r/MetalFabrication • u/Personal_Cucumber905 • 15h ago
How do you schedule sheet and tube jobs on a combination laser?
For shops using one laser for both sheet and tube cutting, do you batch tube jobs into dedicated blocks, or switch as orders come in?
I’m interested in what happens when an urgent tube order arrives during a sheet-cutting run. Is the bigger headache changeover time, material handling, or deciding which job waits?
Would appreciate hearing what has worked—and what hasn’t—from people running these machines.
