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. With the increasing popularity of laser applications, the emergence of various new scenes and new needs has also put forward more requirements for laser manufacturers. During the development of laser, the author found that "miniaturization" is becoming a new wave, which has attracted many mainstream manufacturers to enter the game in recent years. What kind of competitive potential does this emerging, smaller -volume laser have?
Single -module thousand -tile laser -small volume and high -power laser application
As we all know, the commonly used laser on the market usually uses a multi -mocoarcut method. Through multiple independent small -power fiber laser modules, "multi -power low -power laser" coupling "high -power laser". Being able to increase power through bamboons is exactly one of the key features of fiber laser replacing other laser as one of the mainstream selection of metal processing.
However, with the emergence of higher power demand, people find that the number of modules involved in the closure will significantly reduce the quality of the beam, which will affect the cutting accuracy and end surface quality. To ensure high -quality high -power output, the number of laser modules involved in the joints must be reduced, and the key is to increase the output power of a single laser module.
Under the guidance of this concept, some manufacturers have begun to invest in the development of high -power laser in single modules. In 2018, the domestic 10 -tile laser (through the 2KW, 3KW laser module bouquet) began to move towards industrial applications. After 2019, a single module 4KW, a single module 5kW, and a single module 6KW laser will be released one after another. Until 2021, the single module 12KW laser begins Enter the industrial market.
The emergence of a single -module laser makes 40kW, 50KW, and even higher power multi -mode laser beams easier. At the same time, the laser after beam is also maintained with relatively ideal beam quality to ensure the quality of processing. For single -module laser itself, better beam quality and faster cutting speed (cutting stainless steel speed below 6mm to shoulder 20kW multi -mode laser, cutting 8-20mm stainless steel speed compared with 15kW multimodilica laser) also quickly favored by the market. Essence At the same time, the volume of a single module 12KW laser decreased by about 60 % compared with the multi -mode 12KW laser, and the weight decreased by about 40 %, which took the first step in the exploration of small volume and high -power fiber laser lasers.
The volume is only 1/10 -fiber -fiber lasers are refined into "bone shrinkage"
Although the volume of a single module 12kW laser has been greatly reduced, there is no substantial change for integrators and end users -it still needs independent land occupation area and needs to build an independent air -conditioned room. Can small -volume fiber laser, can the volume be smaller? Can substantial changes to laser equipment?
Soon, the Beijing hot laser gave the answer.
In 2022, thermal laser launched the smallest single module 12kW optical fiber laser -FC12000 as of now. It is understood that this laser is only 0.096m3, which is 12 % of the 12KW single module laser in the domestic head! At the same time, this laser weight is less than 160kg (including power cords, control lines), about 32 % of peers. It can be said that this is another shocking volume change after a single module laser initiates the "volume revolution" to multi -mode laser.
The emergence of Tottenham small -volume laser brings a new idea to laser cutting equipment -canceling the separate air -conditioning room and integrate the laser into the machine tool control cabinet. This means that the integration of laser equipment will be further improved, and users will no longer need to reserve the location of the air -conditioned house, and equipment maintenance will become easier.
More importantly, due to the well -known, the cost of sea transportation rose sharply in 2022, and even the freight is more expensive than the goods. In such an environment, if more goods can be installed in a container, it will save huge logistics costs for enterprises. The author is informed that this 12kW laser with only 1/10 of similar products has taken root in overseas markets such as India and Mexico. With the advantages of new machine tool structures and huge logistics costs, it has become the best choice for overseas users.
It is foreseeable that the success of the fiber laser "bone shrinking" is expected to subvert the existing fiber laser market pattern. The small area and lower logistics costs have also greatly reduced the burden on the user, allowing the integrator to "reduce the burden" and let the end users "reduce costs and increase efficiency"; in addition, this volume is only 1/10 in the past 1/10 The new form of optical fiber laser will also greatly enrich the application scenarios of optical fiber laser equipment, realize the expansion of the wider laser blue ocean market, and break the internal pattern with innovation.
Yangfan Blue Ocean -Cut into the automation production line and embrace intelligent manufacturing
It is undeniable that sheet metal cutting applications in the past ten years are the most important promoters in the development of optical fiber laser. In the market, the market, technical indicators are no longer the main basis for manufacturers to buy equipment. And this also causes the "red sea" of the fiber laser market. The emergence of small -volume lasers, in addition to solving the defects of the high failure rate of traditional multi -mode laser, it is also expected to achieve the break of the Red Sea market with many advantages and further open a new scene and new market for laser applications.
The traditional sheet metal cutting market often corresponds to large surface laser processing machine tools, compared with the area of the machine tool itself and the area of electronic control cabinets, cold water machines, air compressors and other accessories, and laser places are mostly 5-10 square meters. big. However, for some production lines (automobiles, auto parts, lithium battery, etc.) with high degree of automation, the space for each station is limited and cannot be resettled by large laser and high -power cold water machines. Therefore, the emergence of small -volume laser can quickly fill the precision processing scenarios that have obvious laser processing advantages but fail to popularize due to factors such as costs and spaces.
Especially at the moment, automation and intelligence are popularized to various manufacturing fields with irreversible trends. In areas such as automobiles, auto parts, and lithium batteries are inseparable from laser manufacturing, the intelligent upgrade of the production line will bring a lot of demand for laser. These needs can only be filled with "small volume" laser with smaller volume and higher integration.
Judging from the current market feedback, small -volume laser has been accepted by the market, and the shipments are happy, but there is still a way to go to the aforementioned production line precision processing scenario. The technician of thermal laser said: "The small volume laser is very high with the more precise and higher degree of automation, but at present, our laser volume is still large, although it has been reduced much compared to the past. The volume of the laser can be reduced by half, and the future application space will be wider. On the one hand, thermal stimulating laser is trying to make smaller volume of laser, and on the other hand, it is also trying higher power output. We look forward to that China Fiber The laser market can get out of the quagmire of the price war as soon as possible. I also hope that everyone can seize the new market opportunities. "
