Traditional sheet metal cutting equipment and process flow

The conventional sheet metal processing technology is: shearing-punching-bending-welding process or flame plasma cutting-bending-welding process. In the face of multi-variety, small-batch, customized, high-quality, short-delivery orders, it has obvious shortcomings:

● (Numerical control) shearing machine can only be used in sheet metal processing that only requires straight line cutting because it mainly cuts in a straight line;

● (Numerical control/brick tower) punching machines have restrictions on cutting steel plates with a thickness of more than 1.5mm, and the surface quality is not good, the cost is high, the noise is large, and it is not conducive to environmental protection;

● Flame cutting, as the original traditional cutting method, has large thermal deformation during cutting, wide kerf, waste of material, slow processing speed, and is only suitable for rough processing;

● The processing speed of high-pressure water cutting is slow, causing serious pollution and high consumption costs.

New sheet metal cutting equipment and process flow – laser cutting

Laser cutting is a technological revolution in sheet metal processing, and it is the “processing center” in sheet metal processing. The laser cutting process has the advantages of flexibility and high flexibility. In view of the problems existing in traditional sheet metal cutting at this stage, the demand for laser cutting is also increasing.

The advantages of the new sheet metal cutting process are:

● Laser cutting has a high degree of flexibility, fast cutting speed, high production efficiency, and short product production cycle. No matter it is simple or complex parts, laser can be used to realize rapid prototyping and cutting at one time;

● Narrow kerf, good cutting quality, high degree of automation, easy operation, low labor intensity and no pollution;

● It can realize automatic layout and nesting for cutting, which improves the utilization rate of materials, has no tool wear, and has good material adaptability;

● Low production cost and good economic benefit.

Most sheet metal processing is provided by large and medium-sized enterprises. Users have different products, high requirements, and urgent needs for goods. Therefore, it is recommended to use high-power, large-format laser cutting machines. The power is high, the cutting ability is improved, and the cutting efficiency is also improved; the format is large, the material utilization rate is high, and it can meet the cutting needs of different formats.

Maiman Technology’s bright surface cutting technology can be grafted to conventional 3-6m format models, and can also be matched with Maiman Technology’s large-format 3-24m large-format WALC series. Considering the variety of products in the sheet metal processing industry and the different needs of customers, It is recommended to choose a laser with a power of more than 3000 watts, which can solve the cutting of carbon steel within 20mm and stainless steel within 10mm.

Cutting sample display

　　Maiman Technology has launched a high-performance laser cutting product – MF6020 fiber laser cutting machine for customers who need to upgrade laser cutting equipment in processing stations . It has super high cost performance, masters the core light source technology, and has low maintenance costs, which can solve the problems of growing customers’ investment income ratio and high equipment maintenance costs.

 The biggest feature of laser processing technology is that it can be processed without molds. The use of laser blanking saves the use of a large number of molds, shortens production time, reduces product costs, and better gains advantages in the market, which is conducive to various types of small batches Product production and mass production.