Nowadays, the major production centers of worldwide home appliance mainly focus in North America, Asia and Western Europe. Asian market has big potential with low labor cost and high population density, so it gradually becomes the biggest production base. And China is also one of the biggest home appliance producing countries in the world. As we know, home appliance mainly consists of outer sheet metal and inner components.
With the home appliance becomes more and more diverse in categories and users requiring personalization, home appliance manufacturing businesses keep upgrading in both exterior design and the processing technique. Sheet metal is the major part of home appliance. The processing technique of sheet metal has changed from the traditional processing method to laser cutting.
Home appliance like washing machine, refrigerator and air conditioner, they experience rapid upgrading. And the sheet metals of these home appliance are different in shapes and sizes and many of them need to be customized. With great flexibility, laser cutting machine can suit those needs very perfectly.
Using laser cutting machine to process sheet metal in home appliance industry can not only save the mold fee, labor cost and production time but also improve the precision of the sheet metal, leaving the sheet metal no burr at all. More importantly, higher production efficiency means bigger opportunities to account for bigger market share.
In fact, in addition to laser cutting, home appliance industry also uses other kinds of laser techniques, such as laser marking, laser drilling, laser welding and so on.
For example, logo laser marking on the outer casing of the refrigerator, laser drilling on the metal components and so on.
With people’s living standard increases, the home appliance demand increases year by year. The market demand often comes with the upgrade of the production capacity. And laser cutting technique makes a great contribution to the production capacity upgrade.
Sheet metal laser cutting machine often uses fiber laser as the laser source and most of the power range is around 1KW - 3KW. To guarantee the cutting quality and efficiency, the fiber laser source needs to be under consistent temperature.
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