2025 | Professional

French Design Awards Silver Winner

Automated Coating Control System for Eco-Friendly Panels

Entrant Company

Wuxi Xindonghu Wood Industry Co.,Ltd.-Yao Xiaojuan

Category

Conceptual Design - Technology

Client's Name

Country / Region

China

The Automated Coating Control System for Eco-Friendly Panels achieves precision control over panel coating thickness, spraying speed, drying temperature and humidity, and coating material consumption by integrating high-precision sensors, automatic spray-painting robotic arms, intelligent drying equipment, and big data-based optimization algorithms.
The system enables real-time collection of production line data and dynamically adjusts spraying parameters through machine learning and intelligent control algorithms. This not only ensures uniform coatings and stable adhesion but also reduces the impact of environmental factors on coating quality, thereby realizing full-process automated and intelligent management. Simultaneously, the system is optimized for the environmental performance of eco-friendly wood panels, effectively controlling formaldehyde emissions and VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) releases. It reduces formaldehyde emissions to ≤0.5 mg/L and cuts VOC emissions by approximately 30%, allowing the product’s health and safety performance to meet internationally advanced standards.
The traditional eco-friendly wood panel coating industry is commonly plagued by issues such as uneven coating thickness, high rework rates, low production efficiency, and difficulty meeting environmental standards. Manual operations rely heavily on worker experience, making it hard to stably control coating quality—additionally, problems like solvent volatilization and excessive energy consumption are prominent.
This automated control system, however, effectively addresses these industry pain points through intelligent control and automated management. It not only reduces coating thickness deviation from the traditional ±12–15% to ±3% but also boosts production efficiency by 25% and saves approximately 15% in coating and solvent consumption. After adopting this system, enterprises see a significant drop in product surface defect rates, a notable reduction in formaldehyde and VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) emissions, and a marked improvement in the environmental safety of their wood panels. In terms of production efficiency, material utilization, product consistency, and environmental health performance, the system far outperforms traditional manual or semi-automatic spraying methods, establishing itself as a pioneering representative of technological advancement in the field of eco-friendly wood panel coating automation.

Credits

Chief Designer
Yao Xiaojuan
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