverse amounts of synthetic material.
The traditional reliability of ATOM's mechanical components, together with the powerful & flexible production control software make the Flashcut an efficient, versatile & powerful dieless cutting system suitable for:
- footwear, leathergoods, garments, sports gear;
- car upholstery & internal parts
- gaskets in their various form (tanged graphoil included)
- foam & rubber up to 20mm thick
- cardboard and related packaging
- technical textiles & composites
- adhesive & non-adhesive products
- and many, many more.............
All of this with a single cutting system.
The introduction of the ATOM Flashcut Dual Oscillating Knife Cutting Table into the design or production department of a factory allows:
- The dramatic reduction of those problems associated with the manufacturing, management and storing of cutting dies.
- A significant increase in production flexibility.
- A considerable reduction in the time required for the preparation of models and the introduction of the finished product(s) to the marketplace.
This dieless cutting table is the ideal solution for small and medium production runs for every company. With a Flashcut system, accurate dieless cutting is simple and inexpensive. Quality and life of the components along with the precise control, high speed cutting and punching speeds, user friendliness, low running costs and high degree of safety, make it the perfect solution for knife cutting applications.
ATOM Flashcut Dieless Knife Cutting Systems Main Operating Features
- Two Independent Working Areas: While the machine is cutting on an area the operator can collect cut parts, prepare the next material & lay-out on the other one. It is possible to equip the machine with a dual projection system to perform nesting even on large materials occupying the entire cutting surface.
- Precision Cutting & Parts Ready for Next Production Stage: Often times materials cut with other technologies require some further refinement before being used. An example of this are components used for footwear soles: often must be milled to meet the required tolerances. Using an ATOM knife cutting system will guarantee sharp precise cuts which can be immediately assembled on the finished product.
- Overhead High Brightness Projectors: The overhead projectors allow a clear visualization of parts and commands on all materials. This allows the cutting operation to be faster and more accurate. Gasket fabricators enjoy the flexibility of the projectors because now they can cut any remnant or scrap, no matter how irregular the shape, by manually placing parts within the area.
With any Flashcut model, three minutes is sufficient time to switch from cutting the softer, thin materials to the hardest, thicker product:
- Smart Vacuum System: The Flashcut cutting surface is divided into different sectors, each 12" x 12", which can be independently activated. The operator can either use the digital mouse to manually set activation status of each section or let the machine automatically activate just those sectors where the cutting is performed. Concentrating the vacuum power just where it is needed allows increased cutting speeds without affecting the cut quality & precision. With this feature, it is possible to cut a wider range of materials while power consumption is minimized.
- Powerful & Versatile Cutting Head: The multiple tool cutting head allows sophisticated jobs, including engravings, perfect control on the cutting depth. The extremely powerful pneumatic knife chuck allows the cutting of very hard materials like 1/8 non-asbestos, tanged graphoil, 3/4 rubber, heavy leather, fiberboard etc. in just one pass.
- Solid Framework & High Planarity: The machine framework is extremely solid & strong, indigent to an ATOM cutting system. The precision in the manufacturing of the cutting plane ensures a perfect parallelism between the material & the cutting head, granting a homogeneous cutting precision on the whole surface.
- Operator Safety: All of the Flashcut dieless knife cutters are equipped with state-of-the-art safety equipment which meet and exceed CE safety rules & regulations and are in full compliance with OSHA.
- Advanced yet Simple to Use Control Software: All of the ATOM knife cutting tables are powered by advanced and reliable control software which manage any operation using a simple menu designed to operate quickly & simplify operator training. The power of the software can partially substitute operator skill; with the exception of leather hide quality marking & complex manual nesting which require experienced operators, for any other operation a few hours training is sufficient.
- Automatic or Interactive Nesting: The Flashcut knife cutters use a very powerful & versatile automatic nesting system. The main features included are:
Assists the operator in handling quantities & in respecting production constraints;
Ability to define layouts manually quickly;
Automatic material contour recognition (models with digital camera only) and manual contour definition;
Automatic nesting with defects, quality area & production constraints advanced management;
Mixed nesting: the operator is able to manually place some parts & then start the automatic nesting to complete the layout.
High operating efficiency with interactive nesting, highly optimized layouts with outstanding yields thanks to the sophisticated nesting algorithms.
The ATOM Flashcut Dieless Knife Cutting Tables are divided into two great families, accordingly with the kind of cutting surface:
- Flat Table Cutting Systems.
- Inclined Table Cutting Systems.
