With the improvement of people’s living standards, customers have increasingly high requirements on the appearance and quality of elevators, especially for some high-end residential areas, villas, and business office buildings. Therefore, the commonly used materials for elevators are stainless steel plates and membrane materials, and the smoothness of these materials is highly required. According to statistics, China has the largest number of elevators in the world. In 2016, there were nearly 4.5 million elevators in China, and 60% of the global elevators were sold in China. With the increase of market demand, the production cycle of elevators is required to be shorter and shorter. There are many kinds of metal plates in the elevator market. Some of them need to be customized according to customer needs. Tonnage and tooling are also limited. Sometimes the punch cannot meet the processing requirements, and sometimes the mold manufacturing cycle is long, extending the production cycle. Therefore, these types of production methods are gradually replaced by optical fiber laser cutting machines.
Compared with the traditional elevator production mode, what are the advantages of optical fiber laser cutting machine in the elevator manufacturing market? Compared with the traditional elevator production mode, what are the advantages of optical fiber laser cutting machine in the elevator manufacturing market?
What is the difference between the traditional elevator production mode and the fiber laser technology? How does optical fiber laser cutting stand out in the elevator market?
1. Traditional processing method
In the past, the whole machinery factory basically used multi station stamping to process plates, mainly including turning, milling, planing, drilling and grinding. They mainly rely on external mechanical force and use hard tools to complete the stripping process of redundant metal layers. The procedure is complex, and the workpiece is easy to replace, which consumes a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources.
2. CO2 laser processing method
CO2 laser cutting machine is a laser processing equipment used in domestic elevator industry. Optical, electrical, chemical and other non mechanical energy can be used to complete the stripping process of materials, while the processing of high hardness materials can be realized by materials with lower hardness. Compared with traditional processing methods, laser processing has unique advantages such as non-contact, easy processing, safety and environmental protection.
3. What are the advantages of optical fiber laser cutting machine in the elevator market
The manufacturing of elevators is basically based on 2-3 mm stainless steel, some even 5 mm. CO2 laser cutting machine has high power consumption and consumes a lot of gas. Due to high cost and complex debugging, CO2 laser cutting machine cannot keep up with the development of elevator industry. The new optical fiber laser cutting machine has the advantages of extremely fast speed, low operating cost, high reflectivity materials such as copper and aluminum, no obvious external optical path, etc; It has gradually replaced the CO2 laser cutting machine; Whether it is the production cycle requirements or the overall cost; Optical fiber laser cutting machine is the preferred model in the elevator industry.
Therefore, compared with traditional processing technology, fiber laser cutting technology has obvious advantages; Accelerate cutting speed and improve production efficiency.
