As a classification of household wood products, the complexity of production and craftsmanship affects the intellectual level of manufacturing. The wooden door manufacturing industry has no advantage in the acquisition of cheap labor. It is an inevitable way to solve the current problems and dilemmas through intelligent production technology.
The level of the development trend of wooden door production and manufacturing has improved in recent years. The main changes can be summarized as "from manual to numerical control, single machine to connection" more and more processes have been centralized; The connection between them has become more efficient. Systematic solutions are becoming more and more critical, and the control of production costs and the improvement of efficiency and quality are the goals and directions.
The specific development trends can be summarized as follows:
Assembled wooden doors are becoming more and more popular
The market recognizes it assembled wooden doors because of their advantages in appearance and function, but their production process is much more complicated than that of laminated door panels. The complexity of assembling the wooden door structure brings about an increase in workstations and processes, high requirements for equipment performance, and high requirements for production information processing capabilities.
The processing of special-shaped parts such as door covers has increased 3
The shape of the door leaf and related components is relatively regular, while the structure and connection method of the door cover is much more complicated. In addition, the L-shaped decorative lines of the door cover and the T-shaped door cover panels are all special-shaped parts, which are difficult to process, which brings challenges to the automation level of wooden door production.
The intelligent level of production equipment has been improved
Wooden door processing centers are becoming more and more specialized, and the technical level is getting higher and higher, which is the future trend. We have been able to see professional wooden door production equipment provided by some mature equipment manufacturers, which can process horizontal frames, mullions, core panels, etc. The wooden door machining center has high precision, complete functions, and surprising intelligence.
Enhanced level of automated production line
In the previous wooden door production, there was relatively mature equipment in sawing, tenon and groove processing, painting, and other processes, and local production lines were also formed. Today, such connections are expanding, and the door leaf assembly, panel lamination, and other processes before the door leaf processing, as well as the verification, packaging, and other steps at the back end of the production, are all forming automated connections.
Problems existing in the current intelligent production of wooden door processing centers
To realize intelligent production with a higher degree of automation and even unmanned production, which will bring about the optimization of cost, benefit, and quality and achieve sustainable and healthy development, there are still many problems currently faced, mainly in the following aspects:
Critical equipment or devices cannot meet automated production3
An efficient wooden door production line needs more special equipment and more high-performance equipment. Although more and more general equipment is replaced by special equipment, there is still standard equipment in processes such as cutting and edge sealing. This critical equipment There is a particular gap between the performance and the international top level, which will affect the overall output effect of the production line.
The level of informatization and digitalization of production needs to be improved
Compared with the production informatization level of panel cabinet furniture, the digital and informatization level of wooden door production appears to be lacking. Although processing by identifying barcodes is realized in links such as sawing, slotting, punching, and edge sealing, there is a lack of flexibility and digitization in terms of the entire production line or production system.
The timely feedback on production status is also insufficient. For example, important information such as equipment failures and product problems cannot be effectively monitored. If these problems occur, if they cannot be found and solved the first time, it will bring instability to production efficiency and product quality—even adverse effects.
Insufficient integration of front-end data and back-end production data
The integration and fusion of data before and after production have always been a problem faced by furniture informatization production, especially for customized products. Wooden doors are a typical type of customized product because each customers door opening size and user needs are different. It isnt easy to achieve better integration and connection between the data obtained by on-site measurement, the design and dismantling data, and the production data that the equipment can identify.
As far as the production execution management system is concerned, due to the complex processing technology of wooden doors, many processes, and many equipment, it isnt easy to exchange information between equipment, form judgments, and make decisions. Some equipment information is even wholly isolated, which is not conducive to Factors of intelligent production.
Several suggestions for improving the intelligent production of wooden doors
Because of the problems existing in the intelligent production of the above wooden door products, what aspects can be improved or improved? The following suggestions may provide us with some new ideas or directions.
Add or improve necessary equipment or processes in the production line3
Since in the wooden door production line, some crucial processes or equipment have unsatisfactory performance or configuration, which leads to low production efficiency or product quality, then we can directly start from these processes or equipment that drag down production to improve and optimize.
We know that in production, it is often the "bottleneck process" that restricts the smooth progress of the entire process, and the bottleneck process is often those places with insufficient output and low efficiency. For example, in the production of wooden doors, the process of slotting and punching is slow, and the front edge sealing is relatively fast, which leads to the accumulation of materials entering the slot and punching. From an industrial engineering point of view, the low output of slotting and punching leads to inconsistencies in the production cycle of the entire line.
The solution is to set up a buffer warehouse for the door leaf before the process of slotting and punching, reasonably put the semi-finished products, and use information technology to achieve efficient and accurate storage and delivery management. In this way, the production cycle of the entire product can be re-optimized, thereby improving the overall output and efficiency.
Improve equipment scalability to increase access efficiency
Todays production is no longer dependent on the robust performance of the equipment itself. The complex production data brought by customized product requirements requires a high degree of information processing capability. In other words, it is necessary to communicate and interact between processes and equipment to generate judgments. And decision-making.
Specific to the wooden door production line or wooden door production equipment, the expansion performance of the equipment can be improved. In addition to some mainstream industrial protocols and Fieldbus protocols, for some private protocols or new protocols with higher flexibility, software toolkits for development should be opened. So that access to the device is more convenient and efficient.