Flash Cutting or Digital Knife Cutting

What is Digital Knife Cutting?

A Digital knife cutting machine, also called a CNC knife cutting machine or CNC oscillating knife cutting, is a type of automatic precise cutting system with CNC. It is also known as Flash cutting, dieless cutting, automated cutting, reciprocating knife cutting system. This cutting system utilizes a CNC machine to create custom parts in a small of amount time which is in minutes. It is used for the cutting of soft like rubber and semi-rigid material. It provides accurate cutting of rubber and other materials including foam. It contains a fixed blade, pizza wheel, electric oscillating blade, and more, making cutting heavy material too easy.

Flash cutting systems are similar to water jet cutting except in the waterjet the water with very high pressure is used and in the flash cutting systems the oscillating knife or blade is used. The digital knife cutting provides the best quality, reliability and performance similar to the waterjet cutting. But the Knife cutting is a less expensive and efficient cutting process compared to the waterjet.

The process of cutting flashes uses CNC machines to cut and hold material ranging from .001 to an inch to 3/4 inch thick. Additionally, it offers customization options and quicker turn-around time for production. The process of cutting with flash allows users to create prototypes using CAD drawings. It also create custom-designed products in just a few minutes.

The flash cutter is installed with projectors to visualize the cutting layout which means better utilization of material and less cost to the consumer.

Reasons to use digital knife cutting.

If you think that you can cut a heavy material without the use of digital knife cutting or flash-cut gasket cutting services, in that case, this section will help you to understand why you should use digital knife cutting to cut hard material. The following are the reason for using a digital knife cutting –

1. Environment friendly

Traditional ways of cutting heavy material produce a lot of gases and dust, which harm the environment badly. Digital knife cutting happens with a blade; it doesn’t produce harmful and toxic gases like traditional cutting machines, which improves environmental protection.

2. Multifunctional cutting edge

Another advantage of digital cutting machines is they have a multifunctional cutting edge. The digital knife cutting machine has multiple sets of tools and blades that can be used to cut a rigid material in an interactive design and perform punching and scribing operations.

3. Digital cutting system

Digital Knife Cutting machine or machine in a custom flash cutting gasket services can be connected to GBOS open, compatible with IoT devices. It also monitors real-time capacity and supports different data formats interacting simultaneously. Moreover, CNC oscillating knife cutting can also remind you of equipment data, product quality, machine failures, etc.

4. Reduce costs

Digital knife cutting machines can also save money by reducing labor and time management costs. It also enables a standard and simple development as it avoids the wastage of material by eliminating interference from personal factors like emotions and fatigue.

5. Dieless cutting

You might be unaware of digital knife cutting services, also called dieless knife cutting services. Digital knife cutting doesn’t require several laborers to perform a cutting task nor it requires any additional tools like other manufacturing methods. It provides a complete break from the traditional manual knife and mold cutting process. That is why it is also called digital dieless cutting.

Flash Cutting Benefits

No tooling or die costs
Easy ‘upload & cut’ software
Perfect for rapid prototyping
Capable of larger gaskets and shapes
Custom shapes, parts, and gaskets—fast

Applications:

The Flash cutting or knife cutting systems are efficient, versatile, and powerful system suitable for a wide variety of industries and applications:

Gasket materials
Soft plastics
Rubber
Conveyor belting
Adhesives & Laminated Materials
Foam
Sponge
Industrial Fabrics and Technical Textiles
Interior Upholstery
Paper, corrugated and printed materials

At SantopSeal we have a state-of-the-art flash cutters, which cuts the parts accurately with high quality and efficient cutting speed. Our knife or flash cutters operate on autoCAD files including dxf, dwg and many other which allows us to work with various files of the customer and also allows us to do unlimited customizations, quickly and easily while maintaining the same high quality of the cut part. ‘Our flash cutters are equipped with oscillating knives and powerful automation technology and are extremely fast, accurate, do not waste material and, in so doing, increase yields while lowering the cost of parts.