
Fiber laser cutting machines are primarily used in the home appliance manufacturing industry for cutting and blanking sheet metal for exterior decoration and thin steel plate components for internal parts of complete electrical appliances. With the widespread adoption of KAFE CNC laser processing equipment by many home appliance manufacturers, the overall appearance quality of the machines has been effectively improved, overall production costs reduced, and the workload of frontline workers lessened. This has comprehensively revolutionized traditional sheet metal processing techniques, bringing considerable production benefits to home appliance factories.
Laser cutting boasts core advantages such as high processing precision, low surface roughness, high sheet metal utilization, and high production speed. In the field of precision thin sheet metal processing, it possesses irreplaceable competitiveness compared to traditional shearing and punching processes. Lasers achieve non-contact, high-speed, and high-precision cutting using a high-density beam. Home appliance sheet metal parts are diverse in style and have many irregular shapes; traditional processes require a large number of tooling molds, severely restricting workshop processing efficiency.
Metal sheet metal components account for over 30% of complete home appliances. Traditional blanking, corner cutting, hole drilling, and edge trimming processes are outdated and prone to dimensional deviations and surface scratches, directly lowering finished product quality and increasing material and labor costs.
Traditional stamping processes require numerous custom-made molds. Home appliance parts have a wide variety of opening specifications, with a high proportion of non-standard, small-batch single-item orders. Mold development involves significant investment and lengthy production cycles, making it difficult to adapt to the flexible production needs of multiple product categories.
Using a handheld jigsaw for opening holes results in rough cut surfaces, difficulty in controlling dimensional accuracy, high labor intensity for workers, loud equipment noise, frequent saw blade wear, and overall low production efficiency.
KAFE CNC fiber laser cutting machines specialize in processing thin metal sheets for the home appliance industry. They can complete the entire cutting process for appliance exterior sheet metal, electrical control cabinets, and electrical component mounting plates. The metal casings and internal frames of everyday appliances such as refrigerators, air conditioners, and washing machines can all be formed and processed in a single operation using this equipment.