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The answer is 3D printing will not replace CNC machining in the foreseeable future.

The reason is they actually have different purposes which complement each other.

3d printing vs cnc machining china

3D PRINTING
3D printing is a form of add-on or additive manufacturing.

It makes use of parts being produced layer by layer with substances such as plastic or metal powders, plastic filaments or resins.

Its energy source is either a laser or a heated extruder which creates decks or layers of these materials by solidifying them to finally form the finished part.

The joy of 3D printing is in your ability to create freedom of shape, its accuracy, speed, and its ability to cut on costs and to decrease the weight of certain parts.

It is also applicable in several industries.

3D printing has various advantages over traditional printing but its technology has not yet been developed for mass production.

CNC MACHINING
CNC machining represents subtractive manufacturing.

Theoretically: this means to deduct from an original piece.

The process starts with a block of material (called a blank);

Then;

CNC machining starts to cut away material until the finished part is created.

Cutters and spinning tools are important parts of the procedure to shape and mold the original piece.

Somewhat like sculpture or pottery.

CNC machining is best for low to mid volume production and has splendid dimensional accuracy.

It works well with many materials including wood, metals, and plastics.

CNC stands for Computer Numerical Control.

WHAT 3D PRINTING AND CNC MACHINING HAVE IN COMMON?

Both are compatible with a wide variety of materials.

These include plastics and metals.

China 3D printing Is more adaptable to plastics like ABS, nylon, polycarbonate. and acrylic for now;

but some companies have sought to introduce technology that will allow more usage of metals in 3D printing.

Some advanced 3D printers have the capacity for jobs on sand and ceramics.

CNC machining is more in tune with metals;

especially aluminum, stainless steel and titanium,

but companies have also sought the adaptability of plastics to CNC machining.

3D PRINTING AND CNC MACHINING WORK TOGETHER

There are materials such as super alloys or TPU (flexible material) which cannot be made with CNC milling,Cnc Turning,etc

but should be created with 3D printing.

After the super alloy has been produced, the deductive or sculpting magic of CNC will then work its way through the material.

CAN WE COMBINE THE TWO?
Yes.

There are companies now that are attempting to merge the great qualities of 3D printing and CNC machining into one dual purpose

equipment.

The Zmorph 2.0 SX is introduced as a CNC equipment but is also a 3D printer.

It has 3 axes and a print head because of its interchangeable heads.

Then there is Mooz which is marketed as a 3 in 1 3D printer.

THE FUTURE

3D printing is simpler.

No operator is required when the file is prepared, and the part orientation, fill and supports are executed.

CNC machining needs a skilled machinist to choose usage of tools.

cutting path, and repositioning of the material.

CNC machining requires cleanup after use because it cuts and sculpts away from the material until the desired form is established.

Whereas 3D printing doesn’t leave any mess behind because all the parts created are needed because they are all new productions.

Both 3D printing and CNC machining will be here to stay.

The former is in the creation of new products (additive property);

while the latter is in the creation of something out of something.

3D printing is more proficient with plastics. sand and ceramics while CNC machining does wonders with both stainless steel or metals.

Technology will keep in evolving until the two technologies will be merged and they will be adaptable to mass production.

The two processes now are just confined to low and mid production projects.

But the future of SLS 3D printing or fdm 3d printing or SLM 3D Printing is much brighter because costs from its operations have become even cheaper than third world cheap labor.

And the expenses keep decreasing with the potential of a 3D printer in most homes in the not so distant future.

3D printing can also make the costs of commercial goods much cheaper because it can create duplicates of these products.

Thus, it has become competition.

1. Summary

CMC has properties of thickening, bonding, dispersing, suspending, homogenization, emulsifying and stabilizing in the cosmetics industry, so CMC can be applied in any skincare cream, skin whitening cream, face powder, depilatory cream, sunscreen cream, shampoo, shower gel, facial mask, lipstick, and other cosmetics.

As the cmc china chemical, CMC can be absorbed by the skin to prevent dry skin. Form soft and elastic film to protect the skin.

2. Some Detailed Prescriptions of CommonCMCCosmetics

2.1 Lotion: Use 1.5% CMC (FH9), 5% beta-cyclodextrin hydrate, 15 liquid paraffin wax, 5% glycerol. Add proper protective agents and perfume. Then mix with distilled water into 100%. Such lotion is good cosmetics and very stable.

