The future development trend of woodworking machinery industry

Since the reform and opening up, my country's forest coverage rate has increased significantly, and the forest economy has developed rapidly. The total output value of forestry has increased from 17.96 billion yuan in 1978 to 7.33 trillion yuan in 2018, and the output of economic forest products such as wood-based panels, floors, wooden doors, and furniture ranks first in the world. my country has become a very influential country in the production, trade and consumption of forest products.

Woodworking machinery is indispensable in the production process of forest products, and the innovation and progress of woodworking machinery has also promoted the development of forest products processing industry to a certain extent. my country is rich in forest products, especially wood furniture, which is the largest wood product in the world. my country's furniture has a long history and exquisite craftsmanship. It is a treasure in history and culture. Excellent furniture culture must be inseparable from convenient and efficient woodworking tools. my country began to use woodworking tools as early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, including planes, saws, drills, ink buckets Wait. After thousands of years of development, my country's woodworking machinery has a high degree of automation. In 2011, the total output value of the woodworking machinery industry exceeded that of Italy, and in 2013, it surpassed Germany. With the advent of the Internet era and the vigorous development of custom home furnishing, a new development trend has been formed in my country's woodworking machinery industry.

1. The general development trend of my country's wood machinery industry

1. Flexible production to meet the individual needs of consumers

With the vigorous development of the Internet industry, consumers are increasingly pursuing personalization and customization in home decoration. Under this trend, my country's large-scale customized home furnishing industry has gradually formed. The so-called mass customization mode refers to a mode that realizes customization and marketing based on the specific needs of consumers on the basis of large-scale customization of enterprises. Custom home businesses can take advantage of the mass customization model to improve production efficiency and consumer satisfaction.

According to statistics, in 2016, the average operating income level of custom furniture enterprises was significantly higher than that of finished home furnishing enterprises, and the operating income of large custom home furnishing enterprises with the best sales reached 7.134 billion yuan.

However, custom home furnishing companies want to produce on a large scale, reduce costs, and meet the individual needs of consumers. At this time, the disadvantages of rigid production are gradually revealed, and flexible production is the best way to solve this contradiction. The characteristics of flexible production are small batches, multiple varieties, standardization of parts and components, fast organization of production, modularization of production systems, and informatization of management. This allows custom home furnishing companies to be more regulated and faster and more efficient in the production process.

The flexible production of home furnishing requires woodworking machinery to produce a series of different types of products, and the machine can process different parts as the products change. Flexible manufacturing system is generally an automatic control system composed of numerical control processing equipment, material transportation device and computer control system. It can be adjusted according to changes in manufacturing tasks and production environment, and is suitable for multi-variety, medium and small batch production. The production line of flexible household production is controlled and managed uniformly by computer. For example, a flexible production line composed of a highly automated CNC machining center needs to be equipped with a corresponding information transmission, storage and centralized management system to ensure the maximization of flexible production.

Flexible production also requires the design and improvement of woodworking machinery and equipment not only for a single equipment, but for the entire production line.

2. Intelligent manufacturing improves manufacturing production efficiency

Due to the rapid development of customized home furnishing and the gradual formation of the digital home furnishing manufacturing model, the home information management and control technology is also becoming more and more mature, and home intelligent manufacturing has become the general trend. Intelligent manufacturing is the core of "Industry 4.0". This model requires intelligent machines and humans to work together to carry out intelligent activities in the manufacturing process. It utilizes a new generation of digital technology and is a new round of manufacturing innovation.

Digitization is the foundation and core of intelligent manufacturing, which enables enterprises to use concise coding technology to collect, analyze, process, transmit and apply various types of information, text, images and data to achieve standardization and high-speed processing, allowing enterprises to produce Manufacturing is more efficient, providing better product and service experience, and improving user satisfaction.

Intelligent machining centers and intelligent production lines also require intelligent production equipment. Some large household enterprises have adopted intelligent production lines, while small and medium-sized enterprises have semi-intelligent production lines or do not use intelligent production lines but have automated production equipment. The intelligent production line integrates the processes of cutting, edge sealing, drilling, sorting, packaging, etc., to achieve a true "unmanned factory". Intelligent production equipment includes CNC cutting machine, edge banding rotary system, power transmission line, gantry grabber, six-sided drilling and punching equipment, automatic sorting system, multi-axis handling robot, etc.

