With the advancement of the "Industry 4.0" and "Made in China 2025" strategies, China's manufacturing industry has begun to move toward a high-end, intelligent transformation. Due to the increasing demand for product quality in the market, higher demands are placed on the precision and efficiency of the processing technology. The traditional processing and manufacturing equipment has shown an unsatisfactory side, and the high-end green laser pointer processing equipment has received much attention. Under the circumstance of intelligent manufacturing, the laser industry has ushered in a major development opportunity.
For the problems faced in the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry in the context of “Made in China 2025”, we made a special trip to the Chuangxin Laser Headquarters in Shenzhen. Hu Lei, deputy general manager of Chuangxin Laser, personally received us and interpreted it from various angles such as industry market, product technology and Chuangxin laser's future planning and layout. The following is the complete content of this interview.
In recent years, the market gap of fiber optic green laser pointer has been continuously opened, and there is an increasing demand for heavy industrial cutting, welding, and some surface treatment processes, and it still maintains a high growth trend. In 2017 alone, global fiber laser sales The amount reached $2,039 million. According to UK analyst firm IDTechEx, global fiber laser system sales will reach $8.9 billion by 2028.
Compared with traditional lasers, fiber lasers have many advantages, such as more efficient photoelectric conversion efficiency, compact structure, low energy efficiency, and can be made smaller and more compact under the requirements of high power, and more energy-saving and environmentally friendly. The advantage makes it easier to adapt to different environments; the fiber green laser pointer has good beam quality and better processing effect; for the processing manufacturers, the fiber laser has a very advantageous feature, which is extremely strong. Stability, can effectively guarantee the development of processing operations, and also has an advantage in terms of service life.
In addition to the advantages mentioned above, fiber lasers have a promising core advantage in industrial manufacturing: flexible integration of industrial machinery. This feature makes it more closely integrated with automation and semi-automation, and is compatible with the current trend of intelligent development.
Compared with the laser field manufacturers represented by IPG, TRUMPF, coherence, and SPI, there are still some gaps in some technologies in China, and these gaps are mainly reflected in the upstream core devices. In recent years, through the technical research of relevant domestic scientific research institutions and enterprises, many breakthroughs have been made at some key points, and this gap has been reduced a lot.
Taking Chuangxin Laser as an example, Chuangxin Laser has continuously strengthened its investment in R&D, and has maintained close communication and cooperation with the above-mentioned scientific research institutions and enterprises for a long time, and continuously strengthened its core technical strength. As of the second quarter of 2018, Chuangxin Laser has authorized 208 domestic and foreign patents, and the number of patent grants has maintained a growth momentum. In terms of intellectual property rights and invention patents, it has won the “2015 Shenzhen Baoan District Intellectual Property Advantage Enterprise”, “Shenzhen Patent Award”, “Guangdong Patent Gold Award” and other district, city and provincial awards.