In recent years, thousands of laser have become standard products in the field of industrial laser, and the popularity of thousands of laser has greatly improved the efficiency and capacity boundary of industrial processing. However, as a large number of manufacturers poured into the Ganwa track, homogeneous competition also caught this market into the Red Sea of a "price war." This environment has also caused China's fiber laser market to fall into a stagnant situation of "seemingly rising".
Try to break the fiber laser homogeneity
To break this market dilemma, many companies have begun to seek differentiated competition routes. At present, for fiber laser, the more obvious three routes are high power, high brightness, and miniaturization.
High power is the main theme of the development of optical fiber laser in the past few years. With the popularization of thousands of laser, 30,000 watts, 4,000 watts, and 50,000 watts have entered the metal processing market one after another. For the laser itself, its core difficulty is that the power of the device is the power of the device. Tolerance and long -term stability; for practical applications, the lack of stable and reliable supporting parts is the biggest obstacle of its development.
High brightness is actually the basic attribute of returning laser. By increasing the energy density of the unit area, the effect of high brightness and low power replace and high power. At the same time, it has obvious advantages Control of stability and non -linear effect.
Smallization is a key to open the new world of laser application -smaller volume, lighter weight, and higher integration, which subverts the past awareness of laser processing, and has spawned the handheld laser welding, handheld laser cleaning, etc. Portable laser tools have greatly promoted the development of laser applications.
In the past, the author has repeatedly discussed the development trend of high power, high brightness and market conditions. Today, we will focus on the miniaturization market trend.
The process of miniaturization of thousands of laser laser
Because fiber laser can achieve power improvement through module superposition and convergence, the overall volume of the laser is also increasing during the process of increased the power of the fiber laser. In 2017, a 6KW fiber laser with multiple 2KW modules combined into the industrial market was adopted into the industrial market. In the following years, 8KW, 12KW, 15kW, 20KW laser appeared one after another, but at that time, even 20KW laser was combined on the basis of 2KW or 3KW, which caused the finished product to be huge. Although the performance has improved, the excessive volume also brings great trouble to the transportation and assembly of users. With the increasingly obvious demand, laser manufacturers have begun to think about how to reduce the volume of the whole machine.
The initial main idea is to increase the power of a single laser module, and gradually increase the past 3KW to 4KW and 5KW, and reduce the volume by reducing the number of bamaitors of the 10,000 -wa laser. However, at this stage, the number of modules that suddenly decreased and the sudden increase in single module power have made great challenges to the stability of the core of the laser.
When the above challenges are overcome one after another, another major advantage of single -module laser begins to appear -no need to pass the co -beam single -module laser, the quality of the beam is greatly improved, and the performance of multi -mode laser is significantly improved in the fields of thin plate processing and precision manufacturing. As a result, high -power single module laser began to integrate independent products and laser equipment.
At this stage, domestic laser manufacturers have optimized and improved the application scenarios and optical characteristics of single -module laser. After several years of hard work, a single module 12KW laser came out. Compared with the multi -mode 12KW laser, the volume of the single module 12kW laser is reduced by about 60 %, the weight is reduced by about 40 %, and the processing capacity of the materials is comparable to 15kW. It can be said that the core idea of this stage is: with a smaller single -module laser to replace multi -mocolarial laser in some application scenarios.
Under the direction of pursuing a smaller volume, some laser manufacturers have begun to conceive a new design concept and realize the volume of single -module laser. Taking the relatively complete Kaiplin as an example (Kaiprin named the miniaturized product Lightning series, for the convenience of the narrative, the Kaiplin miniaturized product is collectively referred to as the lightning series laser) -
In the original volume of 1500W and 2000W power segment, the volume of the lightning series was reduced by 40 % again, the weight was reduced by 25 %, the volume of the 3000W power segment was reduced by nearly 75 %, and the weight was reduced by 50 %. The 6000W power segment with the most obvious changes, the volume of the lightning laser has been reduced by nearly 90 %, and the weight is almost 75 % lower than the old laser! The "Big Brother" of the Lightning Series, the Lightning 12KW fiber laser, reduced the volume of 75 % compared with the old single module laser, and the weight was reduced by 60 %.
