Automated synthetic diamond cutting comprehensively reduces production costs primarily by introducing precision equipment, improving processing efficiency, reducing reliance on manual labor, and minimizing material loss. This is specifically reflected in the following key aspects:

1.Lower the technical threshold and reduce reliance on highly paid skilled workers. Traditional diamond cutting relies heavily on the experience of technical workers and master craftsmen. Human factors have a large impact, so industry thresholds and labor costs are extremely high. Modern automated processes significantly increase mechanical involvement. By introducing precision instruments to replace human judgment, it greatly reduces reliance on master experience and the overall technical threshold for cutting. Eliminating this dependence on manual labor not only directly saves expensive labor costs but also makes it easier for cutting mills to achieve miniaturization and industrialized operations.

2. Optimize processing steps to comprehensively improve production efficiency and reduce material loss. Modern processes have achieved high levels of automation in the first three steps of diamond processing: design, division, and rounding, which inevitably leads to a significant reduction in production costs:

Design stage: It abandons traditional design and marking that relied on manual experience. Instead, it uses precision instruments for three-dimensional scanning and modeling, utilizing algorithms to calculate the optimal cutting solution, thereby minimizing the negative impact of human factors.

Division stage: Laser cutting technology is used to replace traditional sawing or cleaving. Traditional cleaving carries higher risks and sawing results in more loss. Laser cutting not only avoids risks and reduces rough stone loss but also greatly improves efficiency. For example, a rough stone of about 3 carats only takes 10 to 15 minutes to be automatically cut by a machine with very little manual intervention.

Rounding stage: It discards the traditional slow and inefficient method of rotating and grinding two diamonds against each other. Instead, it uses an automatic grinding machine with a rough grinding wheel, further reducing manual intervention and greatly improving processing speed.

Cutting and polishing stage: It innovatively introduces a brand new modern mechanical drilling jig (i.e., the "lapidary arm" or "cutting arm"). It not only realizes multi-purpose use for one arm but can also be precisely controlled by a computer to process 57 or 58 facets of a round brilliant cut with high precision.

3. Processing fees experience a cliff-like drop. The most direct manifestation of high automation is the massive reduction in the processing fee per carat. According to calculations, the manual cutting fee in India is currently about 300 to 400 RMB/carat, while China's domestic manual cutting fee is as high as 400 to 600 RMB/carat. In contrast, using automated cutting has a huge cost advantage: in small-scale automated cutting mills in Shenzhen, the processing fee can be as low as 150 RMB/carat. If the automated cutting mills are further moved to inland China, the cutting fee can even drop to an astonishing 60 RMB/carat.

In summary, by subverting traditional heavy physical and experience-based operations, and utilizing modern instruments and computer controls, automated cutting has achieved rapid efficiency improvements and reduced losses in all procedures, thereby giving the synthetic diamond industry a tremendous cost advantage.