Laser processing technology has the advantages of high efficiency, high precision, not easy to be limited by materials and flexible processing, and is gradually replacing traditional processing and manufacturing methods, especially in the field of sheet metal cutting, laser cutting has occupied a high proportion.

In the 1970s, in response to customers' desire to have a non-contact processing method, AMADA began the research and development of laser equipment and successfully developed the first laser processing machine lC-644 for sheet metal processing. At that time, the laser equipment, the thickness of the cutting material is small, the cutting speed is slow, and it is completely unable to compare with the modern laser machine, but it was epoch-making significance at that time, and shocked the entire sheet metal processing industry.

Laser cutting technology has been developed for decades, from solid state lasers, CO2 lasers to fiber lasers, the technology is becoming more mature.

The traditional sheet metal processing process of "shear - punching - bending - welding" or "flame plasma cutting - bending - welding" has low efficiency and poor quality, and shows obvious inadaptability in the face of orders with multiple varieties, small batches, customization, high quality and short delivery time. Laser cutting process as a "cut-punch" alternative process, has the characteristics of flexibility and high flexibility, often used to manufacture complex shape or special-shaped workpiece and sample (single piece or minimum batch).

Although the laser cutting machine has absolute advantages compared with traditional CNC equipment in terms of cutting accuracy and medium and thick plate cutting, there are still limitations in the realization of some special processes in the sheet metal processing industry, such as the realization of shutters, shallow drawing, countersunk holes, flanging holes, reinforcing bars and imprinting process requirements. In order to solve this limitation, laser impact composite machine came into being.

The early manufacturing of punch-laser cutting composite machine are using CO₂ laser, due to the technical limitations and high cost of CO₂ laser itself, affecting the promotion and application of laser punching composite processing equipment, so the application of this composite machine is very little.

With the development of laser technology, fiber laser generators have gradually replaced CO₂ laser generators. CNC punching machine fiber laser cutting composite processing technology to overcome the shortcomings of the early punching machine CO₂ laser cutting composite processing, compared with the early equipment has obvious advantages, has been rapidly promoted and applied.