The Application and Research of Flexible Design in Modern Furniture Manufacturin

Abstract. According to the current market of furniture and furniture, manufacturing enterprises is using flexible design. And traditional furniture production process, and on the basis of this paper put forward a new concept offurniture flexible manufacturing technology and furniture flexible manufacturing systems.

Key words: Flexible Design; Furniture Manufacturing;Application

1.Introduction

Furniture is People's Daily life appliance, except the requirements have very strong real Use sex outside, still should have adornment sex, art, by people comfortable, good Environment. At present, the furniture varieties gradually diversification, popular trend is also extremely fast the rhythm of the high speed in to change, and furniture market competition is becoming increasingly fierce Chou. have With, both for furniture production enterprise, or to furniture production process of each A link all demands that they can adapt to the small batch, many kinds of production methods, and Can make to speed to market l reaction. To improve the material broken people money Life to and the corresponding change with the market. This determines the production of furniture Craft must reform, it is necessary to} I into new manufacturing process to the concept to adapt to this change.

2.With industrial production in the development and change of the pattern

Since the 60’s began toughening, worldwide, furniture industry has been will be Large-scale, high efficiency, high working procedure scattered process line as a preferred Methods of production, used in the production of high quality, high-volume, single or 230 The furniture of the variety products, 70’s since toughness of board type furniture and production line is the representative production mode single cylinder type, single, production batch structure A large quantity of various disassembling board type furniture. Through the highly specialized production line Production, can reduce the unit product is fixed cost. Increase market share Rate, this has become almost a rule furniture production process design and management "Golden rule" many furniture production enterprise in using a law left at that time Had a huge success but opposition kua furniture product variety is renovated, Market Ji situation more quickly, it is lack of contingency ability, restricted the home with industrial production process.

3.Machine tools or production possibility of moderate concentration and points

Machine tools or the technology of the production line is to point to adapt to different possibilities are born The ability of production requirements, include roughly the following content can be completed the process of Class, processing components of the type, the size of materials and the applicable scope of production Scale and processing components and the process technology of unit costs likely the width of the process The main products of the same degree according to production batch size and variety, how much to Decision process is moderate concentration or moderate scattered. In a single variety, big Mass production, often using process of moderately diversify ways, a machine Bed, a location for only a process of processing, and therefore must be properly Narrowing of the machine tool, the possibility process, in order to improve the teaching rate, reduce cost, the tube The machine structure, by the way of the specialization of automatic machine production process Line to get through all of the processing. And in small batch, varieties are of products. In order to improve the ability of the machine tool, strain and the process is flexibility. A As the process of the moderately centralized way, make a machine or a work station as more as possible on complete several processing. The machine process possibility properly to relax, general characteristics enhancement, can adapt to different product production. A kind of requirements is if this process by numerical control machine king composition, as the computer Control and management, that is, the disposition of the production system or automation factory. The variety of our products and batch and processing method

