Driven Pile Foundation: Station

วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 1 กรกฎาคม พ.ศ. 2553

Robotic apparatus disposed - appliance panels to CNC arid station

WOODEN IT BE LOVELY?... CLIENT: ErgoFurn - a leading QLD manufacturer of commercial furniture, seating and office screens, offering custom designs as well as an express stock range. PROBLEM: Take apart any typical office work station or boardroom cupboard and you'll find yourself with a pile of wood panels in groups of similar sizes & thicknesses, and with various patterns of drilled holes. It's a crucial need for each panel to be accurately drilled - securing the flush joins between panels that give the final unit its strength and quality in workmanship and appearance. Despite a skills shortage reducing the availability of cabinet makers, the industry has continued to grow and achieve greater efficiency through automation. You don't need to be IKEA* before you're producing enough units to make automation viable. To produce a reasonable quantity of completed furniture units (say twenty desk stations) it's quickly apparent that this will require an exponential amount of operator and machining time. CNC machines such as the SKIPPER 100 from Biesse have delivered substantial time savings while assuring accuracy in drilling, while other such machines can even include gluing, dowel insertion and more in the same process. This reduces errors and strain on the operator while improving quality and consistency in the final unit. However, there is still a need for each panel to be carefully picked, loaded onto the machine, which then needs to be activated, then panel unloaded again ...