According to our company’s introduction of the TSZX-1 roller shaft CNC automated production line, the launch of this product primarily targets the following pain points in the traditional roller shaft manufacturing industry and addresses them specifically through its technological solution:
1. Low production efficiency and excessive reliance on manual labor
Pain point: The traditional production process for conveyor roller shafts is fragmented, requiring dedicated personnel for each stage, resulting in high labor input. Moreover, there are waiting periods between stages, which significantly lowers overall production efficiency and limits capacity.
Solution: The production line adopts a modular design that integrates the entire process—from sawing, milling grooves, chamfering flat ends, to drilling—enabling single-operator control and full-process automation. By using a “translating robotic arm assembly,” workpieces are automatically picked up, transferred, and positioned, eliminating idle time between processes and boosting daily output to ≥500 units, thereby increasing production efficiency several times over.
2. Unstable machining accuracy and poor product consistency.
Pain point: Relying on manual or semi-automatic equipment for processing often leads to errors in critical dimensions (such as length and groove-flat positioning), making it difficult to ensure high precision and consistency across batch-produced items, thereby affecting the final assembly quality of rollers and the smooth operation of the equipment.
Solution: All core equipment along the entire production line adopts servo motor CNC and PLC-based digital control. For example, in the sawing process, “servo motor CNC fixed-length feeding” and, in the end-face chamfering process, “fully CNC machining” ensure that critical dimensional errors are strictly controlled within ±0.05 millimeters. The application of hydraulic clamping systems and patented technologies—such as the “anti-iron-chip entanglement” technology—further guarantees the stability of the machining process and the consistent precision of the final products.
3. Single functionality and poor equipment flexibility.
Pain point: A single-function machine tool cannot meet the diverse processing requirements for roller shafts (such as varying diameters and lengths, as well as the need to simultaneously perform multiple processes like milling grooves, flattening, and drilling). Purchasing multiple specialized machine tools, on the other hand, is costly and requires a large amount of floor space.
Solution: The production line features a wide processing range (diameter Φ20–50 mm, length 270–2200 mm). Key equipment is designed to be multi-functional and composite; for example, the “roller shaft milling and grooving special machine” can complete the machining of double grooves or double flats at both ends in a single operation, while the “roller shaft flat-end chamfering and slotting CNC machine tool” can automatically and fully complete the machining of flat end faces, chamfers, and grooves on both ends in one step. This design enhances the production line’s adaptability and flexibility, while reducing equipment investment.
4. High overall manufacturing costs
Pain points: High labor costs, high acquisition and maintenance costs for multiple pieces of equipment, and material waste and rework costs caused by precision issues—all these factors collectively drive up overall manufacturing costs.
Solution: By using a single operator, labor costs are significantly reduced; high-precision machining minimizes material waste; and the modular, cost-effective design—highlighted in the text by the statement that the translational robotic arm “has low costs and industry-leading cost-effectiveness”—lowers both initial investment and maintenance complexity. Ultimately, this approach achieves the comprehensive goal of “reducing costs, improving quality, and enhancing efficiency,” thereby boosting the company’s competitiveness.
The core value of the TSTX-1 production line from Shanxi Gude Baofeng Heavy Industry Machinery Co., Ltd. lies in directly addressing the four major pain points in the traditional roller shaft manufacturing industry: low production efficiency, difficult precision control, insufficient equipment flexibility, and high overall costs. By integrating automation, CNC technology, modularity, and patented innovations, this line offers a comprehensive solution that is highly precise, highly efficient, and cost-effective—aiming to help enterprises achieve innovation and upgrading of their production models.