Flat Cutting Surface machines allow the operator too work on the four sides of the table, cut material up too 6.1 x 2.6 meters (equivalent too two full bovine hides) & double productivity using two cutting heads.
Model 15155 (1.550M x 1.550M)
Model 30155 (3.000M x 1,550M)
Flashcut HD 30155
Model 30180 (3.000M x 1.800M)
Model 50155 (5.000M x 1.550M)
Model 61260 (6.100M x 2.100M)
Inclined Cutting machines allow the operator to have better accessibility to the materials, perform all the operations from the front side of the machine, & work very efficiently with materials up too 3 x 1 meters.
Model 1610 (1.600M x 1.000M)
Model 2510 (2.500M x 1.000M)
Model 3010 (3.000M x 1.000M)
ATOM & Manufacturers Supplies Company are not only synonymous with cutting systems but first level customer service as well.
With the ATOM Flashcut you can rely on a team of technicians and cutting experts ready to assist over the phone or in the field if needed. All spare parts can be ordered on-line, via phone or telefax. All major credit cards are accepted.
Five Tool Integrated Cutting Head
An oscillating knife mechanism, manufactured from the finest quality materials available, provides a strong and reliable mechanism that will last a life time; two punches (offering the use of tools with different diameters) along with fully electronic control of their movement to enable a punching frequency of more than 200 punches per minute (by far superior to other available systems), and seperate pen and pricker mechanisms to round out the grouping.
High Flatness of the Cutting Surface
Achieved, thanks to special machining. It provides perfect parallelism between the material supporting surface and the cutting tools, thereby ensuring a consistently high cutting quality and above all uniformity of punching, and contributes greatly to reduce the running and maintenance costs.
Advanced Safety Systems
In developing this system, particular attention was given to operator safety; to provide the easiest handling, but in a totally safe environment. ATOM believes that safety at work is a matter of primary importance; therefore we have addressed our efforts to increase the safety levels beyond the currently adopted European regulations.
The Standard System Configuration Consists of:
Two Independent Working Areas
The two independent working areas allows the simultaneous execution of both cutting and lay planning. The high brightness projector provides and extremely clear representation of the shapes to be nested, even on the most difficult surfaces that normally do not respond well to image projection because of color or surface finish.
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Suction by Sectors
The non-movement of the material during cutting is of prime importance in knife cutting systems of this nature, since it allows for precision at high cutting speeds and increases the types of materials that can be cut. Suction by sectors, is a totally automatic function, which controls the activation of the necessary sectors, relative to the materials shapes and size, by means of a dedicated software control, to concentrate the suction only where needed. It enables the material to be perfectly secured during cutting without the waste of energy in those areas devoid of material. This same feature may be selected manually.
Variable Power of the Vacuum Pump
As a famous advertisement said, "power is nothing without control"; the possibility of varying the pump vacuum power, allows the use of high vacuum for the best stability of certain materials and it's reduction whenever less is needed, thus promoting better energy use.
Automatic Nesting
The installed software package provides the following additional capabilities, in addition to the standard functions of interactive positioning:
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Acquisition of the Leather Contour; (material boundary) both manually (through digitization) and fully automatic (by means of the suitable video camera).
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Defects Marking; which enables the operator to mark leather defects, so as to signal to the semi-automatic or automatic positioning devices, the points where to avoid placing the pieces to be cut.
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Inner Nesting; this function allows, the operator, by means of the interactive positioning of three or more pieces, to define areas (vertices of which are represented by the positioned pieces) inside which it is possible to carry out the automatic nesting.
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Semi-automatic positioning; which automatically fills those areas of the leather where no piece has been manually positioned, thus allowing the operator to concentrate merely on the positioning of the most important pieces.
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Automatic Positioning; automatically carries out the optimized positioning of the pieces to be cut. This software, can, at present, keep notice of leather defects, partially of the directional constraints, but not the quality areas--it is particularly suitable for cutting linings.
Optional Devices
The following optional devices are also available for the ATOM Flashcut knife cutting table:
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Video Camera; for the automatic acquisition of the leather contour, which is useful for the automatic optimised ly planning of the pieces to be cut.
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Special Head TOP Type; which allows cutting of foam with thickness up to a maximum of 30mm, and leather up to 5mm thick.
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4220 Rider Trail North
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St. Louis, MO 63045
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TEL: 1-314-770-0880
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106 Commerce Blvd.
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Cincinnati, OH 45140
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TEL: 1-513-677-3311
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Email information@mfgsup.com
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