Plate furniture is a furniture manufacturing field in the application of less equipment types, technology is relatively simple a branch, plate furniture has a more modular design, technology is easier to standardize, production is easier to the characteristics of the batch, also because of this, the plate furniture enterprises have become the first batch of domestic enterprises to carry out customization of the furniture attempts.

The production line is the ultimate way to achieve the goal of customization, the degree of flexibility of the production line determines the scope of customization, the choice of equipment type and the layout of the workshop is the key point of production line planning.

This paper summarizes and discusses the equipment and characteristics of different processes of plate-type customized furniture under the background of Industry 4.0 through practical research, focuses on analyzing the elements related to equipment and production line layout, and proposes three typical workshop layouts for different situations.

 

01 Typical equipment for different processes of customized furniture

(1) Cutting process

Saw equipment is the most commonly used cutting equipment for panel furniture. According to whether it is equipped with information control system, cutting saw can be divided into electronic saw and manual table saw. Electronic saw processing using matching fixtures to clamp the board, through the movement of the tool to complete the sawing route.

Electronic saw feeding mode has front-end feeding and back-end feeding, front-end feeding requires manual feeding, back-end feeding electronic saws can be with intelligent storage system to complete the automatic feeding.

Single-arm CNC machining centers (CNC) is another commonly used equipment, its spindle and the plate plane perpendicular to the automatic tool change to achieve a variety of edge shapes, but also in the opening of the material at the same time to complete the slotting, cutting corners, drilling holes and other work.

Saw equipment to meet the route of the knife, "a knife cut to the end", and CNC machining centers do not need, so the CNC machining center is currently opening flexibility and plate utilization of a high class of equipment.

 

(2) Sealing process

Edge sealing is the most widely used man-made board edge processing method, but also the key to the quality of panel furniture.

According to the processing range, edge sealing equipment can be divided into three kinds of straight line edge sealing machine, curve edge sealing machine, straight curve edge sealing machine, single-side straight line edge sealing machine is the basis of all edge sealing equipment, it is necessary to manually align the boards when feeding, tightly attached to the processing surface of the equipment, and can be used to conveyor belt transportation back to the feeding end to process the second edge after processing one side.

Continuous edge banding machine consists of a number of single-sided straight edge banding machine combination, the use of fixtures, gear and other components to ensure that the processing edge and the benchmark edge of the plate relative relationship, after loading without manual intervention can be completed without the processing of a number of edges.

Curve edge banding machine and straight edge banding machine are mostly manual equipment, the whole process of edge banding needs to follow the edge of the plate manually to apply pressure to ensure the quality of edge banding.

 

(3) Drilling process

Row drilling is the earliest drilling equipment applied in 32 mm system, according to the number of rows of drilling can be divided into single row drilling, three rows of drilling and so on, through the installation of different drills in each drill bit, as well as adjusting the spacing of each row of drilling to adapt to the needs of drilling in different parts of the furniture.

This means that row drilling takes a lot of time to commission when making a new product, and once it is commissioned it has a very high machining efficiency, so customized companies still use it to process the standard part of the order.

Single-arm CNC machining centers can also be used to drill holes in addition to open stock, but like row drills they can usually only finish one side of a part at a time.

The drilling equipment commonly used by customized companies for flexible manufacturing is horizontal CNC drilling, which is divided into six-sided drilling and five-sided drilling according to the number of surfaces that can be processed at the same time, which can be applied to the assembly line layout, also known as pass-through CNC drilling.

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