Today, furniture manufacturing technologies provide for the processing of workpieces and cuts, as well as the assembly and packaging of manufactured products. It follows that furniture manufacturing equipment from chipboard as a result provides aesthetics, ergonomics and excellent quality of the finished product.
Cheap alternative to wooden furniture
Furniture made from solid wood has always been expensive, so materials from woodworking waste are used to reduce the price of finished products. At the moment, the basis of the material is often particle board, which subsequently undergoes drying and grinding, as well as impregnation with urea-formaldehyde resins.
Before deciding on the equipment necessary for the manufacture of furniture from chipboard, it is worth considering in more detail each type of it.
Cutting with a hand tool
A hand-held power tool is to be used only with a small productivity of the company, that is, almost exclusively in workshops, because to install the guide ruler of this tool in a position that ensures the correct position of the cut, it always takes a lot of time, especially when making high longitudinal cuts.
The advantage of this system is the same supply, which virtually eliminates the formation of chips of the facing material of the slabs being cut. Although there is a significant drawback - low efficiency.
Sawing equipment with carriage
Most small and medium-sized furniture companies use circular saw equipment with a carriage for cutting sheet and tile textures. Equipment of this type is manufactured by several dozen companies from Europe and Asia. Nevertheless, equipment for the production of chipboard furniture is well known in the domestic market.
Regardless of the manufacturer, basically it has the same efficiency. The difference, as a rule, is only in price and depends on the structural implementation, the length of the passage of the carriage, the likelihood of tilting the saws, the presence of assistive technologies and the manufacturer.
Before buying a machine, it is worthwhile to familiarize yourself with the opinions about the selected model, as well as with reviews on the correct movement of the carriage.
The disadvantages of this type of equipment when it is used for cutting sheet and tile products are as follows:
- the inability to perform the cutting of the package of plates due to their shift;
- difficulty loading plates onto the carriage;
- the probability of defects on the edges as a result of damage;
- the large area that the machines will occupy.
Equipment having a vertical cutting table
Small firms that manufacture furnishings especially appreciate equipment for the production of chipboard furniture, which takes up little space. These are the machines necessary for cutting. They have vertical tables in the form of a welded frame, the surface of which is covered with wooden beams. A horizontal guide is usually fixed at the top of the frame. A non-driven roller tire is mounted at the bottom of the surface.
Machines of this type guarantee high-quality cutting and reduce the likelihood of flaws in the plates during loading. Their significant minus is that the upper sawn-off parts of the bag after cutting are finished under their own weight can move down, and as a result, the operator has to consistently put wooden wedges into the horizontal cut.
Equipment with a clamping beam and a movable saw
Small furniture companies that produce mass-produced products are most often equipped with technologies for cutting materials with a movable saw and a pressure beam, equipped with a specialized pusher for moving the bag.
The price of equipment for cabinet furniture usually depends on the size of the working opening, the length of the passage of the pusher and the bag to be cut. To reduce the likelihood of unnecessary costs when buying this machine, it is necessary to conduct a thorough analysis of the cutting cards used. Often, the nomenclature of manufactured products and quantity do not allow cutting into blanks in a package of separate plates and allow the use of only special cards for cutting on one plate.
It should be noted that equipment of this type in comparison with similar ones provides maximum productivity, correctness of cut and its effectiveness. However, the financial capabilities of small firms usually do not allow them to buy such expensive machines, even if they were made in Asian companies.
Equipment efficiency
Equipment for the production of furniture facades, as well as machine tools for the manufacture of furniture cannot be estimated, for example, in cubic meters of plates or in the number of manufactured products. Since plate and sheet materials have completely different volumes, the total length consists of the materials to be cut and the number of products in them.
Therefore, the choice of equipment for furniture production should depend on the assessment of parts, cutting cards, as well as on the analysis of the time that is spent more on loading plates and unloading products.
When evaluating the productivity of cutting machines, one should not rely on the words of a consultant if they are not entered in the goods acceptance agreement. Try to learn in advance at enterprises that produce similar products about productivity and the result achieved using specific equipment.
Equipment for the production of furniture panels also deserves special attention. The furniture board itself is a wood material, which is obtained by gluing together certain planed solid wood beams.
Furniture board has a large number of advantages over other structural materials that are used for the production of cabinet furniture:
- a high-quality furniture panel is not subject to deformation;
- due to its environmental friendliness, furniture panels are widely used for the manufacture of furniture;
- furniture panels can be made in almost any size;
- low price.
Furniture manufacturing will be popular at all times. Many people are changing their outdated headsets, and wealthy people are constantly updating their furniture and do not wait until it goes out of fashion. And therefore, a good enterprise that has the necessary equipment for the production of cabinet furniture will always be profitable.
