Types of laser cutting machines and their advantages and disadvantages-Cathy

Laser cutting machine types include CO2 laser cutting machine, YAG laser cutting machine, fiber laser cutting machine. Below will list you the advantages and the disadvantages of these three types machines.

Firstly for CO2 laser cutting machine: it is leader in thick plate cutting area, and it has unique advantages in thick plate cutting area.

Advantage: it is mature earlier than fiber laser. It can effectively complete the perfect cutting of thick plates. It can cut 20mm above stainless steel and 10mm above carbon steel. Most used for cutting hulls.

Disadvantage:Price is high, for the single unit price can reach RMB1600000. Also the use cost is high, take 4KW as example, the maintenance cost is about RMB400000 a year.

Second, for YAG laser cutting machine:It’s widely used when the cutting machine in the early stage. Now it is currently few in the market. Laser generated by xenon tube.

Advantage: High laser intensity, it is common use in cutting plate, has low price. It can cut brass, aluminum and other high reflective materials

Disadvantage: Large power consumption and high consumables. The beam quality is low and the cutting effect is general. It needs regular dimming and maintenance.

Third, for fiber laser cutting machine: it developed very fast in recent years. It is more and more popular in metal processing industry.It is gradually replacing the plasma cutting machine, CO2 laser cutting machine, YAG laser cutting machine, and shearing machine and so on.

Advantage: low power consumption, no gas consumption, adjustment-free, maintenance-free, high stability, good output beam quality, faster cutting speed. Also no maintenance on the external optical path, good consistency of the whole workpiece cutting, very less consumables , small size, light weight, movable working position, small footprint, long service life.

Disadvantage:It’s speed is slow when cutting thick metal plate. And it can not long time cut brass, copper, aluminum and other high-reflective materials.