Panels & Furniture Asia January/February 2021

FURNITURE MANUFACTURING
electronic saws and requires six
fewer workers – a result of robots
replacing manual labour in highintensity
repetitive work. Moreover, in
the aspect of processing, the milling
cutter can eliminate the subsequent
edge-banding and squaring process,
with high processing quality and
stability, and a low error rate. Due to
optimisation, the board utilisation
rate is greatly improved, leading to
cost savings.
The intelligent cutting workstation
solution allows convenient
connection to other processes. It
can be connected to automatic- and
rail-guided vehicles, and warehouse
system of raw materials for automatic
distributing, feeding and cutting. It can
also be connected to the edge-banding
machine and the warehouse system of
finished products for cutting, edgebanding,
drilling, sorting, packaging
and storage, with boards not reaching
the floor throughout the entire
continuous machining process.
Intelligent CNC Drilling Workstation
This solution is an industrial
drilling unit tailored for automation
transformation of large-scale wholehouse
customisation manufacturers. It
can be used independently or adjusted
appropriately for different sites to
faciliatate larger-batch production.
The workstation integrates the
scanning system, Nanxing Machinery’s
six-sided CNC drilling machine
NCB612D and NCG3312DA PTP CNC,
Kawasaki robots and conveying devices
through FinChinaSoft’s “Supervisor”.
NCB612D is responsible for the
processing of special non-standard
boards and those that require sixsided
drilling, and the PTP with dual
working stations and servomotor are
responsible for processing relatively
standard boards. The robots are
responsible for the transfer and
buffering of boards; the whole line
does not require human intervention.
After the master control reads the
workpiece information via the scan at
the start, it automatically, based on
the principle of maximum production,
allocates the most appropriate
processing line according to the
current status of equipment use and
processing technique, and calls the
processing programme in real time to
the corresponding ones to complete
the processing. If the processing area
is busy, the boards are automatically
transported to the buffering table for
waiting. The cooperation between
robots and machinery can realise
intelligent, efficient and flexible drilling
of workpieces. This can greatly improve
equipment utilisation and production
efficiency, reduce workpiece handling
frequency, increase the qualification
rate of products, and eliminate the
inefficiency and errors caused by
manual operations.
The deepening of intelligent
manufacturing in the furniture
industry is an inevitable trend due to
the rapid development of information
technology and the ever-changing
market demand. Nanxing Machinery’s
Smart Workstation integrates
mechanical equipment, robots and
conveying devices with one another
through “Supervisor”. One just needs
to upload the APS information and
MES processing data to “Supervisor”
to steer the entire workstation in an
orderly manner.
This module-based intelligent
application integration solution is
a cost-effective choice for furniture
enterprises to upgrade from
stand-alone production or simple
automatic production lines to
intelligent production, to maximise
the production capacity under limited
conditions. P
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