Steel Drum Proudction Line of Japan

Japan steel drum manufacturing

Japan's steel drum manufacturing began in 1930, the production capacity is quite low, and are produced by the manual method. 1960, steel drum manufacturing rapid development, mainly due to the rapid development of the petrochemical industry demand, followed by iron and steel industry has also been a high-speed development.Now, the Japanese steel drums automatic production line batch export 10 modern fully automatic steel drum production line each monthly production of steel drums production line capacity of 1 million These steel drums production enterprises: industry in 1959-1969 built in the years of the past 10 years, the production of steel drums products of these factories, 75% 200L steel drums. A total of 18 of these enterprises. 12 enterprises located in Tokyo and Osaka, two economically developed areas, each enterprise's production amounted to as much as 70,000 per month. I

Second, the automatic steel drums production line

To China for 30 years until 1965, since the extensive use of steel materials production of steel drums, the Japanese steel drum production line speed has not been more than 3.5 / min. At present, however, the production capacity of the steel drums production line has already broken the speed of 5 / min. This is the generation of high efficiency due to the automatic production equipment.

The yield is 2.4 200L steel drum production line in Japan, the monthly production capacity of less than 70,000 / min, mostly concentrated in a small steel drum manufacturing enterprises, such production lines, each line of the operatives generally 23.5 individuals around . The large-scale steel drum production line need only 14.8 operatives, because the degree of automation of the production line of distinction.

Automation Examples of application of the results

1, the type of automation projects

Following about the representative of the latest achievements in Japan.

(1) barrel cover-pressure
The device automatically forming the bottom of the top of the steel drums, disposable suppress the ripple of the ring in the bottom cover, pressure 250t. The device usually only one person to operate, and has a 5% return on investment.

(2) automatically supply the mouth piece bucket

From the top of the device to automatically supply the parts, not only fast, and accurate location. Lamination process for the barrel bottom cover with the mouth piece bucket.The supply speed automatic matching with the host automatically find the best position.Which greatly saves labor.

(3) automatic top for the bottom of the barrel to the barrel body

The top of the bottom of the barrel of this equipment can automatically and accurately from both ends of the pressure barrels facilitate rapid seaming. The device is capable of automatically positioning and automatic equipment maintenance, so workers can complete production simply an operation.

(4) cover the installation and removal of temporary turnaround

Steel drum coating around the need to install and dismantle temporary weeks mouth piece bucket to prevent paint sprayed into the barrel, because the official mouth piece bucket for electroplating products, does not require painting. This equipment on turnover cover fully automated installation and dismantling labor savings.

(5) Automatic installation mouth piece bucket

Supplied to the mouth piece bucket in drums after painting automatically and accurately installed. The installation can ensure high production efficiency, to adopt appropriate tightening force. According to the needs of the consumer, you can also install security ring or for foods bunghole. These efforts are using computer digital function for automatic control.

(6) steel drums automatic presses

This machine printing equipment to the steel drums appearance can user needs in steel drums on the printed name of the contents in a variety of fonts, production date and serial number, the device can be installed in the elegant environment, and very labor savings.

2, the latest automated outcome

Recently, Japan being the latest automation research. These results and some have been in some factories use.

(1) automatic forming the bottom of the barrel and the barrel top

This device can automatically supply of raw materials from outside the automatic Wei-shaped, separated from the bottom of the barrel and the barrel top stacking. Then automatically install the top of the barrel mouth piece bucket, and automatic sorting into the a crimp assembly machine automatic feeding. The aircraft in this work action according to the particular procedures quickly and accurately.

(2) barrels flanging lap part of the automatic trimming

Flanging at lap of the barrels are part of the extra-thick side of the double-layer, the device can be detected by the automatic detection device, and take rolling and grinding two methods to automatically gum in the police, to achieve the required thickness of the lap, the easy roll package with unified seaming quality.

(3) longitudinal seam welding of the barrel body

This seam welder for improved high efficiency, an hour can produce 700 steel drums.The device has enabled to mount a direct replacement for the original level welding.The barrel body shape after welding remain unchanged, but the quality is stable and can withstand the load from all directions.

(4) composite Monitoring Center

The composite monitoring center for the comprehensive monitoring of the steel drum production process into the ground. It uses computer line monitoring of the operation of each piece of equipment in the production line through the digitization of information processing systems. Using image processing determining intuitive exchange information feedback to the the binary microcomputer system, the information can be processed by a microcomputer to achieve optimum treatment effect.

(5) the level of coating equipment

In order to improve the coating efficiency of the bucket, to improve the coating quality, and can be the site of the unwanted coating left blank, Japan developed a horizontal coating production lines. This is an automated coating switching equipment automatically layered coating to achieve a variety of colors. The equipment developed is designed to reduce labor and improve production efficiency, thereby reducing production costs.

(6) automatically printed version ready

The original drums printed text description using the printed version of the hand-made, complex and cumbersome, and error-prone, difficult to guarantee the quality. Now this problem has been resolved, B the developed computer automatically printed version ready, it can use the keyboard to enter content, and upon request typesetting, and printing can be carried out immediately. Making good the print version is stored in the computer program, the next time you use auto use. The system saves time and effort, all the work can be done under the control of the supervisory procedures are accurate.

(7) steel drums automatic leak detection system

Currently the most widely used steel drums leak detection device is injected into the compressed air to the steel drums coated with soapy water, and then in the seams of the barrel outside to observe whether the bubbles overflow. This method is laborious, time-consuming and difficult to guarantee the quality. Japan developed a new type of automatic leak detection system using flow emission principle made precision air flow transmitter auditory system is able to find a tiny stream overflow. Accurate detection capacity and low cost detection equipment has been applied in production.

(8) warehouse stack

Currently, an efficient stack storage system has been activated, this is a time-saving, labor-saving, space-saving new system. It can automatically regularly layers stack steel drums, steel drums of different sizes can not mix. But it really makes the storage stack to become both simple and effort.

Fourth, the future development of automation

Japan is developed in order to reduce costs and improve quality, state-of-the-art the steel drums automation equipment. Currently, Japan has been made in the development of a variety of projects, effective progress. Extensive cooperation development on these projects and find partners, to be introduced briefly below.

1, the full opening of automated production unit of steel drums

Closed Cylinder automatic production equipment is already mature, but in the full open drums automated production plant is also being developed, the current ongoing automation program preparation, pre soon be completed.

2, automatic printing device

Drums print text and graphics should be completely automatic, so that may save labor, improve quality, improve the working environment. Currently, the automated production of printing on a steel drum barrel top plane has been achieved, but in the body of the steel drum barrel surface printing problems have not been solved satisfactorily. This work has now started to develop.

Mouth piece bucket automatic production line

The mouth piece bucket automatic production line developed mouth piece bucket standardized, automatic installation and automatic cleaning before plating rubber ring device is currently being developed. The original the mouth piece bucket of production need many workers, the new production line will greatly save labor.

4, the optimum welding control

Then automatically adjusted in order to prevent welding defects which cause leakage, Japan, starting from the optimization of the welding conditions, improved welding measures, the automatic monitoring of the various parameters of the welding so that the parameters for feedback with the soldering temperature changes such reactions, .And the introduction of compressed air test at any time, all the processes are carried out in accordance with procedure. This project has a better return on investment.

5, automatic testing equipment for the steel drums

Most of the first steel drums quality check by visual mainly rely on inspectors to check, so inevitably happens undetected. Japan is now being developed by the steel drums of automatic test equipment, using computer control, observation and analysis of image information, the results of its analysis and processing made no mistakes can be reached completion.