In today’s automobile manufacturing industry, the competition is becoming more and more fierce. With the continuous improvement of people’s living standards, cars are no longer luxury goods. Automobile manufacturers must continue to introduce new products, so as to meet the pursuit of high-end and meet the needs of popularization. Therefore, the quantification of each variety is becoming smaller and smaller, and the product life of each variety is becoming shorter and shorter, which requires the automobile manufacturers to continuously tap the potential, improve the manufacturing technology, and strive to reduce the production costs, including the trial manufacturing costs of new products. More than 10 years ago, European, American and Japanese companies gradually promoted the use of laser cutting machines and applied them to the production of automobile sheet metal.
As an industry with high concentration of high and new technologies, automobile manufacturing is facing very severe market challenges – consumers’ requirements are getting higher and higher, and personalized things are becoming more and more diverse. As an advanced productivity, laser has been widely used in more than 60% of automobile parts production and processing.
The intervention of laser cutting technology can not only reduce the cost from the artificial level, but also more importantly, it can meet the arrival of Industry 4.0 with standardized and standardized workflow. Laser technology is the basis of intelligent manufacturing in the automobile manufacturing industry, and is the prerequisite for realizing the combination of intelligent manufacturing and digital factory.
Laser cutting is to use high-energy laser beam to irradiate the surface of the workpiece to make the irradiated area partially melt, automobile or phase change, so as to achieve the purpose of cutting. The laser beam is focused by a special optical system with high energy density, and can burn and melt some materials with high hardness, such as hard metal, ceramics, diamond, etc., which can complete the tasks that are difficult to achieve by conventional mechanical processing. The development of laser technology has become a comprehensive science today. Laser processing and computer software and hardware technology are organically combined. The use of CAD and other related technologies can break through the traditional design and manufacturing mode, and can greatly improve the appearance of the automobile manufacturing industry. As a new technology, the application of laser cutting machine can be said to be unlimited. There are only places you can’t think of. There is no place that laser cutting machine can’t do.
Facing the broad market, the large-scale application of laser cutting machine technology will undoubtedly bring revolutionary impact to the automotive industry. For laser cutting machine manufacturers, it is also a rare opportunity, and it is bound to further develop the laser technology. At present, China’s laser cutting machine technology is still at the stage of development that has just been combined with the automobile industry. The large demand for automobiles in China means that the laser cutting machine has a broad application prospect in the automobile industry and a huge market potential. China’s laser cutting machine enterprises should seize this opportunity to realize a take-off of development.