4.Flexible system of hair the morning and evolution

Flexible manufacturing system FMS is a by computer Richard system, control system, CNC processing center and raw materials to be automatic Storage system with a combination of organic whole, can pick any order and tip Workers have different processes and a group of work piece machining time, can timely, since By scheduling management. Little system can be in the device's technical performance range since Move to adapt to the variety of machining and production batch changes. It is the most important feature of the machine tool can hinder the largest utilization rate and improve production efficiency Rate. The more flexible system joined up; with a central computer management Control, into the CAD, CAM and the management of the enterprise and management system, namely can form a flexible manufacturing workshop or automation production enterprise. Furniture flexible production technology is 80s development up high Comprehensive technology product. As early as 1958 the United States is developed art material processing With numerical control machine tool, l0 years Britain, Japan has produced with art material processing After the milling machine, Sweden in 1966 Kokakos company established the world the first digital electronic control automation system brake material, to 80 Generation, British Wad in company, Italy SCM company, Morbidly The company in CNC milling machine after the numerical control technology is developed based on the CNC Art material processing center. Used in furniture production process flow in the typical The model, have the s CM Route, Cente9, U45, Author510 etc, these machine tool equipment are using microcomputer digital control System, high efficiency than ordinary machine 3 ~ 4 times, processing with high precision and no human Processing error, processing quality is stable. With CAD, CAM, CAT plan In computer aided design, manufacturing and inspection technology further improved, people try Figure development a will three together in system, in order to finish from the design, Manufacturing to test of flexible manufacturing system (FMs). 6 O s, ubiquitous All was first used in mechanical processing industry and automobile manufacturing, 1983 ~ 1985 Italian SCM, Morbidelli company launched furniture production Flexible system, mainly for the window frame processing technology, in eight hours Transform 25 studies craft processing, when stop no more than the work of time gate 5 (24 rain), processing production efficiency of window frame for 2 ~ 5 rain, by calculation Digital control machine tools and adjust position and orientation and length shown work piece Regulate, and ensure the normal operation of the processing system for the five lowest batch limit 6 pieces. 1994 German Hannover countries art work machinery exhibition, meaning The German HOMAG group, SCM group and introduced a board type kitchen Furniture flexible production line and office furniture flexible production line, make furniture of flexible design production system into the large scale application industrialization stage.

5.Flexible Measure

Flexibility is to point to the factory or production car smell system has also processing various the ability of product form, tolerate failure ability and unattended on conditions Extend the time of the operation ability, that is, the ability to change. Flexible as The three basic forms

(1) The flexible ability, is the system of product form to process changes Ability, can use from product design to production of time to measure. The shorter the time of the system platform is dissolved the greater the flexible, the small batch processing, structure form complex, changeful product is very important.

(2) The flexible capacity, is the ability to change the system output, is the department all useful ability and the ability of using the ratio of the calculation of the smell.

(3) It can be expanded flexible, show that the system to adapt to the new product introduction of ability, That process system to the demand of the market change accordingly, the ability to adjust speed, the system to adapt to the demand of the market, in short smell the endogenous marketable when output of products, in the strategy has an important meaning on righteousness.

6.Flexible Production System Compositions

6.1 Flexible manufacturing system

FMS numerical control machine tool and automatic material is transfer units, and the combination of the Computer control processing complex, it can automatic finish at the same time many varieties Small batch production tasks. Mainly by three zai FMS group into: (1) Y-two more A numerical control processing system I (2) material transportation and storage of the automation system All I (3) computer control information department environment. Flexible manufacturing system function as follows (1) to the group technology as the core For parts analysis organization} (2) badge machine for heart layout work plan} edges (3) To processing center as the core automatically change the knife, Hanging thing I (4) to tray and luck Lose system as the core storage and transport work piece} (5) to automatic detection as the core Automatic detection, positioning and the lock. Flexible system is of machine tools generally by 5 ~ l0 machine tools composition, l0Taiwan with the accounts for 75.

If the application of FMS restrictions breakthrough department, the various sectors, Such as computer aided design (CAD), computer aided process design (CAPP), computer aided processing (CAM), computer quality assurance department All (CAQ), production information management system (MIs), automation manufacturing system (MAS) with integrated computer center, it is computer integrated system Build system (CIM s).

6.2 Automatic storage system

Because no certain beats processing system, the work must have Storage device to adjust each station processing time difference of the smell. The main Forms are: (1) the large ask board automatic boards (APC), namely progressive the circular ring or ask board transportation device, it is not only a storage station, and negative Transport and machine tools and bear ask board exchange work piece task l (2) rotary ring Multi-level warehouse (3) rotary annular plane warehouse l (4) large warehouse Library, have been placed the extraction of article in the library management, send, the loading and unloading refers to boast, etc Automatic function, in order to adapt to the needs of the development of the system. The form of transportation lines are four boat: linear} closed Haul type I random access type and machinery and flexible unit connection type. Applied the most The delete closed loop widely type. Transportation equipment is mainly select belt, rail car, suspension luck fine machine, Dc motor and all kinds of cranes, etc.

