China's sheet metal processing industry is developing rapidly every year, and China can now be said to be Asia's sheet metal processing and manufacturing center. With the maturity of the manufacturing system, China's machinery manufacturing industry also has a place in the world, and the sheet metal industry is the fundamental industry of the machinery manufacturing industry.

1.Current Situation Of Sheet Metal Processing Industry

After years of development, China's sheet metal processing industry has gone to the world, and has a certain market share among many customers in the world. According to statistics, the number of existing enterprises in China's sheet metal processing industry exceeds 30000, the number of employees exceeds 1.8 million, the annual consumption of sheet metal parts exceeds 40 million tons, and the total sales amount reaches 500 billion yuan.

From the perspective of all metal processing, sheet metal processing only accounts for 20%~30%, but a large part of manufacturing industries will involve sheet metal processing, such as computers, machinery and agricultural machinery, fitness, textiles, electrical instruments, sanitation, kitchen and bathroom, office, etc.

2.Laser Cutting Method Of Sheet Metal

Laser cutting is realized by using high power density energy generated after laser focusing. Under the control of the computer, the laser is discharged through pulses to output a controlled repetitive high frequency pulse laser, forming a beam of a certain frequency and a certain pulse width. The pulse laser beam is transmitted and reflected through the optical path and focused on the surface of the processed object through the focusing lens group, forming tiny, high energy density light spots.

The focus spots are located near the surface to be processed, melting or gasification the processed material at an instant high temperature. Under the control of the computer, the laser processing head and the material to be processed carry out continuous relative movement and dot according to the pre drawn figure, so that the object can be processed into the desired shape.

3.Laser Cutting Market

The metal industry is an important application market of laser processing. The competition in the domestic sheet metal industry has now gradually transformed into high-tech product competition. Now the market competition is big. The products that customers need to process are multilateral, demanding and urgent. In order to adapt to the development of the market, sheet metal processing will be transformed. Laser cutting, laser welding and other laser processing technologies will be more and more used in various industries. The metal laser cutting machine has become a leader in the metal sheet processing industry due to its outstanding performance in non-contact processing, high precision, high speed, high efficiency and other aspects. As a high-precision processing method, metal laser cutting machine can process most materials, which has set off an important revolution in the metal sheet processing industry. It is said that since the laser cutting machine appeared in the sheet metal industry, it has saved tens of billions of dollars for the sheet metal processing industry every year.

4.Advantages Of Laser Cutting

4.1Intelligent control improves efficiency

Nowadays, metal cutting is generally equipped with numerical control software. After the model diagram is determined, the software intelligently formulates the optimal path for cutting, which greatly improves the utilization rate of metal sheet materials, reduces the use and consumption of materials, and also reduces the work intensity of employees to achieve satisfactory results with minimal effort. Not only that, it can also improve the versatility of blanking, ignore the blanking stage of sheet metal cutting, effectively reduce the clamping of raw materials, and reduce the length of auxiliary tools for production and manufacturing. Therefore, the cutting plan can be allocated more effectively, and the production and manufacturing speed and raw material saving can be effectively improved.

4.2 Time saving and fast speed

In the current market environment, the most important thing is speed. The speed of commodity R&D and production represents the sales market. The application of metal laser cutting machine does not need to research and develop the mold, which saves the time of mold development and new product development. The quality of materials after laser cutting is excellent, and the work efficiency is greatly improved, which is conducive to the production and manufacturing of small batch production, and strongly guarantees the sales market atmosphere that the commodity development time needs to be reduced day by day. The application of laser cutting can carry out accurate and precise positioning of the size of blanking die, laying a solid foundation for future batch production.

4.3 Less process and lower cost

In the operation of the sheet metal processing plant, almost any part can be formed once on the metal laser cutting machine, and can be directly combined with the electric welding. Therefore, the application of the metal laser cutting machine reduces the process flow and duration, effectively improves the work efficiency, can maintain the two-way improvement and reduction of staff work intensity and production cost, promote the improvement of the working environment, and greatly improve the speed and progress of research and development, Reduce injection mold investment, which effectively reduces the cost.

With the rise of the laser cutting machine industry, the sheet metal processing industry has been better developed. Compared with the traditional cutting methods, the laser cutting machine is easier to operate, easier to learn, and can efficiently make the process effect that meets the needs of businesses. Therefore, laser cutting is still the mainstream development trend in the selection of future cutting methods.

About HGTECH: HGTECH is the pioneer and leader of laser industrial application in China, and the authoritative provider of global laser processing solutions. We have comprehensively arranged laser intelligent machine, measurement and automation production lines, and smart factory construction to provide overall solutions for intelligent manufacturing.