The development history of spring coiling machines

Springs are commonly used components in industry. They are used in various products ranging from aircraft and warships to mobile phones and cameras. Therefore, the production of springs has a history of hundreds of years. The original springs were just cylindrical tension and compression springs, which were wound by hand. The technology was relatively immature and the production efficiency was low. It was very difficult to produce large springs on heavy equipment such as trains or tanks.

With the increase in industrial products, spring products have also become richer. Various special-shaped springs such as tower-shaped (commonly known as battery springs) springs, double torsion springs, etc. require conventional manual methods to make a lot of them. Winding molds requires 3 to 8 processes to complete a spring, or even more processes, and the product stability is poor.

With the gradual increase in the amount of springs, a number of companies producing spring equipment have appeared in countries such as Germany and Japan where the industry started first, and the technology related to spring machines has gradually matured. At this time, Germany Equipment manufacturers represented by Wafios are gradually becoming stronger. Several spring machine manufacturers have also appeared in Japan and Taiwan in the Asia-Pacific region. Japan is represented by ITAYA and MEC, and Taiwan is represented by Northeast (EN Qiaoding) and Ziru Behavior. MEC's ??tension and compression spring machines were once known as money printing machines in the spring industry, and Northeast Spring Machinery (EN Qiaoding) in Taiwan is the pioneer of universal spring machines. The founder of the company, Wu Jintu, independently developed it with many years of experience in the spring industry. A new type of universal spring machine was launched, breaking the European and American monopoly on our technology and obtaining invention patents from the United States and Japan. Ziruxing is famous throughout the Asia-Pacific region for its large compression spring machines.

In mainland my country, spring production has been hand-made for a long time. With the accumulation of technology, several manufacturers of spring machines have emerged, with Luoyang Machinery as the representative. In the mid-1990s, Taiwan's Northeastern (EN Qiaoding) spring machines began to be sold domestically, which slowly prospered my country's spring industry and also led to a number of spring machine peripheral equipment manufacturers.----With the With the maturity of spring machine technology, several large-scale spring machine equipment manufacturers have appeared in my country, such as Luoyang Xianheng CNC Machine Tool Co., Ltd., MAX, Jin Yuanfa, Yongteng, etc. Spring machines have now become a popular name, and springs should not only be It is the original kind of spiral, and comes in various shapes---it is called a wire forming machine in the industry.

The richness and precision of springs have also placed higher demands on spring machines. At this time, Germany's WAFIOS, Japan's ITAYA, MEC and other companies have developed various CNC machines based on years of technology accumulation. With multiple models, WAFIOS equipment has always stood at the top of the spring machine industry - mature technology, stable equipment, user-friendly control software, and rich and diverse auxiliary tools. Japan's spring machine equipment relies on the development of Japan's precision industry to develop a variety of precision spring machines that can produce spring products with a wire diameter of 0.03mm, such as a spring stent commonly used in our heart surgery, advanced ball pens, etc. The springs on precision instruments can be produced stably and quickly

In Taiwan, under the leadership of Northeast Spring Machinery, a number of companies producing spring machines have emerged, such as: NUCOIL, HERDON, Xinda, etc. . Compared with the technology of German equipment and the precision of Japanese equipment, Northeastern, the leader in Taiwan, has developed another path: relying on its own technical patent advantages and mastery of spring forming technology, it has brought its traditional model EN502S into full play. Extremely, the molding technology of Wafios has also reduced the machine cost to 1/3~1/2 of the same type of equipment in Japan. Of course, the accuracy is also the best in the industry. A large number of imitators emerged in Taiwan.

Coincidentally, in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions of my country, with the hot sales of spring machines in Northeast China and the technological improvements of Luoyang machines, the domestic spring industry is booming. In the years from the late 1990s to the beginning of the century , the spring machine is a money printing machine~~~Haha, the original words of the spring production boss at that time... Since then, the spring machine has become a hot product, compared with German equipment, it is easily With a price of several million, and Japanese machines starting from 40 to 500 million, Taiwanese equipment manufacturers quickly occupied most of the spring industry in the entire mainland with their ultra-high cost performance, and spring machines in Northeast China have thousands of customers. With the development of the spring industry, a large number of spring machine manufacturers have appeared in my country's Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta like the communications industry. Their imitation and plagiarism speed is very fast, even worse than that of mobile phones. They Compared with Northeast, Xinda, NUCOIL, MAX and other large-scale manufacturers, the price of their equipment is low, even less than half the price. The stability of the equipment is poor, and the after-sales service cannot keep up... However, there are also several companies with technology and customers. As a leading enterprise, it gradually provides high-quality and low-cost equipment to spring manufacturers. The technical accumulation of spring coiling machines has gradually matured. Each equipment manufacturer has established its own professional R&D department and even cooperated with some professional wire forming companies. Universities and research institutes in the field jointly develop the latest equipment. The combination of the latest equipment technology and the latest control technology of WAFIOS, the leader of German spring machines, has reached an unparalleled height. The equipment has a unique operating control system and an exclusive patented structure. , it can be called the Mercedes-Benz S600 or BMW 7 Series among spring machines. In Japan, companies represented by MEC and ITAYA have raised the precision of equipment to a new standard, and have also developed many special auxiliary devices for their own equipment, which are flexible and convenient to use.

In addition to the well-known old enterprises Dongbei and Ziruxing, several companies in Taiwan, the birthplace of spring machines in my country, have also developed NUCOIL, Herdon, etc. bought a variety of their own devices. In order to facilitate after-sales and be close to customers, Northeast Spring Machinery established branches and offices in mainland China around 2000. In the name of Qiaoding and Changjin, it directly occupied the spring production bases in the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta. It also based on the original basis based on customer requirements. We have developed a variety of machine models based on demand feedback, and developed some special industry equipment for specific customers, filling the gaps in the domestic industry, and are still constantly improving according to customer needs. If Northeastern is the pioneer of universal machines, then NUCOIL and HERDON are latecomers. A multi-functional 21-axis spring machine developed by NUCOIL won praise from the world industry at the German equipment exhibition, and HERDON also won praise from the world within a few years. It has developed almost a full range of equipment, which is exported to Eastern Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. In the mainland, Luoyang Xianheng CNC Machine Tool Co., Ltd., MAX, JYF, Yongteng, etc. have also developed equipment with their own characteristics, and they all have a place in the industry. Those large numbers of imitators and plagiarists, just like the communications and mobile phone industry, will be gradually eliminated from the mainstream market.

It is rumored that in order to compete with the Northeast for the mainland and Asia-Pacific markets, some manufacturers in Japan and Taiwan will also set up branches and even engineering R&D departments in the mainland. If the news is reliable, this will be an impact on the coil spring machine industry. This is a good thing. It will definitely promote the technological upgrading of my country's spring machine industry and provide more high-quality and low-cost equipment for the majority of spring manufacturers. The wire feeding frame is also an indispensable part of the spring coiling machine. Its speed can be adjusted at will; it will automatically stop and alarm when a fault occurs; the processing machine downtime can be set.