Historically, the manufacture of industrial casters combines forging, casting, stamping, and welding processes. The key components of the manufacturing process have not changed, and some of the changes that have been made in modern manufacturing technology have been developed. The key components of forging and casting casters and wheels have not changed significantly in the past 50 years. Many manufactured products, the same size and shape in these processes, are completely unchanged. Part of the significant change in the manufacture of industrial casters is the manufacture of the continuous casting machine drilling platform, which is the body of the caster. In the past, the standard components of the stamping parts for the drilling rig were made, the forgings of the rotating parts or welding with each other. The standard components used in the design are iron engineering to modifythe design, fittings such as brakes or toe guards, and then soldered.

           The manufacture of casters to a new level, has completely changed the motivation of casters manufacturing, and the following three aspects need to be improved in production direction: 

          1) increase strength

           2) improve quality

           3) shorten the production time of the final product. 

          These improvements are removed from the laser cutting and shaping rig, which removes about 40% of the welding, greatly changing the design / construction process. Let's briefly discuss these three key improvements.   

        1. Increased strength - in the production of heavy casters legs connected to the platform, is made in a single flat blank. The blank is developed to accommodate the material that will be consumed, and the upper legs are formed. The forming process, with a bending machine, so that the leg in a 90 degree direction, platform legs material moved. In a "ixturing / welding process" the legs will be welded to the platform in the traditional way. In the forming process, when the completion, the error rate is 25%, than the welding product, can not fail, unless there is a major part of the total failure. Complete removal of potential faults from finished products during laser cutting / forming. 

          2. Improved quality when components are used in the stamping process, the initial failure of a clean material (about half the thickness of the material), the rest of the material will escape, leaving an edge with a variation of the range within 0.03 inches. When a part is laser cut, the edge quality and hole (axle placement) can be kept at 0.002 inches. The most significant effect, such accuracy is in the fact that with the axis, instead of grinding to the final size of the hole, the hole is cut off the initial ideal candidate, significantly improving the quality of the final product.           3. Shorten the production cycle, if properly designed part of the laser cutting / processing, which is close to the finished product time is cut off the results of the formation process. The reason for this is that all the components of the rig are integrated into the original laser to be blank, thus avoiding very little or no additional welding. Avoiding the two process will speed up the manufacture of the product and control the additional cost at the same time.