The pioneering soil of the small laser
It can be said that this disruptive volume reduction has a huge impact on downstream, and the most obvious is the handheld laser welding market. Early handheld laser welding machine, equipped with cold water machines, old -fashioned 1000W single -module laser, the cabinet volume reaches 1.05m? (Equivalent to the volume of an old -fashioned washing machine). With the outbreak of the market in recent years and the user's requirements for portable, it has become a unanimous pursuit of handheld welding manufacturers. After a subversive "retractable" lightning series laser, it is possible to make a trunk installing two handheld welding machines.
For sheet metal processing users, the new form of this drawing design allows the laser to ship with the complete set of equipment. ", Can also save more than 30 % of the installation time.
Another focus that attracted attention was that the cost of sea transportation rose sharply in 2022, which increased the transportation cost of exporting companies. The significant reduction in the volume of laser means that the number of laser that can be loaded in the same container increased significantly, and it also means that the number of containers required for the same number of laser can be reduced, which can save a large number of freight for the enterprise. In particular, overseas agents can also gain greater competitive advantages due to the decrease in logistics costs.
Judging from the current market data, miniaturized laser has been initially accepted by the market. In the first year of Kaiplin's release of Lightning series laser, this series of laser achieved nearly 20,000 units, and led to Kiplin to achieve a proud record of 300 % year -on -year increase in the shipment of fiber laser. It can be said that in the current small laser track, Kiplin has become a well -deserved leading corporate representative.
Why can Lightning Laser succeed?
The Lightning series laser was launched in April 2022, but Chen Xiaohua, chairman of Keplin, has realized that the future laser industry will definitely develop in a more intelligent and integrated direction in the future. After several years of user research and market analysis, President Chen gradually improved the design concept of Less is more, and personally re -designed the fiber -fiber laser, and finally formed today's Lightning series laser.
The core concept of the Lightning Series is Less is more, that is, to obtain more application scenarios by compressed volume and reduce excess space. To practice the concept of less is more, we must follow the "three non -principles" -the material without waste, no waste volume, no waste of work hours.
Through the guidelines of the core concept and the three non -principles, the efficiency of raw materials to finished products has been greatly improved, and the user experience experience is greatly improved, and the needs of users' convenient use, saving transportation costs, and saving space for installation. To achieve success, it is not enough to rely on the concept. For industrial standard products, stability can be said to be the assessment standards over any other indicators. In terms of ensuring the stability of the laser, Kaiplin apparently worked hard.
The first is the stability of the pump source. Kaipulin is one of the earliest companies in China to develop optical fiber laser pump source research and development. After 20 years of market polishing, it has accumulated very strong technical assets and refined the "dense space arrangement theory". Based on this theory, Keiprin has developed a high -power and high -brightness fourth -generation industrial pump technology, which has become the core guarantee for the stability of Lightning series laser.
Secondly, Caprican has a highly integrated and modular design of laser, and has been fully upgraded to pump source, optical road systems, thermal control management and electronic control systems, which can effectively reduce the pressure of heat management. Further supplement with a stable and reliable mandatory water circulation thermal control management solution and the optimization design of the cooling system, the superiority and effective effect of active optical fiber heat dissipation and overall structural temperature control ensure the long -term stability of laser output power and wavelength.
In terms of intelligence, the Kaiplin Lightning Laser is connected to the Internet of Things technology. Through Bluetooth centralized control functions, it can monitor the status and work parameters in real time, and conduct a fault warning to reduce the fault rate of the equipment and improve the stability of the equipment.
Outlook -the development prospects of small -scale laser
In the first year of listing, a huge successful lightning laser is obtained, which proves the feasibility of the small -scale route of optical laser in the industrial field. It is foreseeable that a smaller and more portable laser will appear in the near future. More application scenarios that current laser cannot be involved in the current laser is also expected to become a new outbreak point for the laser industry after the further development of miniaturization.
Zhujun may wish to imagine that when the laptop -sized laser of the laptop is came out, what kind of impact will the application scenarios and product design concepts of the entire laser industry? Is the cutting machine, handheld welding machine still the current form? What changes will the laser machining automation production line will no longer need to have a separate laser position? What kind of "killing device" will be born with such ultra -small laser and drones? Where is the miniaturized limit boundary?
