Laser cutting boasts high flexibility, fast cutting speed, high production efficiency, and short product production cycles, earning it a wide market for customers. Laser cutting eliminates cutting force and processing deformation; it also features no tool wear, good material adaptability, and the ability to precisely and quickly form and cut both simple and complex parts with a single pass. Its narrow cutting seam, excellent cutting quality, high automation level, simple operation, low labor intensity, and absence of pollution make it a practical choice. It enables automatic cutting layout and nesting, improving material utilization, reducing production costs, and yielding good economic benefits. This technology has a long effective lifespan, and currently, laser cutting is widely adopted for plates thicker than 2mm abroad. Many foreign experts unanimously believe that the next 30-40 years will be the golden age for the development of laser processing technology (which is the direction for sheet metal processing).

Generally speaking, it is recommended to use laser cutting for carbon steel plates within 20mm, stainless steel plates within 10mm, as well as non-metallic materials such as acrylic and wood boards.

There are many factors to consider when selecting a laser cutting machine. Besides the current maximum size of the workpiece being processed, material, maximum thickness to be cut, and the size of the raw material sheet, it is also important to consider future development directions. For example, the maximum size of the workpiece that needs to be processed after the technical modification of the product, which material sheet provided by the steel market is the most material-efficient for the product, and the loading and unloading time, etc.