Trolley Factory Tour
Logistics Trolley & Storage Rack Production in Changshu
Every photo below was taken inside the Ping Fang trolley factory in Shanghu Town, Changshu,
along the same route a customer factory audit follows.
Factory Route
THE AUDIT ROUTE THROUGH OUR TROLLEY FACTORY
The photos follow five stops between the front gate and the office building, in the order an auditor walks them rather than as a loose photo collection. Each photo can be enlarged with a click.
Into the Main Fabrication Hall
The route starts in the main hall of our metal fabrication factory, just inside the front gate of the 27,076 m² plant, which is one of three production bases.
Cutting & Stamping
Trolley manufacturing starts here, where laser-cut blanks and stamped parts keep the parts of every frame identical before welding.
One Batch of Stamped Parts
This is what batch stability looks like on the floor, with hundreds of zinc-plated stampings that are interchangeable with each other.
Engineering & Order Support
Drawings are checked and orders are tracked in these offices, with a sample roll cage standing beside the desks.
Inside the Office Building
The offices and meeting rooms of the last stop are where audits are reviewed with visitors at the end of a visit.
Equipment
PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT REGISTER
The list below covers the machines on our trolley manufacturing and rack production lines, with the key specification of each and the year it entered service.
Automatic robot welding machinesCore Capability
18 sets, 20 Panasonic welding arms
Two robot welding workshops were built with a 10-million-RMB investment, so the weld joints on cages and racks stay consistent from batch to batch.
Since 2008
Plate laser cutting machine
6,000 W
Cuts sheet blanks for decks, panels and brackets with clean edges and repeatable dimensions.
Since 2022
Pipe laser cutting machine
3,000 W
Cuts tube for trolley and rack frames, and was part of the 2022 investment made to keep product quality more stable.
Since 2022
Automatic painting line
Powder coating finishes
Coats racks and frames on a continuous line, matched to indoor, outdoor and heavy-duty use.
Since 2008
Sand blasting machines
Surface pre-treatment
Steel is blasted clean before coating, so the finish bonds to bare metal instead of mill scale.
In service
Packing assembly lines
Fit, function-test, pack flat
Casters, hinges and mesh panels are fitted and tested, and products are packed to fit as many units as possible into each 40HQ container.
In service
Every machine on this register can be checked in person, and visitors on a factory audit can count them on the floor.
Investments
THREE INVESTMENTS BEHIND THE EQUIPMENT REGISTER
The machines above were not bought at once. Three investments made decades apart decide what an auditor counts on the floor today.
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1984
The founding workshop
Ping Fang started in 1984 as a small workshop in Changshu with six employees, four decades before the machines listed above, and grew from there into the metal fabrication factory shown on this page.
Started with5,000 RMB capital
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2008
Robot welding and spray painting workshops
Two robot welding workshops with 20 Panasonic arms and a spray painting workshop entered service together, so weld geometry no longer varied from welder to welder. These are rows 01 and 04 of the equipment register.
Invested10 million RMB
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2022
Laser cutting for plate and tube
Plate and pipe laser cutting machines were added to bring more stable product quality, and frame parts now reach the welding robots cut to identical dimensions. These are rows 02 and 03 of the equipment register.
Installed6,000 W and 3,000 W lasers
Factory Visits
BOOK A FACTORY AUDIT IN CHANGSHU
Photos give a first look, and a visit shows the rest. The plant is in Shanghu Town, Changshu, close to Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta ports, so an audit of the trolley factory fits easily into a sourcing trip. Visitors walk the same route as this page, count the machines and meet the engineers who will handle their order.
How a Factory Visit Runs
A visit is arranged in three steps, and the photo route on this page is the route you will walk.
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Book the date by email
The technical sales team confirms a slot within 24 hours on working days after you send your dates and the products you buy.
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We set the tour route
Before you arrive, the five stops on this page are arranged around the workshops your order would actually run through.
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Verify on the floor
On the floor you can walk the line, count the machines against the equipment register above and inspect batch components straight off the press.