A Guide to Purchasing an Industrial Laser Cleaning Machine

When choosing industrial laser equipment, one should consider power adaptability, repeatability, wavelength matching, spot size adjustment, and after-sales service. Different materials and applications require different parameters. One must also pay attention to details such as human-machine interaction. Only then can one find a production tool that saves money and is efficient.

How to choose the right industrial laser equipment.

Recently a lot of friends have been asking me why the prices of laser equipment seem to differ by tens of thousands of dollars when they all look the same.In fact, just as when you buy a car you need to look at the engine and the transmission, when choosing a laser system you need to pay attention to these hard indicators. Today we'll take a closer look at them.

Five key indicators.

More power is not always better.

He recalls one client who insisted on the most powerful unit. When he got home and used it to clean off a thin layer of paint, it burned through the underlying material.For removing rust from ordinary metals, 200-500 watts is enough, but for cleaning precision molds it has to be reduced to 100 watts or less.It's like hot pot," he says. "You cook the fatty beef quickly over high heat, but you simmer the brains slowly over low heat.

Precision determines the quality of the product.

Last week there was a jeweler who had his equipment calibrated to an accuracy of ± 0.05 mm, but the letters he carved out were all double imaged.It is recommended that machines with a precision of ± 0.02 mm be selected, especially when doing overlay printing.

Matching the wavelength to the material's characteristics.

The 1064 nm wavelength is ideal for metal, but if you want to process plastic or ceramics, you can switch to a 532 nm or 355 nm wavelength and see immediate results.It's like a UV banknote detector, which only reveals hidden marks when the right wavelength is used.

The size of the light spot affects the efficiency of the work.

For cleaning a large flat surface, the laser can be adjusted to a spot size of 50 mm, enabling the completion of work that once took a whole day in just two hours.But when cleaning precision gears, the spot size must be changed to 0.1 millimeters to get into the spaces between the teeth.Don't forget to ask the manufacturer if the microscope can be quickly switched to a different magnification.

The response time for after-sales service must be written into the contract.

Last year, on November 11, a supplier for a car parts factory had a machine malfunction at night, and the supplier didn't arrive until the next afternoon, losing NT $ 200,000 in orders.I suggest that you make sure that the contract clearly stipulates a four-hour response time, and that the engineer's phone number be on record.

These are points that are often overlooked.

After the hard parameters have been tested, the equipment's human-machine interface must also be tested.The control panels on some of the machines were more complex than those on a microwave oven, so even the most experienced operators had to refer to the instructions.The new touch screen models have controls and gestures that are very similar to a smart phone, and a novice can get the hang of it in half an hour.