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　　Since the advent of laser cutting machine, it has been widely recognized by consumers. What are the incomparable advantages of traditional cutting methods of laser cutting machine?

　　First, let's look at the characteristics of laser cutting and wire cutting:

　　Laser cutting machine:

　　The latest mainstream laser cutting equipment is mainly fiber laser cutting machine and CO2 laser cutting machine.

　　At present, CO2 laser cutting machine is mainly used to cut thick plates, which can cut non-metallic materials, while optical fiber laser cutting machine is mainly used to cut metal materials.

　　The main characteristics of laser cutting are: fast cutting speed, good cutting quality and low processing cost.

　　Traditional wire cutting:

　　WEDM can only cut conductive materials, which limits its application range and requires cutting coolant in the cutting process. For example, leather is not suitable for use. It is not afraid of water and cutting fluid pollution, nor can it use thread cutting.

　　In addition, according to the type of wire used, the current wire cutting is divided into fast wire cutting and slow wire cutting. The wire is made of molybdenum wire and can be used for multiple cutting. Wires are used slowly and can only be used once.

　　Advantages of traditional WEDM: it can realize one-step blank cutting, but the cutting edge will be very rough.

　　After talking about the characteristics of laser cutting and traditional wire cutting, let's briefly compare their cutting principles and disadvantages:

　　Laser cutting principle: the high temperature generated by high energy density laser beam melts the gap of cutting material, so as to realize cutting. Therefore, the metal material to be cut is not easy to be too thick, otherwise the heat affected zone may be too large to be cut.

　　Laser cutting has a wide range of applications. It can cut most metals without being limited by shape.

　　Traditional wire cutting principle: molybdenum wire is used to cut metal wire and energized to produce high-temperature cutting material for cutting, which is usually used as a die. The heat affected zone is more uniform and smaller. Thick plates can be cut, but the cutting speed is slow, only conductive materials can be cut, and the construction surface is small.

　　The disadvantage is that there are consumables and the processing cost is higher than that of laser cutting.

　　To sum up, the two have their own advantages and can basically complement each other. However, with the development of industrialization, processing enterprises have higher and higher requirements for mass production, which means that the higher the work efficiency, the higher the metal cutting speed. High quality and low cost laser cutting technology is more suitable for modern production needs, and WEDM is gradually losing its market competitiveness.