Cells, systems & plant

One of the most recent lean cells developed by SCM in the last few years has been in China at one of the country's giants in the contract sector. It is an integrated flexible line of more than 2000m2 for the production of furniture components, installed in the early months of 2021 for the Star River Bay Group at its new YuFeng Factory in the province of Guangdong.

It is its technological configuration that makes this solution especially advanced in terms of automation and flexibility, a concrete example of the Smart&Human Factory devised by SCM to meet the needs and critical situations of mass customisation. A system of automated, modular flexible cells, easily reconfigurable, connected via automatic handling systems and integrated with industrial articulated robots. Supervisor software both for the entire line and for each cell and a MES system were also supplied by SCM.

All this stemmed from a specific need. The Chinese group, a giant with a turnover of 2 billion Euro, needed to invest in new factories to produce contract furniture for its tourist and commercial structures. For this new and ambitious project, SCM supplied not only an integrated flexible line for the production of cabinet components, but also five Superfici lines for painting and another 50 stand-alone technologies for different fields of application, representative of SCM's vast and varying range.

Integrated flexible line for the production of cabinet components

Top precision, automation and production flexibility are the backbone of the Smart&Human plant developed by SCM for an average production of 1,000/1,200 pieces/shift. The line includes cells for nesting, edgebanding and drilling, all managed by Maestro active watch supervision software that allows for the production process to be managed and controlled by monitoring the status of the individual machines in real time and of the whole line, optimising production performance. Maestro active watch also creates a twoway interconnection with the factory's IT systems, allowing part programs to be loaded remotely from office to factory and returning production reports that can be analysed in the office.

Area nesting

This cell sees two machining centres in action Morbidelli X200 state-of-the-art nesting that combines top speed with maximum flexibility in cutting panel. Both are fitted with input roller conveyors with QR code labelling system. The cell has a gantry system for loading the

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