Advantages of laser cutting machine in the shipping industry

Advantages of laser cutting machine in the shipping industry

There are four main types of ship hull plate parts, which are flame cutting, plasma cutting, cutting and laser cutting.
1.Equipment performance comparison
The cutting performance of the flame cutting machine can be carried out by the cutting machine. The plasma cutting machine is fast and the cutting machine has high efficiency, but it can only be limited to the machining of the linear side parts. But the cutting plate speed is relatively slow. It is due to the advantages of high precision, laser cutting machine in high sheet product construction, block construction process without allowance precision management, build merchant ships of welding groove line of demanding process: such as FCB puzzle, double wire submerged 4 arc automatic welding and other aspects, has irreplaceable advantages, the laser cutting machine is to change the smooth implementation of the method has laid an important foundation.

The comparison of the parameters of the laser cutting machine and the other two kinds of cutting equipment is listed:
Application of laser cutting machine in the actual production of shipping industry
Through comparison of the performance of laser cutting equipment and other equipment, the main advantages of the laser cutting equipment are cutting high precision and small thermal deformation. This feature has a broad application prospect in the practical production.
There is no allowance for advancing the process of building a new high tech ship
High precision requirements for ship hull zhuanpei high frame, zhuanpei gap must be controlled in the range of 1mm. In a bottom part EB02 for example, formerly in the plasma of floor plate material, in order to ensure the assembly gap, in the coal floor are set to mow the margin (as shown in the following picture), the allowance of the ribbed plates are is in the field assembly manual to mow, mow the quality parameter difference not neat inner slotted oxides are not clear and easy to, but also increase the workload of the assembly, assembly cycle of growth, resulting in the block construction period is prolonged. Using laser cutting machine to improve the accuracy of parts, in the relative to cancel the assembly margin, the structure of the assembly speed is significantly accelerated. The assembly quality of the whole block is improved obviously, and the precision of the construction is also improved at the same time. The fact proves that the more accurate parts are good for the main dimensions of the segmented.
Promote the change of thin plate cutting
Section thin-walled superstructure construction division is an important part of the whole high engineering hull construction, the thinnest thickness coaming of only 2mm; in the superstructure segment in the process of the construction, expect from the next parts manufacturing, block manufacturing, total group equipped with a series of processes are in the hands of the process, thin wall plate is very easy to lose stability deformation. So section thin-walled superstructure construction of each process are key control, and it is the introduction of laser cutting machine, promote the thin-walled material engineering change. To ensure the quality of the construction of the sub construction.
Before the introduction of laser cutting machine, the cutting of the 2-3mm cutting of the sheet is mainly through the manual line. Through Zhaping were leveling; artificial marking and shear cumulative error in 3mm, resulting in in wall imposition assembly of ultra poor gap, unable to realize the assembly gap in the range of 1 mm requirements, tend to have a lot of modification cutting phenomenon; and for 4 6mm steel plate, using ion cutting, because of the thin sheet metal, the cutting heat, steel plate edge straightness is not up to the requirements, after cutting Zhaping, still need the edge planing machine for edge processing, an increase of machining process.
To the Ministry of loading stage, there are a large number of wall due to the material error or scrap or rework, and in the sub wall assembly, the wall edge potential repair or assembly gap is endless, and the material is not used in the cutting machine before the material scrap rate is high. Introduction of laser cutting machine thick, it is using its high processing precision, small heat input, all thin wall are used laser cutting and blanking, step in place, eliminating the need for the lineation, Zhaping, planing process; to eliminate the problems caused by plate's loss, greatly improve the processing efficiency.
It is clear that the use of laser cutting machine for thin plate cutting is a process of change. Greatly improve the efficiency and quality of the thin wall segment processing.
In short, laser cutting machine as a new type of hull parts cutting equipment, compared with other conventional cutting equipment, with high machining accuracy, small thermal deformation, good stability, low loss rate, small environmental pollution and other advantages, in the shipbuilding industry has great potential for application. Currently in in section of high ship building without remainder, sheet cutting method change has good application, greatly improving the processing efficiency, eliminating the on-site repair cut phenomenon, reduce the labor and material waste. The advantage of laser cutting machine will be wider and deeper application in ship manufacturing.

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