INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS
Engineering Machinery Industry
Engineering machinery is a general term for a series of construction machinery used in engineering construction projects. Engineering machinery is generally composed of power plant, transmission device, walking device, working device and control system. From the use of construction projects, these machinery are widely used in railway and road construction, airport construction, water conservancy projects, power supply laying, housing construction, tunnel & bridge construction, mining, port transportation, national defense and military engineering fields. Engineering machinery is an important part of world equipment industry.
Industry Pain Points:
Overcapacity —Overall production capacity increases, homogenization and low-end products have obvious overcapacity in the short term;
High cost — The rising prices of raw materials have caused high costs for businesses ;
Technical bottleneck — Some high-end products supporting hydraulic, transmission, electric control and other core components have shortcomings.
Advantages of Laser Equipment in the Engineering Machinery Industry:
Compared with the traditional arc welding, laser welding technology is a convenient, simple and reliable, adaptable and versatile precision welding method. In construction machinery, laser welding is used to improve welding strength. It has huge advantages and broad application prospects in the process of reducing welding deformation and welding correction, and improving the appearance structure design.
Automobile Manufacturing Industry
The automotive industry is a comprehensive enterprise, which is built on the basis of several related industries and related technologies. Automotive parts include floors, screws and other thousands of different parts, from blank processing to vehicle assembly need to use a variety of different processing technology. The production process of automobiles needs to be completed by several professional production plants. In order to achieve economical and efficient automobile production, these factories must organize production according to the principle of cooperation, and reasonable division of labor and cooperation.
Industry Pain Points:
R&D capability —low technical level, insufficient product R&D capability;
Processing technology — traditional processing technology has low production efficiency, rough process and low precision;
Export order — the export order is chaotic and vicious competition at low prices;
Competitive environment — The automobile manufacturing industry is becoming more and more competitive and constantly launching new products, which can not only meet the pursuit of high-grade, but also meet the needs of the masses. As a result, the quantification of its individual varieties is getting smaller and smaller.
Laser Machine in the Automotive Industry Application Range:
Automobile Frame
The use of laser cutting machine to cut the automobile frame has greatly shortened the preparation period of the automobile.
Car Door
Laser cutting machine cuts car door sheet metal will effectively improve production efficiency.
Exhaust system
Laser cutting machine can be used for cutting exhaust system parts in the automotive industry.
Steel structure Industry
Steel structure refers to the building structure form which is mainly composed of steel plate, section steel, steel pipe, cable steel and other steels, connected by welds, bolts or rivets. Compared with reinforced concrete structure, steel structure has the advantages of high strength, light weight, plastic toughness and good seismic performance. At the same time, the steel structure members are processed by mechanization, which has a high degree of industrialization and a short construction period.
Industry Pain Points:
Serious industry monopoly — the steel structure industry is highly competitive, the industry concentration is relatively dispersed, and the market share of China's top five listed companies is less than 7% in 2022 according to the output caliber statistics. Due to frequent fluctuations in steel prices in recent years, coupled with industrial policy adjustments and stricter industry supervision, most small and medium-sized steel structure enterprises in the competition is difficult to sustain, have withdrawn from the market, superimposed in recent years, such as the epidemic force majeure factors, the industry accelerated clearance, the market share of the head enterprise increased year by year;
Rising market prices — rising prices of manufacturing raw materials, large pressure on enterprises to receive orders, and low market vitality.
Laser Machine in the Steel Structure Industry Application Range:
Steel prices have also developed rapidly in recent years, many steel structure industry uses laser cutting machine to save a lot of raw materials, many steel structure enterprises have given up flame cutting to use laser cutting, laser cleaning and environmental protection, but also in line with the relevant policy direction of national environmental protection, laser cutting machine sheet generally with air, thick plate generally with oxygen, The flame cutting not only uses oxygen but also uses acetylene, so the cost is greatly reduced.
Building Light Steel
Structure
Light industrial plants, warehouses, exhibitions, supermarkets, low-rise residential buildings, etc.
Bridge steel structure
Bridge construction in municipal construction, highway and other large traffic projects.
Space Steel Structure
Mesh frame, mesh shell, truss and its combination, hybrid structure.
Equipment steel
structure
Coal power, water conservancy, Marine steel structure, etc.
Building heavy steel structure
Modern high-rise, commercial center, etc.
Tower Industry
The steel tower manufacturing industry is a branch of the metal structure manufacturing industry, and the steel tower manufacturing refers to the production activities of products in the fields of power generation, communication, transportation and building decoration with iron, steel and other metals as the main materials.
It mainly includes the following types of products: transmission line tower, microwave communication tower, TV tower decoration tower, wind power tower and electrified railway pillar.
As the tower products are mainly used in the construction of high-voltage and ultra-high-voltage transmission lines and the construction of microwave communication networks, the tower products mainly include two types of transmission towers and communication towers, of which the most important transmission towers account for about 90% of the tower output.
