Panels & Furniture March/April 2022

FURNITURE MANUFACTURING
Left and right edgebanding connection
composed of two NB7PCGM-PC
Nanxing’s NB-Laser 10
as XML, MPR, BAN, among others, thus
optimising the coordination of various
agencies. According to Nanxing, the average
efficiency of the drilling workstation can
reach more than six pieces per minute, and
more than four pieces per minute for slotting
and drilling. Such speed is 2.5 times faster
than the traditional stand-alone machine,
and the whole machine is more compact with
a smaller floor space.
The NCB612DPL for auto-labelling and sorting
NB-laser 10, Nanxing’s PC-controlled
automatic laser edgebanding machine for
the edgebanding requirements of cabinet
doors of high-end custom furniture, will also
make its debut at CIFM. Laser edge sealing
technology uses a laser edgebanding adhesive
layer composed of special polymers as an
alternative to hot melt adhesive. Nanxing
reported that the laser instantly melts the
reaction layer of the edgeband, without the
glue application process or glue line, which is
waterproof, heat-resistant, and eye-pleasing.
The machine is also equipped with a set
of polyurethane reactive (PUR) devices,
which enables the rapid switch between
laser and PUR to meet the needs of different
edgebanding processing.
DRILLING AND SORTING WORKSTATION
The drilling process of whole-house custom
furniture production requires flexibility and
processing accuracy in the equipment. To
answer that requirement, Nanxing Machinery
has customised the double-station six-sided
computerised numerical control (CNC) drilling
machine NCB612DPL for batch-size-one
production, and the machine is connected to
the sorting workstation.
The corresponding processing data is
retrieved by automatically scanning the QR
code or barcode on the plate. Subsequently,
the plate is allocated to the corresponding
waiting area for processing, according to the
processing situation of the station. Both the
left and right stations have two drill blocks
and one spindle at the top, one drill block
and one spindle at the bottom. Hence the
whole machine has four upper and two lower
drill blocks, and four spindles working at
the same time. Moreover, powered by the
artificial intelligence (AI)-algorithm of the
third-generation smart operating system,
it can recognise various file formats such
After drilling, the plates are transported into
the sorting workstation. For sorting, a robot
and a double-layer conveying platform are
used, and after the plate is automatically
scanned to retrieve the order information, the
robot will sort it to the corresponding shelf
from the lower conveying platform. After the
order is complete, the complete stack of plates
will be discharged to the upper conveying
table, to be transported to the packaging
process. The double-layer conveying table has
one entry and one exit to ensure that the fed
and discharged plates do not interfere with
each other, improving the transport efficiency
without manual intervention.
In 2022, home furnishing manufacturing will
usher in an era with advanced software and
hardware to enhance manufacturing strength
and competitiveness. The workstation
solutions for whole-house custom furniture
production breaks down Industry 4.0 into
scalable modular smart workstation according
to working procedures and functions. Nanxing
Machinery is committed to providing these
solutions and will present the modular
application of Industry 4.0 in interzum
guangzhou 2022. P
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