Stop guessing. Use our free, data-driven calculator to see your exact savings, payback period, and 5-year profit potential from switching to laser welding.
A repair counter, a retail chain and a production floor are not measuring the same thing, so the payback question is not the same question. Find the description closest to your operation before you read the result.
What outsourcing costs you today, and how quickly bringing that work back in-house covers the machine. Reduced outsourcing and retained repair revenue are the two levers.
Whether a standardised repair capability across branches lifts after-sales revenue — the calculation runs per location, not once for the group.
Output against rework and scrap. Here the return shows up as fewer pieces written off and less labour spent redoing them, rather than as outsourcing saved.
The calculator does not ask you to estimate anything about the machine. Every input is a number from your own books, which is the only reason the output means anything.
Go to the calculatorA payback figure is only as honest as the assumptions under it. These are ours, stated plainly so you can decide whether they hold for your shop.
Knowing the edges of a calculation is worth as much as the number itself.
These are left out because they vary too much between shops to guess at. Ask and they will be quoted against your configuration rather than estimated here.
Enter your shop's numbers below. We'll calculate your monthly savings, break-even point, and 5-year return instantly.
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The calculator returns a number. This is the shape that number describes — worth reading before you decide what the number means.
Beyond the numbers, a laser welder transforms how your shop operates.
Cut material waste and outsourcing fees by welding in-house at a fraction of the cost.
Complete repairs in minutes instead of days, boosting customer satisfaction and repeat business.
Weld near gemstones and delicate settings with the energy placed at the joint instead of spreading through the piece.
Offer new services like prong retipping, custom fabrication, and same-day repairs.
Achieve professional-grade joints that hold up better than traditional torch soldering.
How quickly it pays back is set by your own figures — how many repairs you currently send out, what that outsourcing costs you, and what you charge for the same work. Run those through the calculator above rather than a headline number.
Every outsourced repair starts here. Packing, insuring and tracking a customer's ring is labour that never appears on a trade-bench invoice, which is why it rarely gets counted when the two routes are compared.
Input your machine cost, repair volume, and current expenses in the calculator above.
Our formulas compare your current costs against projected laser welding costs and time savings.
See your monthly savings, payback period, and 5-year profit projection instantly.
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"It pays for itself" is not one effect but four, and which of them apply depends on whether you run a repair counter or a production floor.
Every job that stops leaving the building stops carrying a trade-bench invoice with it.
The margin on that repair stays with you rather than being split with whoever did the work.
Fewer pieces going back through the process, and less labour spent putting them right.
Castings with porosity or cracks repaired rather than written off and started again.
The calculator above models the first two. If rework and scrap are your bigger numbers, say so when you send your figures — those are quoted against your own reject rate rather than assumed.
Conductivity, reflectivity and melting behaviour differ between precious metals, so each needs its own parameter set — and that shows up as different time per job, which is what a payback calculation is really counting.
Palladium, titanium and stainless steel are handled too, each with its own parameter set. There is no single setting correct across all of them, so a mixed-metal shop should read its payback as a range rather than a point.
The whole calculation rests on one assumption: that the work you currently send out can be done on your own bench. That is worth testing rather than assuming.
Send an actual repair — one you would normally hand to a trade bench — and see the joint before any of these numbers matter. The test weld is free, the piece comes back, and nothing is attached to it.
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The result tells you what the work is worth. It does not tell you which configuration does that work — those are chosen from workload and precision demand rather than from a budget line, and two shops with the same payback can need different machines.
So the next step is not a price list. Take the volume you just entered and set it against what each tier is built to carry.
Compare by workload What drives the costEverything you need to know about calculating ROI for jewelry laser welders.
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