2.2 Almond Cream: Use 1.3% CMC (FH9), 9.9% almond oil, 0.2% bitter almond oil, 0.8% geranium oil. 90% ethanol. Add a moderate protective agent and perfume. Mix them evenly. Then use distilled water to 100%, Such almond cream can protect the skin well with the function of anti-wrinkle.

2.3 Lipstick: CMC is featured by pigment suspending and dispersing. It can bind other raw materials, to distribute the raw materials uniformly.

Dosage: 0.5%-1.0%. Can use model FH9.

2.4 Royal Jelly Facial Mask: Royal jelly is a precious natural tonic. It can stimulate gonadal activity and body disease resistance ability. Have a special protective effect on the skin. Add CMC into a mask that can evenly distribute raw materials. Strengthen the function of moisturizing skin. Good film-forming character.

Prescription: 2% CMC (FH9), 1% sodium alginate, 5% poly(ethylene glycol), 1% carbomer 940, 1.5% polyoxyethylene lauryl ether, 10% ethanol, 0.5% triethanolamine, 5% glycerol, 0.5% royal jelly, 73.5% refined water, moderate preservative.

2.5 Shampoo: Mixing CMC with fatty acid ethanolamine or 2,2'-iminodiethanol can form a film around the hair. Has the finishing effect.

Typical Formulation: 2.5% CMC (FH9), 10% propylene glycol (plasticizer), 44.6% water, triethanolamine, 20% sodium dodecyl sulfate (cleaning agent), sorbitol, 3% polyethylene oxide (adjustment), 2% sodium stearate (brightener), 0.8% coloring, perfume and moderate preservative.

The company is located at Jining City Shandong Province, with 160 employees, $20 million assets and an area of 18 acres. Now the production capacity for CMC has reached 20,000 tons per year. 40 years of practice and improvement enable our company to make CMC with higher purity (99.5%), higher viscosity (10000mPa.s above) and a higher degree of substitution (greater than 1.2).

Fortune Biotech, as a leading global supplier and carboxymethyl cellulose factory, has engaged in production, development, and marketing of Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) and Polyanionic Cellulose (PAC) for over 40 years. More than 3000 customers in 60 countries and regions have applied our products in their applications in food, pharmaceutical, paper making, ceramics, textile dyeing, daily chemicals, new energy, and oil drilling industries. Our safe and high-quality cmc chemical china have supported their endeavor to improve people's life.

Yiheda Automation R & D team can provide you with professional solutions, we have developed many China automatic production line for different industries, such as automatic assembly, automatic welding, visual inspection, laser marking, robot integeration, recording and traceability and other custom machine.

WHY AUTOMATION?

Automation can be defined as the technology by which a process or procedure is performed without human assistance.

In other words, automated manufacturing systems technology, is the use of various control systems for operating equipment such as machinery, processes in factories, boilers and heat treating ovens, switching on telephone networks, steering and stabilization of ships, aircraft and other applications and vehicles with minimal or reduced human intervention. Some processes have been completely automated.

Why is automation so widely used today?

1. Improving efficiency and control quality

Most of mechanical automation devices are able to automatically process and control the information, they are more sensitive, accurate and wider than manual in inspection area. The automatic control system makes sure that the execution of mechanism is conform to the design, which will be not affected by operators. Thus the production efficiency and quality can be ensured indirectly. For example, the CNC machine is mare stable and its production efficiency is 2 to 6 times of the ordinary machine; if the machine is equipped with flexible manufacturing system the utilization can make 1.2 to 3.2 times better, the number of machine tools can be reduced by 20%, the manpower can be reduced by 20%, the lead time can be reduced by 40% and the cost can be reduced by 20%. Besides, the mechanical automation devices can be adjusted by programming, so they are especially suitable for the production of multi-variety and small-batch products. In general, they are the good method for manufacturers to shorten the product development cycle and accelerate the upgrade.

2. Improving the production safety and reliability

Mechanical automation devices generally can automatically self-monitor, self-alarm, self-diagnosis, self-protect. When devices overload, overpressure, overcurrent, short circuit and meet other power failure during running, they will automatically start the protection program which will avoid accidents and improve the safety. Mechanical automation devices is consist of many electronic components, which reduce the movable components and wear parts, then they are more sensitivity and reliable, thus the failure rate is reduced and service life is longer.

