Advantages:

Various advantages of OFC are as follows :

I. Generally Steels might be cut faster by OFC than by mechanical chip elimination processes.

II. Section shapes and thicknesses that are hard to produce by mechanical means might be severed economically by OFC.

II. Fundamental manual OFC equipment costs are low compared to machine tools.

IV. Manual OFC equipment is very portable and might be utilized in the field.

V. Cutting direction may be changed rapidly on a small radius throughout operation.

VI. Big plates can be cut quickly in place by moving the OFC torch instead of the plate.

VII. OFC is an economical technique of plate edge preparation for groove and bevel weld joint designs.