Views: 53 Author: heyu Publish Time: 03-05-2021 Origin: Site
When Karl Benz produced the world's first three-wheeled car in 1886, it might be difficult for him to imagine the tremendous changes that would take place in the automobile industry more than a century later. Over the past 100 years, technological innovations in the automotive industry have emerged one after another, and the processing and manufacturing technology has been changing with each passing day, and innovation has continued. As a great invention of the twentieth century, the application of laser in automobile manufacturing has epoch-making significance. This advanced processing technology has penetrated into all aspects of automobile manufacturing, including welding, cutting, drilling, marking, heat treatment, and Forming, even to the fields of micro-machining of electronic systems.
There are many places where fiber laser cutting is used inside and outside the car, such as car doors, car brake pads, car wheels and many other places where laser cutting machines are used. There are also many precision parts and materials in automobiles. In order to improve the safety of automobiles, it is necessary to ensure the cutting accuracy. Fiber laser cutting machines have high cutting accuracy, high efficiency, no burrs, and one-time molding. The advantages of fiber laser cutting machines are perfect for sheet metal. The reason for cutting.
At present, laser cutting machines have been widely used in the auto parts manufacturing industry, and Honda Motor of Japan is one of them.
Honda Motor has developed a production system that can use lasers to cut body parts and steel plates, and has become a company that uses similar systems for mass production of automobiles.
Honda developed a high-power laser cutting machine that can be used in automobile manufacturing
The system is commercially promoted by Honda Engineering, the manufacturing technology R&D department of Honda, and large-scale production equipment R&D and the manufacturer Hitachi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. society.
The power of ordinary laser cutting machines on the market is not enough and it takes too much time to cut steel plates, so they are not suitable for automobile production. The devices developed by Honda and Hitachi that enable high-performance laser beams to move at high speeds and equipment that can provide tens of thousands of steel plates per day can meet the needs of automotive mass production.
Honda’s system has several benefits. It is reported that the traditional method of using metal molds to produce auto parts lacks flexibility, and once mass production starts, the design cannot be changed. For this reason, automakers usually reuse the same metal mold before design updates, but this time may last for several years. And Honda equipped with a new laser cutting machine system can flexibly change the part design, and only modify the system program settings. And because the need to develop and produce metal molds is eliminated, the cost is also reduced. Under normal circumstances, the development and production of metal molds that can cut relatively large parts (such as car doors and roofs) generally costs tens of millions of yen (10 million yen ≈ 572,000 yuan).
In addition, the system can also make low-volume automobile production models more profitable, so that Honda can produce more unique new models. Part of Honda's reputation comes from its ability to produce vehicles with previous designs. Both S660 and NXS are Honda's proud work.
Currently, the Honda plant in Yorii Town, Saitama Prefecture has installed the system for the production of Honda’s main hatchback models, the Fit and Vezel utility vehicles. Honda plans to extend the system to other factories, including factories in North America.
With the development of the laser industry and the needs of the automotive industry, there are more and more styles of sheet metal cutting, more and more requirements, and higher aesthetics. The car is not only a simple means of transportation, but also a major technology field progress.
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