In our lives, we are inseparable from kitchens and bathrooms. Modern kitchens and bathrooms include ceilings, kitchen and bathroom furniture, integrated cabinets, bathroom cabinets, smart appliances, bathroom heaters, ventilation fans, lighting systems, integrated stoves, and other kitchen and bathroom-related supplies. The traditional welding method in the kitchen and bathroom appliance industry is artificial argon arc welding. This welding method has many shortcomings, such as difficulty in recruiting workers, difficulty in manual management, high labor cost, low yield rate, low safety, low aesthetics, Low degree of automation, and so on, laser welding can effectively solve these problems.
Disadvantages of manual welding in the kitchen and bathroom appliance industry
1. Difficulty in recruiting workers: Currently, most of the kitchen and bathroom home appliance industry is dominated by manual welding. Manual welding is high-intensity work with a poor working environment and little contact with the outside world. The labor force in the market is gradually shifting towards the 80s and 90s. Most of the new generation of working people are unwilling to engage in such high-intensity work.
2. Difficulty in manual management: The new batch of working people has a strong sense of autonomy; when there are disputes with the factory, resignation and job-hopping are more common.
3. High labor costs: The wages of mature welders in the kitchen and bathroom appliance industry are more than 10,000 yuan. There are many welders in every mature factory. If things go on like this, labor costs will be a huge expense for the company.
4. Low welding efficiency: The number of welders in the factory is limited, and each welder can weld a limited number of products per day. This results in a limited number of products produced by the factory every day. If things go on like this, it will lead to low efficiency and the inability to keep up with production capacity.
5. Low yield rate: A manual welding method is used, which requires extremely high skills of welders, and there are many links. The product may be unqualified if the welder’s skills cannot keep up with a certain link.
6. Low safety: Manual welding is mainly done manually, and high heat will be generated during welding. Improper operation will cause harm to the operator's arms and eyes.
7. Low aesthetics: Manual welding is mainly performed manually by welders. Different welders have different welding techniques, resulting in differences in the welded products. Some welders are skilled and the welded products will be wonderful, while some welders are more skilled. If it is rough, the welded product may have many burrs and pits, which will affect the overall appearance of the product.
8. Low degree of automation: The kitchen and bathroom appliance industry is dominated by manual welding, and the behavior of personnel is uncontrollable, resulting in the production cycle of each product not being completely controllable. Shallow degree of automation
2. Advantages of using handheld laser welding in the kitchen and bathroom appliance industry
1. Reduce the overall cost: The initial purchase cost of a handheld laser welding machine is relatively high. The service life of a handheld laser welding machine is more than 10 years. Some companies have recovered the cost within half a year of purchasing the laser welding machine. It has been in a completely profitable stage for more than 9 years. Even if the laser welding machine will be damaged during use and will incur maintenance costs, this cost can be expected.
2. Solve the problem of difficult personnel management: the handheld laser welding machine operates according to the program pre-designed by engineers, and there is no problem of difficult personnel management. If the program fails, engineers can just update it.
3. Solve the problem of difficulty in recruiting workers: the handheld laser welding machine only requires a small number of machine operators, saving a large number of manual operators.
4. Solve the safety problem: The handheld laser welding machine uses machine welding and does not require manual welding, which improves personnel safety.
5. Improved product yield rate: The handheld laser welding machine operates according to the pre-tested power and speed, which greatly improves the product yield rate and is not affected by the welder's operating skills.
6. Solve the problem of aesthetics: the handheld laser welding machine works completely according to the preset program, and the welded products have high aesthetics and high consistency.
7. Improved product production efficiency: The handheld laser welding machine works according to preset procedures and is not affected by external factors such as operators. Under certain conditions, night work is no problem at all.
8. Improved automation: The handheld laser welder works according to preset procedures, greatly improving the degree of automation.
The emergence of handheld laser welding machines just makes up for the shortcomings of traditional welding. Laser has further developed based on laser welding. The handheld laser welding machine adopts an integrated structure and has a built-in integrated control system, laser system, cooling system, and other mechanisms; a handheld welding gun is used to replace the previously fixed optical path, without setting up equipment to deploy the welding station, which takes up little space and can realize outdoor welding; the handheld welding head is flexible and convenient, and according to market demand, a variety of suitable welding nozzles have been developed to support spot welding, stack welding, fillet welding and other welding methods. Suitable for rapid welding of carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum alloy, titanium alloy, galvanized sheet, galvanized sheet, brass, copper, and other metals.