The Category of CNC Strip Plate Cutting machine and How to Select

A. Topics of this Blog on Flame and Plasma CNC Plate Cutting Machine:

In this blog, as professional manufacturer on CNC Strip Plate Cutting Machine, we will discuss on the equipment as below:

1) The Usage and Wide Application of CNC Flame Plasma Plate Cutting Machine;

2) Classification on flame and plasma CNC Plate Cutting Machine and its related Application Field;

3) Brief Introduction on CNC Flame Cutting Machine;

4) Brief Introduction on CNC Plasma Cutting Machine;

5) Brief Introduction on Flame and Plasma CNC Strip Plate Cutting Machine, Strip CNC Plate Cutting Machine, and Triple CNC Plate Cutting Machine.

B. The Usage and Wide Application of CNC Flame Plasma Plate Cutting Machine:

1. Vital Importance: CNC-CG series CNC Strip Plate Cutting Machine is the basic and indispensable equipment in modern production industry, across all manufacturing fields, facilities and plant where involve using of sheet metal plates as raw material for manufacturing process;

2. Function of Flame and Plasma CNC Plate Cutting Machine:

1) Delivery: By the application of CNC Flame Plasma Plate Cutting Machine, sheet metal plates of various materials: Carbon steel, stainless steel, Al, Brass… can be cut into designed shape and size in batch;

2) The thermal cutting quality can be guaranteed with consistent high precision with high productivity;

3) Role: This is the precondition on all the process technology of diversified finished products;

4) Significance: In this sense, introduction of flame and plasma CNC Plate Cutting Machine brings along revolutionary change to modern manufacturing industries.

C. Classification on Flame and Plasma CNC Plate Cutting Machine and Its Related Application Field:

Major Division on CNC Plate Cutting Machine:

Depending on thermal cutting technology applied, the CNC Plate Cutting Machine can be divided into three broad categories of:

 1) CNC Flame Cutting Machine: Using Oxygen fuel and Acetylene/ Propane 

2) CNC Plasma Cutting Machine;

3) Laser CNC Plate Cutting Machine;

1. Application of Technical Chacteristics of CNC Flame Cutting Machine: (Fig.1)

1) Importance: CNC Flame Cutting Machine is the earliest product of CNC Strip Plate Cutting Machine, and the most cost effective equipment among the three major types of CNC Plate Cutting Machine;

2) Suitable workpieces of CNC Flame Cutting Machine:

a) Flame CNC Plate Cutting Machine is the most applicable for cutting on carbon steel, especially with large thickness;

b) For standard specification of CNC Flame Cutting Machine, the cutting thickness can be up to 100mm; 

c) The special models of CNC Flame Cutting Machine can cut the maximum thickness of carbon steel plate with 200mm thick;

2. Usage and Technical Features of CNC Plasma Cutting Machine: (Fig.2)

1) Label: CNC Plasma Cutting Machine is the intermediate product in product family of CNC Strip Plate Cutting Machine, in terms of developing history/ manufacturing cost, and fineness of cutting kerf;

2) Mechanical Frame of CNC Plasma Cutting Machine:

a) Motrized gantry moving: Plasma CNC Plate Cutting Machine has the same equipment frame as CNC Flame Cutting Machine;

b) The difference is, CNC Plasma Cutting Machine adopts plasma power supply as its cutting energy source, which determines cutting capacity of the CNC Plate Cutting Machine based on its model, and hence output cutting current and voltage;

3. Application and Technical Specialty of Laser CNC Plate Cutting Machine:

Laser CNC Plate Cutting Machine is the latest developed type of CNC Plate Cutting Machine. It has the highest cutting speed, the finest cutting kerf, and the highest machine quotation.

D. Brief Introduction on CNC Flame Cutting Machine:

1. Working Principle of CNC Flame Cutting Machine: (Fig.3)

1) Timeline: CNC Flame Cutting Machine is the earliest developed type of CNC Plate Cutting Machine;

2) Capability: Utilizing the combustion of iron in Oxygen, the carbon steel metal plate can be cut into expected shape and dimension; 

3) Thermal cutting gas panel in CNC Flame Cutting Machine: (Fig.4)

4) Applicable Material of Sheet Metal: The most applicable material for such way of thermal cutting is carbon steel, which is the most widely selected raw material in manufacturing industry. This is also the reason why CNC Flame Cutting Machine got such extensive application with the longest history;

2. Huge Advantages of Flame CNC Plate Cutting Machine:

1) Cutting large thickness of plate: CNC Flame Cutting Machine has strong capability on cutting big thickness, especially in the applicating field of cutting metal plates thicker than 45mm, flame CNC Plate Cutting Machine has incomparable superiority: Currently CNC Flame Cutting Machine is only equipment capable of cutting carbon steel plate, with thickness higher than 50mm;