Industry Pain Points:
1.The production equipment falls behind and the degree of automation is low;
2.Low utilization rate of raw materials, large amount of waste. The cutting of the plate is only the first step in the tower manufacturing process and has a significant impact on the subsequent welding. At present, the conventional plate cutting process on the market is roughly divided into: flame cutting, plasma cutting and laser cutting. Flame cutting is a common way of steel plate roughing. The cost of cutting equipment is low, but the heat affected zone of flame cutting is much larger, the thermal deformation is relatively large, and the non-ferrous metals such as copper, aluminum and stainless steel cannot be cut, and the environmental pollution is more serious. Plasma cutting, wide cutting field, can cut all metal sheet, cutting speed, high efficiency, cutting accuracy is higher than flame cutting. However, the taper of the thick plate is large, the slit is wide, and the batch processing will cause a lot of material waste, and will produce harmful gases and a lot of smoke and dust, causing pollution.
Advantages of Laser Machine in Tower Industry:
China’s transmission towers generally use Angle steel towers (tower height of about 20-70 meters), or transmission towers (generally more than 100 meters) use combination Angle steel towers or steel towers. With the continuous upgrading of modern power grid, the transmission tower rod section has also evolved, especially with the construction of multi-loop projects and large-section projects in the same tower, the tower load is getting larger and larger, and the rod section has been developed from single Angle steel to double Angle steel, four-angle steel, lattice type, steel pipe and other profiles.
Compared with flame cutting and plasma cutting, laser cutting has more obvious advantages, which can combine highly concentrated energy and pressure, cut smaller material areas, make more parts through intensive cutting, and reduce material waste. Higher cutting accuracy, small heat affected zone, not easy to deform. The slit is smooth and beautiful, and no post-polishing is required. Laser cutting can achieve the complex process that the punching machine is difficult to complete.
New Energy Industry
The upstream industry of the new energy industry mainly includes manufacturers of new energy and renewable energy power generation equipment such as solar energy, photovoltaic energy, water energy and wind energy, as well as manufacturers of new energy and renewable energy components and components such as solar energy, photovoltaic energy, water energy and wind energy. The midstream of the new energy industry, as an important link in the whole industrial chain, mainly includes energy suppliers such as hydrogen energy, photovoltaic power generation, wind power and hydropower. The downstream industries of the new energy industry mainly include public and personal applications such as new energy vehicles, hydrogen refueling stations, charging piles and power transmission and transformation.
Industry Pain Points:
Technical bottleneck to be broken — According to the statistical data of the New Energy Industry Development Prospects and Investment Strategic Planning Analysis Report" released by the Prospective Industry Research Institute, it is expected that by 2040, the proportion of natural gas in China's main energy structure will rise from less than 6% to 12%, of which the increase in natural gas production will mainly come from shale gas in unconventional gas. China has sufficient reserves of resources, but it needs to be strengthened in the key engineering technology and organizational system;
High cost — The cost of exploitation and utilization of emerging energy is still high, and it will take time to achieve commercialization. Although the theoretical data of shale gas reserves in China is large, the geological conditions are relatively disadvantageous, which makes it difficult to exploit and the development cost is relatively high.
Laser Machine in the New Energy Industry Application Range:
Laser cutting is one of the main laser applications in the field of new energy vehicle manufacturing. Laser cutting technology includes a flat plate laser cutting and three-dimensional space laser cutting, covering various management aspects such as parts, car body, car door frame, car trunk, car roof cover manufacturing of Chinese automobile enterprises. The application of 3D laser cutting technology in the automobile manufacturing industry is mainly the design and manufacturing of automobile body, which is widely used in the development of new models, the production of deformation cars, the cutting samples of auto parts, the cutting holes and cutting edges of body covers.
The development of laser welding technology is the fastest growing track in the application economy of the new energy automobile industry. Laser welding technology is mainly used in automotive covering parts, power batteries, PACK modules and so on.
Medical Device Industry
In the post-epidemic era, the non-anti-epidemic medical device market has recovered rapidly. Coupled with the structural changes of the population and the improvement of health awareness, China’s medical device industry as a whole has entered a stage of rapid growth. From the perspective of the industrial chain, the upstream is dominated by various raw material suppliers and corresponding technology research and development enterprises. The midstream is dominated by manufacturing enterprises related to various medical equipment and consumables. The downstream is dominated by various medical institutions, scientific research institutions, third-party inspection centers and C-end users. The construction of the domestic medical device industry chain is relatively perfect, and the future will gradually penetrate into the more high-end market links.
Industry Pain Points:
Unstable production supply chain — supply chain substitutability is very low, production and certification conditions are very harsh, resulting in a very long supplier certification cycle;
High cost the shortage of upstream raw materials, the shortage of factory capacity, the increase of labor and other production costs.
Laser Machine in the Medical Device Industry Application Range:
Laser Welding
Usually in the use of reusable medical devices, laser welding can not only well optimize the difficulties encountered in these traditional processes, such as the stability of the point, the density of the weld, etc., the production process also has high flexibility, and can achieve the production requirements of the medical device industry in small batches and multiple batches.
Exhaust System
With reference to China’s medical machinery industry manufacturing standards & FDA regulations, disposable & reusable medical devices need to create UDI marks, which must be permanently marked. The use of laser marking can achieve passivation corrosion resistance, and the contrast is very high, laser marking technology can help realize the arc marking & other difficult processing technology.
Laser Cutting/Boring
When cutting medical devices with complex shapes (such as heart stents, heart stents, catheters, etc.), it is usually faced with difficulties in generating burrs, multi-axis linkage, process control, and so on, which affects the fine structure of the device. Laser technology can solve these problems and enable highly flexible precision cutting and punching processes.
