Case Study · Associated Welding and profile cutting

Precision commissioning and high-output parameter tuning.

Customer

Associated Welding and Profile Cutting

Owner

Joshua Woolcock

Machine

12kW Han's Fiber Laser

Sector

Heavy Fabrication

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“Kyle and the team were professional and got the machine commissioned in no time. We cut over 60 samples to get the machine dialled in perfectly.”

 

Joshua Woolcock

Owner · Associated Welding and Profile Cutting

By The Numbers

4

x

Faster than plasma

12

KW

Han's fiber power

80

MM

Max plate thickness

Chapter 01 · The Partnership

A bottleneck on heavy plate.

For Joshua Woolcock, “good enough” was never on the table. Associated Welding and Profile Cutting runs to tight tolerances on every job. When it came time to invest in a new fiber laser, the machine had to perform — but so did the commissioning team behind it. Intermach’s approach was to treat the install as the beginning, not the handover. The real work happens when the machine meets the material.

Chapter 02 · The Intermach Advantage

A 12kW Han's. Three things changed.

Expert Commissioning

Kyle and the Intermach team brought decades of hands-on experience to the install. Not a rushed handover — a proper, thorough commissioning process with the customer at every step.

Sample Mastery

60+ samples were cut to dial the machine in perfectly for Associated Welding’s specific materials and jobs. Parameters were not left “good enough” — they were optimised until the machine logic matched the work.

Zero-Lag Startup

The goal was to get from delivery to production in the shortest window possible. By the time Intermach left the floor, the machine was running to spec and the operators knew exactly what they were doing.

Chapter 03 · The Result

A day's work, done in a shift.

The result wasn’t just a working machine — it was a machine working at its best, immediately. Joshua’s facility went into production with confidence, backed by parameters that were proven before Intermach walked out the door.

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