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August 20.2025

Woodworking Planer/Thicknesser Integrated Control Solution

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Project Background

As a core piece of equipment in modern wood processing, the development of woodworking planers is rooted in the global transformation and upgrading of the timber processing industry. With the acceleration of construction industrialization and the surge in demand for personalized home furnishings, traditional wood processing methods face dual challenges of efficiency and precision. Driven by the "Made in China 2025" and "Dual Carbon" strategies, the woodworking machinery industry is undergoing a profound transformation from labor-intensive to intelligent and green practices. Currently, the high-end custom furniture market is experiencing an annual growth rate of over 15%, and the demand for wooden components for prefabricated buildings is surging. These trends directly drive market demand for high-precision planing equipment. Simultaneously, with the penetration of German Industry 4.0 technologies, the digitalization level of woodworking machinery has significantly improved. The application of technologies like intelligent sensing and adaptive control has pushed machining accuracy beyond ±0.1mm. Increasingly stringent environmental policies prompt equipment manufacturers to continuously innovate in areas such as noise reduction, dust removal, and waste recycling, with international standards like the EU CE certification becoming industry entry barriers. Although core components still partially rely on imports, domestic enterprises have made breakthrough progress in key areas such as CNC systems and servo drives. The industry is currently in a critical period of transition from traditional machinery to intelligent equipment, providing vast development space for companies with technological innovation capabilities.

 
 
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Efficient and Reliable Professional Solution
The woodworking planer's control system is constructed using FATEK series industrial automation products, forming a complete automated solution. The system core employs the FBs-32MAT-AC programmable logic controller (PLC), which features a 32-point I/O configuration and integrated 4-axis 200kHz high-speed pulse output, providing the equipment with stable logic control and precise motion control capabilities. The human-machine interface (HMI) utilizes the FATEK P5 series touch screen, which communicates with the PLC in real-time via Ethernet to achieve functions such as machining parameter setting, operational status monitoring, and fault alarm display.
The motion control system adopts the FATEK SC3 series servo drive system, comprising servo drives, servo motors, and matching encoders to form closed-loop control, ensuring high precision in cutter shaft rotation and feed motion. The platform's reciprocating motion is driven by a DC motor, with position feedback provided by an optical encoder, and speed regulation is achieved through the PLC's PWM output.
 
 
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FATEK Makes You Stand Out

► Exceptional Cost-Effectiveness
Utilizes carefully selected FATEK core control systems (PLC, HMI, Servo Drive), ensuring stable equipment operation while achieving optimal cost control. This makes it particularly suitable for the investment budgets and production needs of small and medium-sized processing enterprises.

► Integrated Intelligent Control
Adopts PLCs, servo systems, and human-machine interfaces from the same brand to achieve perfect compatibility, completely eliminating communication barriers between multi-brand equipment. This significantly simplifies the debugging process and improves daily maintenance efficiency by over 30%.

► Precision Motion Control
Equipped with the high-performance SC3 servo system, it achieves micron-level motion accuracy and millisecond-level dynamic response, ensuring the stability and consistency of the planing feed. This significantly improves processing yield and production efficiency.

► User-Friendly Operation Experience
Features the P5 series intelligent HMI with an intuitive graphical interface and hierarchical menu design, making parameter settings clear at a glance. Real-time fault diagnosis information is displayed, enabling new employees to operate independently within 30 minutes.

► Harsh Environment Adaptability
With industrial-grade protection design (PLC noise immunity up to ±2000V, HMI protection rating of IP65), it easily handles the harsh conditions common in woodworking workshops, such as dust, humidity, and electromagnetic interference, ensuring long-term and reliable equipment operation.

► Flexible Expansion Capability
The PLC comes with abundant reserved I/O expansion interfaces, supporting the subsequent addition of various sensors, safety devices, or functional modules. This meets the needs of enterprise capacity upgrades and process improvements, extending equipment service life by 50%.

► Superior Operational Reliability
Employs intelligent协同 control between the servo system and DC motor, coupled with precision guiding mechanisms. This ensures the work platform maintains its factory precision even after hundreds of thousands of reciprocating movements, with an annual average failure rate of less than 0.5%.

 
 
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