Comprehensive Comparison of Laser Cutting Machine And Plasma Cutting Machine

Laser Cutting machines are divided into laser cutting machine and plasma cutting machine. Laser cutting machine has the fastest efficiency, the highest cutting accuracy, and the cutting thickness is generally small. Plasma cutting machine also has a fast cutting speed, and the cutting surface has a certain slope. Baokun CNC Equipment Co., Ltd. makes the following comparison on the cutting methods of these two cutting machines:

Laser cutting method:

Cutting quality: excellent inclination angle, small area affected by heat. Basically no slag can achieve good and excellent fine cutting effect under the narrowest curvature conditions

Production capacity: The cutting torch can be quickly disengaged, which improves production efficiency. The cutting speed is extremely fast when cutting metal materials with a thickness of less than 6mm. The thicker the metal, the slower the speed. The thicker the metal, the longer the perforation time. Generally, laser cutting is used in non-metallic metal cutting. Only high-precision laser cutting is used!

Operation cost: Due to the consumption of electricity and gas, high maintenance cost and relatively low cutting speed when cutting thicker materials, the cost of a single operation is high

Maintenance method: Professional technicians are required to complete complex maintenance work!

Plasma  cutting method:

 Production capacity: extremely fast speed and extremely fast perforation speed when cutting metal materials of various thicknesses

Operation cost: long service life of consumables, good production efficiency, excellent cutting quality, resulting in a lower cost per operation than other technologies

Maintenance method: Many components can usually be properly maintained by the in-plant maintenance team Flame cutting method:

Cutting quality: good inclination, large area affected by heat, large amount of slag, and rework is required Production capacity: slow cutting speed, preheating time will increase the number of perforations

Operation cost: low production efficiency and rework are required, resulting in a higher cost per operation than plasma Maintenance method: simple maintenance can usually be performed by the in-plant maintenance team