Brush Production Line Configuration Solutions for Different Capacity Scales: Combination Logic of Multi-axis, Drum and Disc Brush Making Machines

This article helps you in understanding how manufacturers can approach production line configuration at different capacity scales and how multi-axes, drum and disc brush machine can fit into the overall system.

Significance of Production Capacity

When buying a brush making machine for sale, it is recommended to start with the machine specification. For example, this machine can produce “X” holes per minute but hole processing speed alone cannot determine how many finished brushes factory can actually produce. The production capacity is highly affected by:

Therefore, it is recommended that production line design should start with the product and production requirement not the machine catalogue.

Basic Production Line Concept

A brush production line consists of different interconnected stages of production from raw material to packing.

Not every manufacturer may need every stage to be automated. The level of automation depends on production volume requirements. Small manufacturers can use semi-automated loading and manual inspection.

Whereas, a high production volume company may require integrated automated feeding, multiple drilling/tufting stations and inspections along with material handling.

Capacity Level 1: Small Batch and Flexible Production

If you are starting a brush manufacturing operation or producing brushes in small batches, flexibility is usually more important than maximum output.

You have no need to invest a huge amount in equipment designed for one product, if you customers are constantly requesting new brushes. A modular or multi-axis CNC machine will be more effective.

For example, some brush machines use interchangeable platforms and modular configurations that permit production of different brush type on same equipment.

For this purpose, typical configurations involve multi-purpose CNC brush machines. This type of configuration is suitable to use when product variety is high, batch size is small, capital investment needs to be controlled and production volume is developing.   

On the early stage development of your factory, if you have order to produce a thousand of each disc brushes, flat brushes and cleaning brushes.

You may not necessarily need four dedicated production line but a machine having interchangeable tooling or platforms may provide greater flexibility and advantage of higher machine utilization across multiple products.

Capacity Level 2: Medium-Volume Production

As the orders increase from customers, the strategy and planning changes as the single machine alone is a bottleneck now due to higher competition for the machine time.

A better approach will be the separate major production families which creates specialization and retains flexibility.

Multi-Axis CNC machine will support the production of complex and variable products. Disc brush machine may support the production of disc brushes and roller brush machine will produce cylindrical brush productions whereas auxiliary equipment will be used for the material handling and finishing.

Capacity Level 3: High-Volume Industrial Production

When production volume becomes larger, dedicated equipment becomes more attractive. This helps in assigning machines according to the family of product and approach reduces competition between different product types for the same machine.

For example, family A supports the disc brush drilling and tufting whereas family B supports drum/roller brush drilling and tufting whereas family C is the multi-axis CNC production and family D is the support systems which helps in material handling, inspection and finishing.

Need of Dedicated Disc Brush Equipment

Disc brushes have different manufacturing characteristics which includes circular work piece and concentric patterns, radial patterns, variable hole spacing and different tuft densities. The dedicated disc brush equipment can be configured specifically around these requirements.

For example, MX Brush Machinery lists a four-axis disc brush drilling machine designed for straight and angle drilling with customizable parameters for disc diameter and hole diameter.

Other industry equipment such as multiple drilling heads with tufting heads for disc brush production and use CNC/PLC-controlled programming for different brush designs. This shows that machine configuration should follow the brush geometry.

Need of Dedicated Drum Brush Production

A drum or roller brush introduces rotational movement. Depending on the design of brush, production can involve coordination between linear movement, rotational movement, drilling position and tufting position.

This makes drum brush equipment a natural component of a production line for manufacturers specialization in cylindrical industrial brushes. For example, industrial brush machinery suppliers offer systems designed for round roller brushes and related applications.

Need of Multi-Axes Brush Machines

A multi-axis linkage brush machine is most valuable when your products require greater positioning flexibility and potential applications include.

Multi-axis brush machines are usually purchased for complex brush patterns and angled or curved bristle applications. However, you should not automatically assign every product to multi-axis brush machines. If a simple disc brush can be produced using dedicated disc equipment, using a multi-axis machine may not be economical.

The configuration for the different factory sizes are indicated in the table as shown.

The actual configuration is calculated from product cycle times, order volumes and machine availability along with the required yield. The production scale and equipment strategy are shown as:

About MX Brush Machinery:

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