Trends—Fiber laser

At present, a variety of industries use fiber laser technology well.,especially in the metal processing industry. So far, more and more people advocate „flexible manufacturing“. The metal parts industry is transforming from mass production to flexible small batch and diversified production methods. Laser technology is able to adapt to a wide range of materials, shapes and sizes, especially for flexible processing quickly, and will play a central role in this transformation. At the same time, based on the high precision, high speed and high flexibility of fiber laser, the combination of automation and laser system is the development trend. Under the general trend of Industry 4.0, these combinations will become closer. Especially lately, automated cutting and welding products continue to show high-speed development. Also the application fields are more extensive.

For fiber laser processing industry, metal processing industry is one of the most important application markets. The competition in the Chinese sheet metal market has now gradually turned into competition for high-quality, high-tech products. In order to comply with the development trend of the international market, the transformation of processing technology is inevitable. Laser processing techniques and processes, including cutting, welding, marking, and cleaning, are increasingly being used in the processing of metal materials.

Reality—Fiber laser

In recent years, laser cutting has become an ideal solution for the sheet metal cutting industry. Due to its high efficiency, high energy density, non-contact processing and flexibility, and its advantages in precision, speed and efficiency. As a sophisticated machining method, laser cutting can process almost all materials, including two-dimensional or three-dimensional cutting of thin metal sheets. In the field of sheet metal cutting, from micron-sized ultra-thin plates to tens of millimeters of thick plates, efficient cutting is possible. It can be said that laser cutting has set off an important technological revolution in the sheet metal processing industry.

What is Mopa laser marking machine?

What is Mopa laser marking machine? As a sales person, for this question, I was often asked. So what is the Mopa laser on earth? I will give all the persons who read my blog a best answer.

Mopa principle

Mopa is a name of laser source type. The difference between Mopa and regular fiber laser marking machine is not too big. Because, Mopa is fiber laser in principle. But Mopa’s pulse is adjustable. But for regular fiber laser machine, the laser source’s pulse is fixed. However both of them are fiber laser, the only difference in principle is whether it adjust the pulse.

Thus, why people design a laser source that could adjust laser pulse? What is it used for?

Since people can adjust the laser pulse, then it achieves multi-color marking on metal materials.

Like the video below, We used Mopa to coloring mark stainless steel.

Mopa Functions

But as you can see, the speed of color marking is very slow. So what other advantage make Mopa still occupy the laser marking market?

At present, the aluminium oxide is a general materials for smart phone case. The Mopa laser is very good to do it. If use the regular fiber laser source to mark aluminium oxide. It won’t mark black on it. You will see it is the grey color if you see at the front. But if you see from two sides, it will turn to black. And you can feel burr on the material surface. But using Mopa laser, these questions will be gone.

And If you bought a Mopa marking machine. You just set the pulse be fixed. Then the machine will become a fiber laser marking machine. Then it will enhance the speed of marking. So the Mopa laser machine could become a regular laser marking machine. So that is why, price of Mopa will higher than fiber laser. Mopa laser machine has more functions.

In short, XT laser use the mopa laser source from JPT and Raycus in general. If you do interested in our machine.

You can just Email me: xintian124@xtlaser.com

https://www.xtlaser.cz/product-item/mopa-laser-marking-machine/