Key Points for Improving the Efficiency of Brick Production Lines

Key Points for Improving the Efficiency of Brick Production Lines

I. Raw Material Handling

* **Classification and Pre-homogenization:** Separately store and pre-treat different raw materials (cement, sand, waste residue) to ensure batch stability.

* **Precise Automated Batching:** Use electronic metering equipment to reduce human error and establish a standard mix proportion library.

* **Optimized Mixing:** Employ a three-stage mixing process (dry mixing-wet mixing-resting) to ensure uniform mixing.

II. Molding and Pressing

* **Parameter Standardization:** Set optimal pressure, vibration time, and other parameters for different brick types and strictly adhere to them.

* **Enhanced Mold Maintenance:** Regularly inspect and maintain molds to ensure accurate brick dimensions and easy demolding.

* **Reduce Handling Damage:** Use mechanical transfer between key processes to avoid damage caused by manual handling.

III. Curing Optimization (Core Efficiency)

* **Controlled Curing Environment:** Construct curing sheds and control temperature (15-25℃) and humidity (initially >90%).

* **Promoted Steam Curing:** Replace some natural curing with steam curing, significantly shortening the strength attainment period from 28 days to 7-10 days. Optimize stacking and transportation: Use pallets and forklifts, implement "first-in, first-out" (FIFO) to reduce damage and chaos.

IV. Process and Quality Management

Balance production cycle time: Identify and improve bottleneck processes such as mixing and molding to ensure smooth workflow.

Establish key control points: Set up checkpoints in batching, molding, and curing processes to achieve full-process quality monitoring.

Establish a continuous improvement mechanism: Record production data, analyze problems regularly, and encourage small improvements.

V. Expected Results and Recommendations

Results: Expected to increase production efficiency by over 20%, improve product qualification rate, shorten curing cycle, and reduce overall costs.

Recommendations: Start with the bottlenecks that most affect efficiency and make gradual improvements, value the experience of frontline employees, and use data-driven decision-making.

The core idea is: to systematically improve the efficiency and quality of the entire chain through raw material standardization, production parameterization, scientific curing, and process collaboration.