Can intelligent upgrades enable culvert pipe making machines to "smartly" build future infrastructure?

In recent years, with increased national investment in "new infrastructure" and water conservancy projects, demand for culvert pipe making machines, a key building material, has continued to rise. Traditional culvert pipe making machines rely on manual operation, leading to increasingly prominent issues such as low efficiency and poor precision. The industry is undergoing a "smart transformation." A new generation of pipe making machines, incorporating PLC control systems and automatic winding technology, automates the entire process from feeding, welding, to forming. This improves pipe compressive strength by over 20% and increases daily production capacity by nearly one-third.

At a building materials company in Zhejiang, the implementation of intelligent culvert pipe making machines has reduced workshop labor by 40%, while enabling 24-hour uninterrupted production. "We used to produce a maximum of 30 sections of culvert pipe a day, but now we produce over 40, with a consistently high yield rate of over 99%," said the workshop manager. "This is crucial for meeting large project orders."

Experts point out that intelligentization is not just about equipment upgrades; it's also an opportunity for industry reshuffle. Over the next three years, pipe-making machines with remote operation and maintenance and adaptive adjustment capabilities will become mainstream in the market. This technological revolution is quietly reshaping the value chain of culvert pipe manufacturing.