Industry Trends

With the decline in the cost of high-power laser devices, an increasing number of universities, enterprises and scholars at home and abroad are conducting application research on laser cladding remanufacturing technology. The integration of "equipment, materials, processes, products and services" has made the laser cladding remanufacturing technology increasingly perfect.

"Automation, intelligence and foolproof operation" are the equipment development directions of laser cladding remanufacturing technology

With the development of automation, the combination of laser processing systems and computer numerical control technology can form highly efficient automated processing equipment, opening up broad prospects for high-quality, high-efficiency and low-cost processing and production. In the future, the liberation of the labor force and efficient production will provide a broad space for automation and intelligence. Automatic loading and unloading production lines for laser cladding and unmanned laser cladding production lines will greatly simplify the laser processing technology, making the operation and control of the laser cladding process tend to be "user-friendly".

2. Functional optimization and stable performance are the research directions of laser cladding remanufacturing materials

The development direction of laser cladding alloy material powder in the remanufacturing field, with the functional requirements of corrosion resistance and wear resistance and the quality requirements of high sphericity and high stability, will be the continuous optimization direction of materials, and ultimately break the foreign technological monopoly on high-end alloy powder.

3. Efficiency improvement and process standardization are the technological development directions of laser cladding remanufacturing

The workshop-style free development model has led to a rapid growth in the industrial scale of laser cladding, but it also faces the same problem as the remanufacturing industry, namely the lack of various standard systems. Currently, there are reports on industry and enterprise standards related to laser cladding, but the standardization of the entire industry is difficult to regulate. Establishing standards for laser cladding remanufacturing in various processes and fields will be a necessary step for the future development of the laser cladding remanufacturing industry. In addition, the various simple, convenient and standardized tooling created in the front-line laser cladding practice are also favorable factors for improving remanufacturing efficiency and quality assurance.

4. Attempting to develop new parts, new working conditions and new service models suitable for laser cladding is the application and development direction of laser cladding remanufacturing technology

The transformation and application of composite technologies will open up broader application fields for laser remanufacturing. For instance, on-site laser cladding remanufacturing of large components, the application of underwater laser cladding technology, and metal laser additive manufacturing are all new technological application fields of laser cladding remanufacturing. The application prospects for remanufacturing of key components in industries such as automobiles, power, aviation, metallurgy, petroleum, and navigation will be even broader. Spherical and highly stable quality requirements will be the direction for continuous optimization of materials, and eventually will break the foreign technological monopoly on high-end alloy powders.