Overview: Modern manufacturing industry is focusing its interests on thepotential offered by the laser, in combination with other newtechnologies such as optical fibres, automation, computing andflexible manufacturing systems, to give new and powerful methods fornon-destructive testing, in-process quality assurance, laser materialprocessing and process control, and laser robotics..The greatest opportunities for the laser are in those areas whereflexibility, automation, CAD/CAM integration, precision, costreduction, and time to market are important factors. The examplescovered here are mainly d
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