According to statistics, China is the country with the largest elevator consumption and ownership in the world. In 2016, the domestic elevator ownership was nearly 4.3 million, and 65% of the world's elevators were sold in China.
As we all know, the common materials used in elevators are stainless steel plates and membrane materials. The requirements for the smoothness of these materials are relatively high. With the increasing demand of the market, the cycle of new elevator products is also getting shorter and shorter. There are a wide variety of sheet metal parts in the elevator market, and some of them need to be customized according to customer needs. Tonnage and mold are also limited. Multi station stamping machines sometimes fail to meet processing needs, and sometimes the mold manufacturing cycle is longer, which makes the production cycle longer. Therefore, they are gradually replaced by optical fiber laser cutting machines. So what is the difference between traditional elevator processing and fiber laser technology? How did fiber laser cutting break out in the elevator market?
1. Traditional processing methods
In the past, the whole machine factory basically used multi station punch to process plates, mainly including turning, milling, planing, drilling, grinding and other processing procedures. They mainly rely on external mechanical force to use harder tools to complete the stripping process of excess metal layers. The program is complex and the workpiece is changeable, which consumes a lot of human, material and financial resources.
2. CO2 laser processing mode
CO2 laser cutting machine is the first laser processing equipment used in the domestic elevator industry. Using non mechanical energy such as light, electricity and chemistry to complete the stripping process of materials, we can use materials with lower hardness to realize the processing of high hardness materials. Compared with the traditional processing method, laser processing has the unique advantages of non-contact, easy processing, safety and environmental protection.
3. Optical fiber laser cutting machine occupies the elevator market
Elevator manufacturing is basically based on stainless steel of about 3mm, and the processing with CO2 laser cutting machine consumes high power and gas. CO2 laser cutting machine can not keep up with the development of elevator industry because of its high cost, complex debugging and other shortcomings. The new fiber laser cutting machine has the advantages of extremely fast speed, ultra-low operation cost, cutting high reflective materials such as copper and aluminum, and no external light path. It is gradually replacing the CO2 laser cutting machine and has become the preferred tool in the elevator processing industry.
Therefore, compared with the traditional processing technology, fiber laser cutting technology has obvious advantages. The cutting speed is accelerated and the production efficiency is improved.