What Should Be Paid Attention to When the HF Hot Press Machine Is in Operation?

Wood is a porous material with larger pores (cavities) and smaller pores (microfiber gaps). Water can easily penetrate into the wood, causing the wood to expand and cause dimensional changes, which are characteristics of wood shrinkage and expansion.

The most important thing is that wood is an anisotropic material. Wood will expand and shrink unevenly with the moisture content in all directions, which makes the wood itself easy to warp, deform, crack, and produce other defects. For the treatment of this kind of wood, HF hot press machines are used.

So what should be paid attention to when processing wood with high-frequency hot pressing technology?

The high-frequency hot pressing technology of automation, numerical control, and information technology provide a reasonable solution to the complex, precise, multi-variety, and small-batch processing problems in the entire wood custom production process, but the efficiency problem cannot be completely solved by intelligent numerical control equipment. In addition, we need to start with time management and cost control.

1. Time management

Effectively arrange the production time of workers, improve the utilization rate of the equipment, and produce stable products with the least raw materials, semi-finished products, finished products, and the least labor allocation.

Through data analysis, it can be judged whether the time utilization is reasonable. First, record the time to complete the part as A, record the time required to process the workpiece on the machine tool as B, and record the time required for the worker to produce the workpiece as C. A=B=C, which means that people, machines, and things are in the best and most stable state and can achieve continuous production, and C means waste of manpower.

In addition, as the main body in the production process, employee morale, technical level, enthusiasm of all employees, continuous improvement, and development ideas are all important factors to ensure efficient production.

2. Cost control

It will only waste time and increase costs, but will not generate revenue, and every enterprise cannot tolerate it. Another guarantee for efficient production is to avoid waste, otherwise, the profit will remain zero. In the entire wood customization process, common waste can be divided into 5 categories, which should be avoided as much as possible.

(1) Transportation waste: delays in the process of transporting products to inspection stations, semi-finished products processing sites, and finished products stacking sites;

(2) Waiting for waste: Waiting for the waste of work generated by the work department while waiting for help, guidance, maintenance, and other important tasks;

(3) Processing waste: low efficiency, ineffective processing, impossible or unnecessary steps;

(4) Inventory waste: waste of finished products or obsolete products stranded in inventory;

(5) Scrap: Too many unqualified products, poor cooperation, multiple scraps, etc.

Generally, efficient and accurate smart equipment is a necessary choice for woodworking companies. Under the premise of ensuring product quality, through production management to improve labor productivity, increase the utilization rate of high-frequency heat presses, reduce product production costs, and improve product market competitiveness.

The above information is provided by hot press machine manufacturer.