Panels & Furniture Asia March/April 2023

FURNITURE MANUFACTURING
Technological advancements and the rising
labour cost have required firms to replace
labour with machines, establish unmanned
automated factories, and assist customers to
transform from the traditional stand-alone
mode to a more efficient and cost-saving
intelligent production line by combining
intelligent machine and software, which
according to Finsoft is the wave of the future.
The industry will follow the trend of smallbatch,
diversified, customised production
in the future, and by combining intelligent
machines and software, clients will be able to
receive orders and offer quotations quickly,
integrate inventory information, and the
system will accurately grasp production status
and output quality.
From the front-end sales, Fin Design uses
woodworking software to design products
and get orders, and production files will
be generated. Production orders are
subsequently submitted into the Fin OMS
system, scheduled by the advanced planning
and scheduling (APS) system, and sent to the
Fin MES system for planned production. The
back-end of the product production process
is monitored and controlled in real-time to
ensure optimal quality. After the finished
products are included in the storage through
the warehouse management system (WMS)
system, a message will be integrated and
sent back to the Fin OMS system. From order
placing to inventory management, all the
steps are interlocked to check whether sales
goals are reached and to understand the
production line status.
Nanxing Machinery’s intelligent cutting
workstation, when cooperating with Finsoft’s
software, can connect from the edgebanding
machine and drilling workstation to the
finished product storage. The optimal
combination of cutting, edgebanding, drilling,
sorting, packaging, and storage via robots
builds an intelligent automated line. This
results in less labour cost and error rates
caused by labour, as well as less transfer time
in production and higher production output.
By using the intelligent supervisor system, the
entire production line, process flow, status
monitor, among others, can be controlled
via real-time interaction with machines,
robots and conveyor. Once the data in the
APS and MES systems is uploaded, the entire
Left images: Rendered designs with Fin Design software
workstation can be effectively driven, which
is monitored by the intelligent equipment
system to help customers establish more
efficient, cost-saving and product-optimised
automated production lines.
Industry 4.0 will bring a new chapter to the
manufacturing industry. Finsoft Intelligent
Technology will continue to improve their
product performances and develop new
products to fulfil the market’s needs, and to
Right images: Customer’s finished work
improve the equipment benchmark of panel
furniture enterprises so that the product
quality is comparable to international
advanced levels.
Nanxing Machinery and Finsoft Intelligent
Technology will exhibit at the upcoming
International Woodworking Machinery
Exhibition in Taipei Nangang Exhibition
Centre, held from 20-23 Apr 2023, at booth
B188.C68. P
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