Nowadays, laser equipment is changing with each passing day. The pace of new equipment replacing old equipment as the new mainstream of the manufacturing industry is accelerating, such as fiber laser cutting machine replacing CO2 laser cutting machine. Then why does the fiber laser cutting machine replace the CO2 laser cutting machine? Let's analyze it from three aspects.
1. CO2 laser has complex structure, high maintenance cost, and large beam divergence during processing, which is not suitable for large format processing. Although the cutting seam is relatively thin, it is very slow in processing thick plates. The laser characteristics of the optical fiber laser cutting machine are characterized by miniaturization, intensification, high brightness and high conversion rate. In the thin plate processing, the cutting speed of the optical fiber laser cutting machine with the same power is 2-3 times higher than that of CO2, and the cutting section is smooth.
2. CO2 laser cutting machine: the maintenance cost is high, the front mirror and tail mirror are expensive, the life of turbine bearing is short, and the replacement cost is high. Optical fiber laser cutting machine: maintenance free, basically free of consumables, capable of working in harsh environments, and highly tolerant of dust, shock, impact, humidity and temperature.
3. The photoelectric conversion rate of CO2 laser cutting machine is only 8% - 10%, while that of fiber laser cutting machine can reach 30%. For factory production, even if only 1% increase, it can save a lot of costs in the long run.
Source: Haimu Star laser sheet metal intelligent equipment