6.2Flexible production technology integrated organization management

The system not only to the process of production a link, such as CAD, CAM, but comprehensive analysis of the production process of the coordination A link, for production process of various links between the technical parameters to lose Send, transform provide a Ann base effective, accurate and timely method. The goal Each link is to optimize the connection, and the strengthening of each section of a comprehensive, coordinated ability Flexible process production system is usually the following several levels.

(1) Machine tools levels: includes production machine, automatic fine send line, objects Material boards, industrial robots or robots, CNC machine tools. The levels of the each system are relatively independent unit, in a different level, execution On the processing tasks.

(2) The flexible processing production unit; Including material conveying system, the essence of the life Production plan management, the computer management, CNC machine control system, etc. each Unit is a group of workstation, each unit can be equipped with studying procedures, has a memory The function of the controller, controller memory storage of each process Technical data, information and operating instructions, the operating instructions on a level of machine Bed.

(3) The supervision and control of management process control components area: this is flexible department The center of the series, is the whole production process to complete implementation stage, such as saw to cut, Cutting board, sealing side, drilling, outfit tendon, assembly and so on various processing link control management Area. This includes equipment and raw materials according to the data of the optimized Processing technology program, according to the CNC machine can realize the processing technology of the system Order of technology parameters, and coordinate technical data flow distribution Each unit controller and actuators, ensure data processing parameters and the prospective It passed. So its function is advanced the supervision and management of a certain number of soft Sex unit and unit of the material, ask quantity, scale and action coordination, mainly is the production plan scheduling, process control, the raw material management, outsourcing standard Must a management and the cutting tool management, namely for flexible manufacturing system (FMs).

(4) Flexible automation factory (FA); This level is a very complex The production process of complex process, this includes has above three levels of if Do a flexible system consisting of a processing system or factory. Flexible system highly integrated ability, including such as logic analysis, self maintenance tone Section, the comprehensive judgment, CAE, CAD, CAM, and the CAT Office automation, support.

6.3 Flexible system of cutting tool flow

The FMS flexible ability depends largely on tool flow, the early the FMS system has the cutting tool storehouse, with the capacity of the cutting tool storehouse more and more Big, increased the time choosing tools, and to reduce the efficiency. Later in the 80 s The introduction of FMS tool flow, the goal is the current processing required only knife Provide and standard tools in processing center on a database of cutting tools, set up a department All the central tool library, use different ways to realize central library and processing cutting tool Center of cutting tool storehouse tools transform.

7.Control systems

Control system is responsible for the flexible management system of coordination with all kinds of institutions Taiwan, in order to realize the process automation. Control system including machine tools, materials control of the storage and transport, surveillance, communication and system control and plan the computer system, computer software to provide all the control management and monitoring The function to make the system make full use of FM S control divide into classes a garbage: (1) Chongjin control mainly completed under the anus three functions; (2) make association Adjustable control within the scope of the materials demand planning.(3) control base factory work Art production plan. (4) The management and control of base of factory databases and information systems. (5) The FMs level control various production process of plans and Assessment, mainly engaged in content: (1) a long run for FMS runoff Strateg (2) review FMS various performance} (3) run provide FMS operation Auxiliary support. (4) The FMS = garbage for production process control coordination control System. Its main functions: (1) in the production line of the parts of partial (2) by category To the best scheme of distribution of resources and balanced FMS, effectively to add Workers use {(3) the higher level to adapt to the change of plan and material. (4) the FMs three-level control refers to the process of a machine For control and management, seal the nc processing center of the numerical control a computer

A system, its main functions: (1) the machining process optimization l (2) the knife The distribution of a feed, and do the knife plan l (3) of the formulate of homework instructions, transmit(4) system fault diagnosis, etc. Yu 2 for control system Yu classification. Control system need of the software includes: 1. the machine control 2. Transportation control 3. Surveillance is pure.

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