Herochu Auto Fiber Laser Cutting Loading & Unloading Line System
Turn your sheet-metal workshop into a 24-hour profit engine—without adding a single operator.
When every quote is won or lost on lead-time, the difference between a job-shop that survives and one that scales is invisible on the floor: it moves while you sleep. The Herochu Auto Fiber Laser Cutting Loading & Unloading Line System is a modular, CE-ISO-EU triple-certified production cell that couples a high-dynamic storage tower directly to your existing laser—so sheets are picked, sorted, cut and returned to inventory without human touch, starting at USD 8,900 and configurable to the centimetre of your available space.
Forget “automated” solutions that still need a forklift driver at 2 a.m. Herochu’s two-tower plate warehouse keeps 8–13 floors of material online (3 t or 5 t per shelf) and delivers the next sheet to the shuttle in 110 seconds—continuously. A linear-guide plus chain-drive elevator lifts at 9 m/min while the inlet/outlet conveyor transfers at 12 m/min; the result is a sustained rhythm that feeds even 6 kW and 12 kW fiber lasers at full burn, shift after shift. Whether you cut 0.5 mm aluminium signage or 25 mm mild-steel structural parts, the line maintains ±0.05 mm positioning repeatability across 3015, 4015, 4020, 6015, 6020 and 6025 mm formats, so nest yield is maximised and secondary deburring eliminated.
Radiation-tight, accident-tight, profit-tight
A full-coverage enclosure with interlocked access and Category-4 safety PLCs keeps both Class-4 laser radiation and fast-moving gantries away from personnel, reducing insurance premiums and freeing operators for higher-value tasks such as nesting optimisation or customer liaison. Inside the cell, proprietary height sensors map every finished pallet in real time; when a stack reaches its preset height, the WMS pushes an alert to the foreman’s phone and automatically requests a new empty pallet—no overproduction, no floor clutter, no hidden scrap costs.
Zero-tail economics
Traditional shuttle tables leave 40–120 mm skeletons on every sheet. Herochu’s micro-tab micro-joint algorithm releases parts with 2 mm micro-tabs, then the dual rake unloading comb separates finished components from scrap while the next sheet is already under the head. Customers report 8–14 % material savings in the first quarter alone, enough to amortise the entire line before the annual audit.
Nitrogen-free, energy-lite
Under 4 kW the unit can switch to compressed-air cutting, dropping running cost to below USD 0.30 per metre on 10 mm stainless—one tenth of conventional nitrogen-assisted jobs. A regenerative drive on the Z-axis feeds braking energy back to the grid, shaving a further 6 % off electricity bills. Over a three-year horizon, total cost of ownership beats any standalone laser without automation, even when depreciation and finance charges are included.
Plug-and-play customisation
Because every workshop roofline, column grid and future expansion plan is different, Herochu ships the tower in bolt-together modules that fit through a standard 2.5 m pedestrian door. Install takes 48 hours including laser interface, Ethernet handshake and MES integration. Choose single or double shuttle, 3 t or 5 t shelf rating, chain or belt outfeed, right-hand or left-hand configuration. Add an optional second tower later without shutting down production; the control software auto-detects the new capacity and re-optimises pick sequences overnight.
Industries already cutting faster tonight
- Elevator cabs: 4 × 2 m mirror-finish stainless processed at 00:30 a.m. for 07:00 a.m. assembly
- HVAC ducting: 1.2 mm galvanised nested 94 % efficiency, 300 variants per night
- Commercial vehicles: 8 mm high-strength steel for tipper bodies, cut length tolerance ±0.2 mm for robotic welding
- Architectural façades: 3 mm aluminium composite with protective film intact, zero ghosting
- Kitchen equipment: 0.8 mm #4 finish exported directly to bending cell, no secondary polishing
Support that never clocks off
Purchase includes lifetime access to the Herochu Cloud Nest library with 1,200 pre-tested cutting parameters, free online training for up to five staff, and 24-hour remote diagnostics through a secure VPN tunnel. Should on-site intervention be required, a technician can be airborne within 24 hours from any of our service hubs in Stuttgart, Dubai, Chicago or Singapore. Software updates are released quarterly and installed overnight, so your depreciation schedule is protected against technology drift.
Specifications at a glance
- Storage towers: 8–13 floors, 3 t or 5 t per floor
- Sheet formats: 3015 / 4015 / 4020 / 6015 / 6020 / 6025 mm (others on request)
- Loading cycle: ≤ 110 s continuous
- Lifting speed: 9 m/min servo-controlled
- Transfer speed: 12 m/min precision chain drive
- Positioning accuracy: ±0.05 mm across full table
- Safety: CE Machinery Directive, EU 12100 risk assessment, ISO 9001:2015
- Interface: Ethernet/IP, OPC-UA, Modbus-TCP ready for MES/ERP
- Power supply: 380–480 V 50/60 Hz, regenerative braking module
- Noise level: < 68 dB(A) at 1 m
Next step
Send us your floor plan, target annual tonnage and electricity tariff. Within one working day you will receive a ROI calculation, 3-D layout and finance lease option that shows payback in months—not years. Herochu Auto Fiber Laser Cutting Loading & Unloading Line System: let the night shift work for you, so you can wake up to finished pallets, invoices paid and capacity still left for the next big order.
