One of the world’s largest steel producers can now test the quality of its steel while it undergoes plasma cutting – a process which heats the metal to 30,000°C.
The metal engineers test the material by stretching, breaking and drilling it – image courtesy of Thyssenkrupp. To perform a quality test at one of Thyssenkrupp’s steel plants, a high-speed automated plasma cutting-head removes a sample out of each sheet. A state-of-the-art protective wall separates the metal engineer and the cutting process, since the…
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