What is the Advantages and Disadvantages of Textile Laser Cutting?

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Textile Laser Cutting

Cutting textile into pieces is one of the crucial stages in the process of soft material production. It’s only after the cutting of the materials that they can be sewed or heat pressed into desired shapes and sizes. One of the very popular methods of getting it done is the laser cutting process. With proper use of good quality laser parts, laser cutting process can be very effective and low cost.

At the same time, it does have a few downsides as well. So let’s explore those great qualities and disadvantages more closely.

What Are the advantages of Laser Cutting?

The reason why clients prefer laser cutting more and more lies with the long list of upsides it offers. The advantages of laser cutting are flexibility, precision, repeatability, speed, cost-effectiveness, great quality, contactless cutting, material saving, versatility and automation possibilities.

Flexibility

Laser cutting offers freedom for the design and the quantities of product. Indeed, you can choose anything! For the design, once you have your software and respect the material design guidelines, you can do anything. There is almost no constraint while using this manufacturing technique. And no matter if you want to customize one piece or massive thousands of pieces, you can all use this laser technology to have same cutting cost and no extra model needed.

Precision and Material Saving

The highly accurate and precise nature of cutting is one of the greatest benefits that lasers have brought. It allows for highly accurate cuts that leave a clean cut and a smooth finish. This vastly reduces the amount of material wastage that has been seen in the past.

Reduced Finishing Requirements

Because laser cutters produce highly precise cuts, they will lead to fewer necessary finishing requirements. Edges produced by a laser cutters are smooth and free from burrs. The beams are also tightly focused, meaning there will not be internal flaws from heat exposure. Because laser cutters will produce high-quality, precise cuts, quality checks will take less time.

Quality

As laser spot size is very small and the repeatable precision is very high, each cutted pieces’ size and shape are same and it makes the next sewing or pressing process much easier and the final product very high quality.

Contactless Cutting

This means that the laser beam used doesn’t physically touch the material that it is working with, instead causing the melting and cutting process through heat. This means that damage to the material is minimized and the shape is exactly as the original designed.

Labor Saving

Due to the easy operation of the laser cutting machine, the operator only need to take care of the cutted patterns pick-up job. Generally one worker can take care 1-3 cutting machines due to different product. It will reduce a lot of pressure of finding experienced worker and can save you a lot of cost.

What Are the Disadvantages of Laser Cutting?

And because not everything can be good, here are what we considered disadvantages:

Thicker materials are more difficult to cut or require very low speeds.

Multi layer material cutting mode is not suggested due to the contaminated cutting edge.

The laser beam is powerful and can cause some burns if it accidentally comes in contact with human workers.

Some composite material with glue inside or PU or authentic leather will have some yellow edge due to heat cutting.

While you can find other cutting methods which are inexpensive and being preferred since a long time, you cannot ignore the plus points that laser cutting has to offer. The quality of cut that laser cutting provides can hardly be achieved by other methods available for carrying the process.

Should you have any interest, just feel free to let us know.

KASU Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.