4 Principles of choosing a LGS framing machine equipment

Principle 1 Accuracy

The size of the parts produced by the light steel frame machine must be accurate, especially the correspondent position of the dimple holes. The industry high standard tolenrence for part length is +-1.0mm and the dimple hole correspondent position tolerences is +-0.5mm to ensure correct produciton from design. Thus it can ensure a smooth assembly to avoid additional labor cost. The inaccuracy problem normally occurs with below situations,

• When machine run slowly, the accuracy of component parts are fine, yet the inaccruacy would be increased as the speed goes up to normal or fast.
•  When the machine is producing short parts, the accuracy goes well but when it comes to long parts longer than 5m, the inaccuracy increased again.

High accuracy is the most basic requirement to a machine. If a machine can not reach this basic requirement, what esle can be expected?

Principle 2 Speed

Under the premise of accuracy, speed is meaningful to take into consideration. Take normal C89 machine equipment for example. One abroad leading brand writes on its general model data book, typical production speed for truss beam is 300m/hour and 700 m/hour for wall. It averages 450m/hour. Most domestic made machine has unsatifactory speed. Customers would be informed with the production capability as 2.5Ton/ day(8hours), which equals around 230m/hour based on material width 182mm and thickness 1.0 mm. Therefore you can obviously see the big speed gap here. Low speed machine is always cheaper to buy but expensive to use. As an end user, you must take it into consideration.

Principle 3 Stability

Machine must run continusely without block. When it comes to grouped column parts production, machine would easily get blocked if machine roller has design defect, because such component parts with long web notch which makes the part low intensity. Such blocking takes time and labor cost to solve which resulted in uncontinuity of the production. One famous abroad brand user has such headache.

Principle 4 Waste

With the out put production code from LGS software, one section of waste always inevitably comes between two joint parts area. Some equipment can have 40-50mm long waste material while some equipment with machine controlling software optimization can minimize the waste length to minimum. From a long run production there is 2% usage difference between the two type machine. The impact to a long time production cost can not be neglected.

All in all, when you are choosing the machine equipment, never care only on price or the seller's one side words. You must take all the above mentioned factors into consideration, then you can be a smart LGS machine equipment purchaser. Thus you can take a leading role in the fierce competitive market.