A certain precision component digital machining cell

Customer Pain Points

Core Requirements: This project focuses on multi-category precision component machining scenarios, delivering a customized digital automation solution for the client to meet the full-process synergy requirements of turning and milling machining, automatic loading/unloading, and optical inspection for 9 types of precision parts.
Existing Pain Points: The entire process—machining, loading/unloading, and inspection—relies heavily on manual labor, resulting in high labor intensity and low efficiency. Moreover, human errors compromise machining and inspection precision, making it difficult to meet high-quality requirements. The absence of automated transfer, flipping, and pallet management equipment leads to poor process flow and prevents the formation of a closed loop. Furthermore, lacking a unified digital control system results in inadequate capabilities for production scheduling, equipment coordination, and process traceability, making it difficult to manage the mass production of 9 types of parts. There is an urgent need for an integrated digital machining cell to achieve a dual improvement in efficiency and quality.

Core Machining and Inspection Unit: Integrates 1 domestically produced high-precision 9-axis turn-milling compound machining center with 1 imported optical measuring device, responsible for precision turning-milling machining and post-machining accurate inspection respectively. The two units collaborate to ensure quality, with CHINAF completing full equipment coordination, adaptation, and debugging.
Automated Execution Unit: Equipped with 1 fixed six-axis articulated robot, supplemented by the CHINAF pallet transfer system, workpiece flipping mechanism, and pallet entry/exit stations, realizing precise transfer, automatic flipping, and orderly loading/unloading of parts between machining and inspection equipment without manual intervention, adapting to the clamping and transfer requirements of 9 types of parts.
Digital Control and Safety Protection Unit: Features the CHINAF PCS Production Manufacturing Management Software to coordinate full-process scheduling, realizing real-time monitoring of production progress and equipment status as well as process traceability. It is equipped with the CHINAF safety protection system to comprehensively ensure the safety of equipment, personnel, and parts, ensuring stable operation of the entire line.

Full-Process Automation, Enhancing Production Efficiency: Through the collaboration of the six-axis robot, CHINAF automation equipment, and the PCS system, closed-loop operations for 9 types of parts are completed. Manual intervention is reduced by over 90%, and process connection efficiency is increased by 65%. This resolves the pain points of manual operations and enhances mass production capability.
High-Precision Control, Ensuring Product Quality: Relying on the domestic 9-axis turn-milling machining center and imported optical inspection equipment, combined with the CHINAF automation system, human errors are minimized. This ensures the machining consistency and qualification rate of the 9 types of parts, meeting high-precision production requirements.
Digital Synergy, Empowering Lean Production: The CHINAF PCS system realizes digital control over the entire line, achieving 100% full-process traceability and data synchronization accuracy. Eliminating the need for manual scheduling, it significantly reduces labor and management costs, facilitating lean production.
High-Adaptability Integration, Reducing Upgrade Costs: CHINAF provides full-process integration services adapted to the machining of 9 types of parts. Product varieties can be switched without frequent equipment adjustments, and large-scale modifications to the existing production line are unnecessary, effectively lowering retrofitting and operation & maintenance costs.