3. Easy to adjust and maintain

The mechanical automation devices is adjustable by programming to meet various requirements and no need to change any components and parts. If the devices can memorize data, engineers can design several kinds of program and input in the devices, then the devices can change the execution base on different products and programs. Automated inspection and automatic monitoring of mechanical automation devices can automatically prevent failures in the working process and self-restore. Since the widespread adoption of program control and digital display in mechanical automation devices, the operation buttons and handle are reduced, so the operation is more convenient and simple. The motion of the mechanical automation devices is controlled by electronic control system, so they can recently complete all motions. The advanced mechanical automation devices can automatically optimize the operation base on the mathematical model of products and the change of the external parameters.

4. With compound function and widely applicable

Mechanical automation devices are compound and widely applicable, which get rid of the restriction of single function and technology of mechanical and electrical products. The automation level of them is improved greatly. The flexible and intelligent mechanical automation devices can automatically control, compensate, calibrate, adjust and protect themselves, so they can be applied to different occasions and different fields, to meet different requirements.

5. Improving working conditions

Mechanical automation devices are knowledge-intensive and technology-intensive. High level of automation can reduce labor intensity, prompt the factory automation, office automation, agricultural automation, transportation, automation, and even home automation.

Non-standard automation equipment industry as a whole presents an obvious upward trend, that is, non-standard automation equipment market has broad space, and even some traditional industries may become the most potential market. However, the number of non-standard enterprises in China is relatively large; the scale is small; the technology is backward; competition homogeneity is also obvious shortcomings, and in this field there is a gap of at least 10 years with developed countries. New non-standard automation equipment is often mechanics equipment, making full use of the latest achievements of information technology. Designers in some Chinese enterprises are not familiar with the products, dare not or will not choose them, which greatly limits the improvement of the level. Many core technologies are not really independent, and it is obviously difficult to reduce the cost of importing equipment. At present, high-end products, such as industrial robots and servo motors, are still mainly imported from abroad.

Although the non-standard automation equipment industry as a whole presents an obvious trend, the market space of non-standard automation equipment is vast, and even some traditional industries may become the biggest market potential. However, with the growth of similar enterprises in China, the proportion of non-standard automation products produced in China is steadily increasing.

Yiheda Automation R & D team can provide you with professional solutions, we have developed many machines for different industries, such as automatic assembly, automatic welding, visual inspection, laser marking, robot integeration, recording and traceability and other custom machine. We also have the advanced automated manufacturing systems technology.

Robot Feeding Application

Full automatic feeding machine, can automatic identify the defective product in key assembly station and discharge it. Improved the production efficiency and decreased the labor cost.

Substitute for man

3

Capacity upgrading

99%

Advantage promotion

99%

Return cycle

8

Automatic Assembly

Yiheda has many years of experience in developing automated assembly machine. The Automated assembly machine and assembly systems can help you deliver a new product to the marketplace in a short time.

Automatic Welding

Yiheda automatic welding machines are much faster than skillful human welders can ever hope to be, and produce decent workmanship despite their greater speed. An automatic welder is roughly eight times faster than a manual welder.

Visual Inspection

Visual inspection is simple and less technologically advanced compared to other methods. Compared to other methods, it is far more cost effective and is one of the easiest inspection techniques to perform.

Laser Marking

Yiheda automatic laser marking machines adapt with various lasers and powers and thus always allow the most economical and optimal configuration for the application in question.

Recording and Traceability

The Recording and Traceability system has been widely used in various industries. It is actually a kind of production control system that can carry out forward, reverse or non-directional tracking of products.

Conveying

Conveyors are machines which carry products from one place to another. There are a large number of different types of conveyor, designed to convey different types of product or to perform particular tasks.

Dongguan Yiheda Automation Co.,Ltd, established in 2010, is an expert custom automation company, specializes in designing and manufacturing the custom automation solution to customers. If you are looking for automatic production machines, just contact us!