3. From the design of production equipment to the design of production line

Due to the requirements of flexible production and intelligent manufacturing, woodworking machinery is not only the design of a single device, but the design of the entire production line. At present, the home furnishing industry not only needs to upgrade and digitalize the production design of some large-scale and low-grade woodworking machinery, but also needs to improve the entire production line to cope with large-scale flexible production.

In the layout and planning of the production line, we should fully consider the short development cycle and life cycle of furniture products, large production flexibility, improve the utilization rate of production equipment and the degree of standardization of production, and set the material preparation area according to market demand. Machine work is properly distributed.

4. Coordinated development of upstream and downstream enterprises

The furniture industry has the characteristics of low entry threshold and simple business model, so the number of furniture enterprises is large, but most of the furniture enterprises have the characteristics of small scale and weak strength, and the industry concentration is low. And due to geographical reasons, my country has formed a number of industrial clusters in the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, the Sichuan Basin, and the Bohai Rim, but the development of other regions is relatively weak.

However, furniture enterprises with different levels of development have different demands on woodworking machinery. At present, in addition to the performance and product quality requirements of individual production equipment, production line planning is also required, and attention must also be paid to the green environmental protection of the equipment. The woodworking machinery and equipment required by the enterprise covers wood processing, mass customized production equipment, surface treatment equipment, intelligent packaging equipment, knives and mechanical accessories. Taking panel furniture as an example, the upstream of the panel furniture machinery industry mainly includes hardware accessories, electrical components and other enterprises that are less dependent on the industry, but the market competition is relatively large, and prices will fluctuate periodically. The downstream enterprises are furniture, wooden doors, cabinets and other industries, which are the terminal consumer goods of the industrial chain and the driving force for the development of panel furniture machinery. The panel furniture machinery industry has a strong linkage with the downstream industry and is also highly dependent.

The linkage of the entire industry chain is also the focus of the development of my country's furniture industry. The linkage development of materials, process technology and equipment enables more direct communication between upstream and downstream of the industry, not only for mutual benefit, but also for the development of the entire industry.

2. Panel furniture

Under the background of current intelligent production of panel furniture, the main problems include that the design end and the production end have not been fully opened; the factory production is chaotic, the number of orders is large but it is difficult to have an optimal solution; the lack of information management. In view of the above problems, panel furniture production equipment also needs to be improved. For example, the large plate set-cutting equipment processed by milling has gradually replaced the electronic cutting saw, which not only optimizes the manufacturing process of furniture, but also facilitates automatic feeding, processing and discharging, making it possible to use the robotic arm to cut the material. . The edge banding connection unit usually consists of 2~4 high-speed automatic edge banding machines, which are suitable for edge banding processing of melamine board, MDF, plywood, etc. Acrylic etc. CNC machining center is the embodiment of the positive energy of panel furniture production. It can realize operations such as drilling at any angle, sawing at any angle, high-quality edge banding and multi-workpiece processing.

After improving a single production equipment, it is necessary to wait for the layout and planning of the production line to maximize production efficiency and solve production problems.

3. Solid wood furniture

The difficulty of intelligent production of solid wood furniture is special-shaped parts. Shaped parts are solid wood parts with irregular shapes in solid wood furniture, which usually contain non-circular curves, and are complicated to process and produce. Generally, the parametric design of special-shaped parts is carried out, and the CNC machining center is used for milling and pin processing. CNC machining center has become the preferred equipment for special-shaped parts. It can complete the processing of complex parts and quickly adapt to changes in design and process. With the application of CNC technology, it can improve the production efficiency of furniture and realize the rational application of resources.

4. Conclusion

my country's woodworking machinery is constantly developing and improving, and flexible production and intelligent manufacturing are the direction and key to future development. At present, my country's woodworking machinery and equipment are still relatively dependent on imported equipment, and improving their own innovation ability is the guarantee to occupy a leading position in the international market. The development of woodworking machinery in China must first absorb foreign advanced technology, and then upgrade and improve according to the specific conditions of our country, develop new efficient products, and realize the transformation from single production equipment to production line development. Combined with the different development conditions of upstream and downstream enterprises, it can maximize its production value. Panel furniture enterprises and solid wood furniture enterprises have different equipment requirements, and the design of woodworking machinery needs to be targeted to truly solve the production problems of different types of furniture.