2) Cost Effective: The lowest cost in terms of equipment purchase and running cost: Compared with CNC Plasma Cutting Machine and Laser CNC Plate Cutting Machine, CNC Flame Cutting Machine has the bottom equipment quotation and variable cost in its daily operation. This is also the other reason why flame CNC Plate Cutting Machine is so widely welcomed over the past several decades;

3. The Down Side of Flame CNC Plate Cutting Machine:

No any equipment is flawless. This is also true with the CNC Flame Cutting Machine:

1) Cutting slag: Compared with CNC Plasma Cutting Machine and Laser CNC Plate Cutting Machine, cutting kerf delivered from CNC Flame Cutting Machine is rough, which sometimes need to be trimmed off, when there exist special requirement on fineness of cutting kerf to be delivered from the CNC Flame Cutting Machine;

2) Relative lower cutting speed: Compared with CNC Plasma Cutting Machine, cutting speed of CNC Flame Cutting Machine is slower: ≦1000mm/ min. in general.

E. Brief Introduction on CNC Plasma Cutting Machine:

1. Working Principle of Plasma CNC Plate Cutting Machine:  (Fig.5)

1) How to cut:  By means of plasma arc generated under high electric field and high temperature, the sheet metal plate is locally fused and cut: This is working way of CNC Plasma Cutting Machine;

2) Mechanical frame: CNC Plasma Cutting Machine shares the same structure and size of mechanical frame as CNC Flame Cutting Machine. It uses plug in different models of plasma power supply, based on required cutting capacity of the plasma CNC Plate Cutting Machine demanded from customer; 

3) Plasma power supply applied in CNC Plasma Cutting Machine: (Fig.6)

4) Wider scope of sheet metal materials is available for being cutting in CNC Plasma Cutting Machine, than that of flame CNC Plate Cutting Machine, especially non-ferrous: Stainless Steel/ Al/ Zinc/ Brass, etc.;

5) The Max. thickness applicable for being cutting in the CNC Plasma Cutting Machine is 45mm;

2. The Advantages of CNC Plasma Cutting Machine:

1) More gloss and intact cutting kerf: Compared with CNC Flame Cutting Machine, the cutting kerf from CNC Plasma Cutting Machine is finer, and with much less heat deformation;

2) Productivity (Cutting speed) of CNC Plasma Cutting Machine is higher than CNC Flame Cutting Machine: Cutting speed can be up to 6000mm/min.;

3. The Constraints of CNC Plasma Cutting Machine:

1) More complicated and higher cost of daily operation: Daily running of plasma CNC Plate Cutting Machine is relative complicated and in higher cost: It involves selecting on proper model of series of consumables: From electrode, to nozzle, to cutting sleeve… This entails fairly larger budget on variable running cost of CNC Plasma Cutting Machine;

2) Environment challenge: Cutting process of CNC Plasma Cutting Machine usually generates fairly amount of fume/ arc light and noise, which may do harm on operator health. For this reason, operator should put on proper PPE when working on the plasma CNC Plate Cutting Machine.

F. Brief Introduction on Flame and Plasma CNC Strip Plate Cutting Machine, Strip CNC Plate Cutting Machine, and Triple CNC Plate Cutting Machine:

Niche Models: Besides the above introduced CNC Flame Cutting Machine and CNC Plasma Cutting Machine, there are some types of branch product of CNC Strip Plate Cutting Machine:

1. CNC Flame Plasma Plate Cutting Machine:  (Fig.7)

1) Formation: This is combination of CNC Flame Cutting Machine and CNC Plasma Cutting Machine into one equipment, so that customer can utilize applicable advantages of both types of CNC Plate Cutting Machine;

2) Application: In practical application, CNC Flame Plasma Plate Cutting Machine has wider use than single equipped CNC Flame Cutting Machine and CNC Plasma Cutting Machine, thanks to its integrated and flexible capabilities;

2. Strip CNC Plate Cutting Machine:  (Fig.8)

1) Origin: Strip CNC Plate Cutting Machine is branch product of CNC Flame Cutting Machine;

2) Usage: Shown in the above photo, utilizing the same type of Oxygen fuel flame cutting, Strip CNC Plate Cutting Machine cuts out carbon steel plate into strip plate;

3) Application: One of the major applications of Strip CNC Plate Cutting Machine is steel structure construction H Beam Production Line;

3. Triple CNC Plate Cutting Machine:  (Fig.9)

1) Task: Triple CNC Plate Cutting Machine is used for cutting our beveling on edges of carbon steel plate;

2) Related Equipment: In this respect, Triple CNC Plate Cutting Machine has similar purpose as Edge Milling Machine, but the 2 types of machine work in different working style, and delivers different fineness of cutting kerf.

G. Summary on CNC Strip Plate Cutting Machine:

1. As professional manufacturer on various types and models of CNC Plate Cutting Machine with over 20s years of rich experience, Wuxi JACK has capability on delivering various CNC Strip Plate Cutting Machine of top grade for customers across industry;

2. If you are interested, please pay a visit to product family of CNC Flame Plasma Plate Cutting Machine.