Main Parameters

1. Capacity: 65-85pcs/min
2. Wire diameter: Φ0.5-1.8mm
3. Space required: 8m(L)*2m(w)
4. Total power: 5.95KW
5. Suitable material: Galvanized wire
6. Current source: 380V,3P,50HZ
7. Dimension: 5000x1200x1700 mm
8. Weight: 2500Kg

Details or Advantage

1. CANDID safety pin manufacturing machine has a reversible safety cover which can protect the operator when the machine is running. Meanwhile, it is convenient for an operator to operate and maintain the equipment.
2. Our molds adopt tungsten carbide and high-quality Alloyed Steel, to make sure that they have longer operation life, with high output and more efficient.
3. CANDID safety pin making machine has a fully automatic vibrating plate, the safety pin caps can automatically fall from the vibrating plate one by one. So it reduces the workload of the operator and increases the capacity.

Description

Safety pin is a small and useful tool which were invented 4000 years ago. It is used for connecting small things with clothes, like brand mark, handkerchief, and decoration. Safety pin has different material, such as steel wire, PVC, Galvanized wire and so on. And according to the usage, the size of safety pins are different as well.

CANDID safety pin making machine is suitable for making various types of safety pin with Nickel steel wire or galvanized steel wire as raw material. The whole production line has four machines: Wire straightening and cutting machine, Wire sharpening machine, Cap making machine and Safety pin assembly machine. The cap making machine can produce 2 pcs of cap at the same time, greatly increased the capacity. We can design safety pin making machine according to different customer's requests. The safety pin assembly machine adopts belt + bearing transmission, we increase the diameter of bearing to make it more efficient and save energy. Besides, the machine is equipped with a reversible safety cover and has stable performance, low noise, and high efficiency.

CANDID safety pin making machine has already exported to many countries, such as Vietnam, India, Russia, Nepal, Algeria and so on. CANDID is not just selling eraser machine, we also provide good service. If our customers have any problem, we will try our best to solve it. Each customer is very satisfied with our machine quality and CANDID service.

Automated Manufacturing Line Science Popularization

(1)The meaning of automated manufacturing line: A number of active machine tools placed in the order of certain skills, combined with workpiece transmission equipment and control system, according to the production rhythm of the rules, the workpiece actively and sequentially passes through each processing station for active processing of the connecting line.

(2)Composition of the automated manufacturing line: Active production line is composed of the main machine, transmission system, control system, etc. In the meantime, the workpiece conveying system of the main line usually includes machine tool loading and unloading equipment, conveying equipment and storage equipment. The control system of the active line is mainly used to ensure the machine tool and workpiece transmission system in the line, as well as the normal operation of auxiliary equipment in accordance with the regular operation cycle and interlocking requirements, and equipped with problem detection equipment and signal equipment.

• Advantages of automated manufacturing line: Selecting active line in mass and mass production can improve labor productivity, stabilize and improve commodity quality, improve working conditions, reduce production area, reduce the production cost, shorten the production cycle, ensure production balance and have obvious economic benefits.

Safety Matters Needing Attention in Machine Automated Manufacturing Line

1. Pay attention to the clamping force not too large (avoid damage)

Automated manufacturing line for machine processing mostly adopts the automatic design. When using it, we should pay attention to choosing appropriate clamping force according to the different types of materials, and not set too much tightening force. This may damage some of the processing materials, especially the surface of the bar.

2. Pay attention to the opening and closing range not too small (make the work more convenient)

Generally, the opening and closing range of automatic manufacturing line are moderate, but if the space environment permits, the opening and closing range can be increased as far as possible. Especially when taking large volume materials, we can adjust the opening range in advance to make it more accurate.

3. Be careful not to move too fast (avoid vibration)

In the use of a machine-automated manufacturing line, its operation stability should be the basic premise. If the size of the object is large, or because of other factors such as too fast running speed, the overall stability of the equipment will be reduced, which may cause a vibration of the machine-processed automated manufacturing line arm and reduce its grasping accuracy.

4. Note that sliding does not conform to shutdown (avoid affecting operation)

Machining automated manufacturing line work environment is more complex, and some materials are small in size, easy to enter the equipment to affect the operation of the equipment. Therefore, if there is slippage or obvious abnormal noise in the automatic manufacturing line of the feeding and unloading machine, the machine should be stopped immediately to check and prevent further damage to it.