Comparison of advantages of different types of cutting machines

What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Fiber Laser Cutting Machine?

What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Fiber Laser Cutting Machine?

Fiber laser cutting is a high-end technological revolution in sheet metal processing, which breaks through the limitations of traditional cutting machines, brings safer, more convenient, and more efficient working effects, and makes cutting precision reach higher standards. Below I will introduce the advantages and disadvantages of traditional cutting methods and laser cutting technology respectively.

Flame cutting

The flame cutting machine mainly cuts thick steel plates above 40mm. However, it has the disadvantages of material waste, wide kerf, slow speed, large thermal deformation, etc., and is only suitable for rough machining.

CNC shearing machine

Although the CNC shearing machine can cut plates up to 4m long, it can only be used for sheet metal processing that requires straight line cutting.

Plasma cutting

Plasma cutting is similar to oxy fuel cutting in that they both have a larger heat-affected zone. But it's faster and more accurate. However, it also has disadvantages such as expensive consumables, large thermal deformation, large slope, and low precision.

Punching

Punching machines have higher flexibility in curve processing. A punch press has one or more round, square, or other shaped punches that can process multiple sheet metal workpieces at a time. On the one hand, it can quickly cut simple patterns and thin plates; on the other hand, it has poor stamping ability on thick steel plates. Even if it can be done, the steel face will collapse, which will cost mold.

High pressure water cutting

High-pressure water cutting is a CNC cutting technology that uses high-speed water jets mixed with emery to cut metal sheets. Since there is no limit to the cutting material, it can cut various special materials such as ceramics, glass, aluminum, copper, etc., and the cutting thickness of some materials can reach 100mm. However, the high-pressure water cutting technology has disadvantages such as slow cutting speed, poor environmental protection, and high consumption.

Laser cutting

Advantage

1. Higher performance and security

Compared with traditional cutting machines, metal fiber laser cutting machines have higher working performance and safety. Therefore, the metal fiber laser cutting machine has the advantages of fast speed, high efficiency, and continuous operation. What's more, there is no need to maintain the fiber laser metal cutting machine, which greatly saves a lot of cost. And provide strong power for continuous production, improve work efficiency, and ensure better work quality.

2. Higher accuracy

CNC laser cutting machine has higher precision than an ordinary cutting machine. Moreover, the processing effect is better, material waste caused by poor cutting precision is avoided, and a large amount of production costs is saved. Therefore, production efficiency is greatly improved and a better cutting effect is achieved.

3. Higher efficiency

Due to high flexibility, fast cutting speed, high production efficiency, and short production cycle, laser cutting machines can quickly and accurately cut simple and complex machine parts in just one pass.

4. Better results

Optical fiber CNC laser cutting machine has the characteristics of good cutting quality, convenient operation, and narrow cutting gap. That's why it can realize CNC laser cutting products with no cutting force, no deformation, and no tool wear. In addition, it has good material adaptability, which can realize automatic laser cutting typesetting and nesting. At the same time, the utilization rate and benefit of materials are improved, and pollution and production costs are reduced.