How to use laser cutting machine to process FPC to increase processing speed

In production, processing speed is an important indicator to measure the benefits of an enterprise, and response speed is an important weight for the survival of an enterprise. Especially in the field of electronics, the update speed is fast and consumers have high demand for electronic products. A popular product needs to be quickly launched in a short time to seize the market. Production speed is extremely important, and extremely high requirements are placed on the production of various components of electronic products. The first requirement is speed. Therefore, higher requirements are placed on the processing speed of FPC wiring boards, which are indispensable in electronic components, and production must be completed in a very short time while ensuring quality. So how to increase production speed? This requires efforts in the process flow.

The most effective method for FPC processing is die stamping, which can be quickly formed. However, it also has certain defects. Cutting causes stress damage, the mold opening cycle is long, and the cost is high. Especially for FPC processing manufacturers, there are thousands of FPC wiring boards, and each specification needs to be molded once, which is relatively uneconomical in terms of cost and cycle. Therefore, the FPC wiring board processing factory has found laser cutting as a new solution. This laser belongs to the cold light source ultraviolet laser cutting machine, which can effectively balance the relationship between processing speed, cost and quality.

However, with the continuous improvement of market demand, the processing speed requirements for FPC wiring boards are getting higher and higher. How to use laser cutting machine to process FPC to increase the processing speed puts forward higher technical requirements for laser cutting equipment. Through technical research and development, Laisai Laser has provided a variety of solutions to improve the processing speed of laser cutting FPC wiring boards.

1. Multi-head UV laser cutting machine:

Through the multi-head UV laser cutting machine, one system controls multiple sets of laser optical systems at the same time, and can process two FPC wiring boards at the same time, effectively improving the processing efficiency. But the disadvantage is that the equipment cost is higher.

2. Automatic UV laser cutting machine:

Through the way of fixture and mechanical arm discharge, it can be connected to the production line, solve the problem of labor cost, and save manual loading and unloading time. At the same time, combined with multi-head UV laser cutting machine and automatic loading and unloading function, it can solve the problem of processing efficiency, which is also the trend of FPC laser cutting market in the future.

3. Increase the power of FPC laser cutting machine:

We know that FPC laser cutting machine generally uses 10/12W power. In the early days, due to cost issues, some customers used 7W power to process FPC. However, with the decline in laser prices, more and more customers are starting to use 15W/18W FPC laser cutting machines, which can improve processing efficiency to a certain extent. But the greater the UV power used by the FPC laser cutting machine, the more expensive it is, and the higher the added cost.

Another way to increase the power is to use a high-power laser of more than 50W to process the FPC wiring board, which can double the efficiency of the original 10W UV laser cutting machine. However, the processing effect is not as good as the UV laser cutting machine, and customers need to balance whether the requirements of processing quality and speed can be met.

The future trend is that the laser cutting machine FPC wiring board has a fast speed and a high degree of equipment automation. In the future, the requirements for the quality of FPC wiring boards will become higher and higher, and the requirements for laser equipment will also become higher and higher. In order to improve the processing effects of picosecond UV lasers, ultrashort pulse lasers are needed to improve the processing effects. However, judging from the current market share, the cost of ultrashort pulse laser equipment is relatively high, and the efforts of colleagues in the laser industry are still needed.