Compared with the traditional manufacturing process, laser cutting has obvious advantages. Laser cutting combines highly concentrated energy and pressure, making it possible to cut smaller and narrower material areas, and significantly reduce heat and material waste. Because of its high accuracy, laser cutting can create complex geometries with smoother edges and clearer cutting effects.
The main advantage of using laser cutting technology is that it can reduce the mechanical stress borne by sheet metal parts during cutting. The laser not only eliminates the impact stress that may adversely affect the sheet metal products in the cutting process, but also has a very small heating area. With this advantage, the rest of the workpiece is hardly affected by heat, thus retaining the characteristics of the material being processed.
In addition, considering that laser cutting can make the cut parts very close to each other without adversely affecting them, it helps to minimize waste – tight cutting can make more parts per square meter of sheet metal used.
What are the unique advantages of laser cutting?
Several key factors contribute to the widespread popularity of laser cutting in metal processing projects. First, laser cutting has unparalleled accuracy, which is a key advantage compared with other traditional technologies. In addition, whenever a clean cut and a smoother edge finish are required, laser cutting can guarantee first-class performance, because the laser energy used for cutting with a high focus beam can maintain strict tolerances around the required cutting area.
The heat affected zone of laser cutting is very small, so the processed material is less affected by warpage or deformation caused by microstructure changes. Unlike other cutting technologies, laser cutting can cut highly complex geometries with higher accuracy and excellent tolerance levels.
The laser can be used to cut large thickness materials, and it is easy to cut the desired shape. Perhaps most importantly, the laser cutting process is very fast and can be repeated with high accuracy. Due to the narrow slits generated, this method can achieve a higher level of paper and sheet metal utilization through effective part nesting – which can save material use and reduce the cost related to overall waste waste.
