Benefits Of Laser Cutting Machines
Manufacturers are using laser cutters more and more. Laser cutting is highly accurate, making it easy for manufacturers to produce cuts and etchings with incredible precision quickly. Typically used in industrial manufacturing, the laser cutting process works by using a highly focused beam of light to cut materials. There are many different sorts of laser cutting technologies, and they each work differently. With most laser cutters, the material is blown away by jets of gas, burned or vaporised, producing a high precision cut, etching, edge, or boring. Laser cutters increase both the speed and quality of the cutting process because lasers do not need to be replaced in the same way that the blades on other cutting machines do. Following are ten things lasers can do:
1. Laser Cutting can be used to cut various materials with a high level of precision, from sheet metal to wood, wax, ceramics and plastics.
2. Laser cutting machines have no blades and consequently, will not wear out with time. This means that you can use the laser as many times as you want with little maintenance and no reduction in quality.
3. Laser cutting, because of its precision and minimal impact on the parts of the material you are not trying to cut, can achieve sufficient results even with materials that would be difficult or even impossible to cut by mechanical means.
4. Since the laser is highly accurate and has such a limited area of effect, it can cut materials without damaging the surrounding material in any way. In contrast with other types of heat-cutting, a laser’s heat is very concentrated, stopping it from damaging the material close to the cut.
5. Materials that do not melt, such as some plastics, carbon, and wood, can be laser cut using a vaporisation process, where the waste material is vaporised, effectively removing it.
6. Laser cutting allows you to produce cuts, boring, and etchings to extremely fine tolerances. Most laser cutting machines can be positioned accurately to tolerances between 5 and 10 micrometres. (.000005m-.00001m) A micrometre is less than the width of a strand of human hair.
7. Laser cutters are normally very simple to use, in and of themselves and do not demand a lot of skill or training. Most laser cutting tool suppliers will give you what training is needed.
8. Laser cutting tools allow you to cut down significantly on clean up time and effort because they produce a lesser amount of waste than other cutting machines. Metal is cut without shavings and wood is cut without sawdust. In many instances, the waste material left behind can be cleaned up using a standard shop vac.
9. Laser cutting machines can be used to create similar effects to those of an oxygen torch but with greater precision and consistency. This is known as ‘reactive cutting’ and is often used with steel which is over 1mm thick.
10. Laser cutting tools could be used to crack heat-sensitive materials in a controlled way. Typically used when cutting or etching glass, this technique allows the manufacturer to manipulate the way in which the glass cracks.