Many steel tubes, beams and pipes must be coping to ensure that they fit into an assembly. These assemblies are often required to fit together unusual-shaped and irregular angles like handrails, bumpers, and racecar roll cases. Coping allows for all parts to fit in their place, regardless of their size or shape.
The most versatile application process in most cases is coping and the machine capable of being as close to a “all-in-one” solution as possible is a robotic plasma processor. Rat holes, seismic structural design connections like jay-allan and “dog bone” cuts, copes at the lead or trail end of a product, block outs, holes in any size, weld preparations, marking on all sides – all are possible to process with a plasma unit and a robot.