Mattress Production Equipment at CIFF Shanghai: Pocket Spring Machines, Smart Spring Adjustment Systems, AI Robotic Glue Spraying Lines | Lianrou Machinery

Date：2026-09-05

Lianrou Machinery Makes a Splash at Shanghai CIFF with Latest Mattress Manufacturing Equipment, Digital Workshop Layout Solutions, and SMARTLINE Intelligent Production Collaboration System

On September 5, the four-day China International Furniture Fair (CIFF) grandly opened at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai Hongqiao). As a 28-year industry leader in upholstered furniture and intelligent home equipment, Lianrou Machinery, grounded in global trends in smart home manufacturing, unveiled a comprehensive three-in-one service system at Booth 8.1S05—featuring automated production equipment, innovative R&D achievements in pocket spring mattress cores, SMARTLINE Intelligent Production Collaboration System with digital customization, and holistic layout solutions for digital smart workshops. The showcase delivered a stunning technology feast, steering the upholstered furniture industry toward Industry 4.0's advanced digital, intelligent, and flexible transformation.

On the opening day, Lianrou's booth drew significant attention, attracting a host of renowned upholstered furniture brands, manufacturing executives, R&D teams, and industry investors from both home and abroad. The on-site technical team delivered in-depth presentations and impressive demonstrations, earning high praise from visitors and sparking strong cooperation intentions.

Efficiency First: Intensive Workshop Smart Manufacturing Solutions

As extensive, labor-intensive production models are rapidly being phased out, refined, intelligent, flexible, and intensive manufacturing has become the core trend in the global furniture industry. Driven by industry demand, Lianrou Machinery has developed the fully automatic mattress production line featuring AI vision-guided robotic glue spraying and palletizing, effectively solving challenges such as low production efficiency, weak coordination, and high upgrade costs faced by furniture manufacturers. This production line deeply integrates cutting-edge technologies—including modular customization, PUR intelligent glue spraying, AI vision control, and six-axis robotics—to break down the traditional barriers of isolated equipment, fragmented data, and disjointed processes. It highly consolidates three workstations for compound assembly of mattress materials (foam/latex/fabric layers), one turnover station for mattress core flipping, and one palletizing station. The line eliminates the need for eight manual operators while achieving a daily output of over 1,500 mattresses, maximizing productivity with better space utilization and lower labor costs, empowering manufacturers to reduce costs and boost efficiency.

Upgraded Innovations: Mattress Manufacturing Equipment

The newly upgraded smart spring adjustment system is equipped with capabilities for "data acquisition, anomaly detection, and intelligent correction." Featuring high-precision sensors, it enables real-time data collection and intelligent monitoring of spring production. The moment any dimensional anomaly is detected, the system instantly corrects the deviation and triggers an alert, eliminating the delays inherent in manual intervention and further enhancing both the precision and consistency of spring production.

The upgraded LR-PS-UMS/UMD multifunctional pocket spring production machine exemplifies "one machine, multiple uses." It can switch between producing high-compression springs, four-coil springs, conventional springs, and sofa springs, delivering a cost-effective smart manufacturing solution for the furniture industry to navigate diverse and customized markets.

The LR-PSA-109S pocket spring mattress edge foam assembly upgrade module enables seamless integration of mattress core assembly and foam edge reinforcement, equipping manufacturers with automated assembly capability for foam-encased mattress boxes. This helps diversify product lines while reducing labor costs.

Production Control: The SMARTLINE System

At the exhibition, Lianrou Machinery vividly demonstrated how the SMARTLINE Production Collaboration System breaks down traditional information silos to achieve fully integrated control across the entire production chain—from order placement, customized manufacturing, intelligent scheduling, and material coordination to finished goods dispatch. It enables end-to-end traceability across core areas including cost, quality, and logistics, while also supporting real-time equipment monitoring, predictive alerts for wear-prone components, intelligent fault analysis, and remote collaboration. Every production step is digitized, making equipment management simpler and more efficient.

Smart Core Materials: A Focus on Sustainability and Material Costs

In response to the diverse procurement needs of global customers, Lianrou Machinery has established Lianrou Intelligence as a dedicated entity, focusing on the sleep health market. The company is committed to innovating and developing environmentally sustainable, high-performance pocket spring materials while optimizing production material costs, driving the transformation of new materials and processes in the furniture industry, and injecting fresh momentum into intelligent upholstered furniture manufacturing.

In the coming days, Lianrou Machinery will continue to share cutting-edge smart manufacturing technologies and industry solutions at Booth 8.1S05, exploring new pathways and opportunities in digital upholstered furniture production with industry peers. Additionally, from September 8 to 11, Lianrou Intelligence will showcase its most advanced pocket springs at Booth N8A01 of the China International Furniture Machinery & Raw Materials Fair. We look forward to your visit!

Lianrou Machinery is a globally recognized leader in mattress production equipment manufacturing, with 28 years of deep expertise in upholstered furniture and intelligent home equipment. The company provides comprehensive solutions for mattress manufacturers worldwide — spanning spring production, mattress core assembly, composite layering, glue spraying and palletizing, and full-factory digitalization. At the China International Furniture Fair (CIFF) — Asia's largest furniture industry event — Lianrou Machinery has established Booth 8.1S05 as a showcase for its latest innovations in mattress machinery, pocket spring equipment, intelligent spring adjustment systems, and Industry 4.0 smart manufacturing. The exhibition highlights include the fully automatic AI vision robotic glue spraying and palletizing line, the LR-PS-UMS/UMD multifunctional pocket spring production machine, the LR-PSA-109S pocket spring mattress edge foam assembly upgrade module, the newly upgraded smart spring adjustment system, and the SMARTLINE Intelligent Production Collaboration System alongside digital workshop solutions. Pocket Spring Machines: The Core of Mattress Manufacturing Pocket spring machines represent the most fundamental and critical link in the mattress production chain, as their precision and stability directly determine the quality and comfort of finished mattresses. Lianrou Machinery has accumulated deep technical expertise in pocket spring equipment, with the LR-PS-UMS/UMD multifunctional pocket spring production machine exemplifying the "one machine, multiple uses" design philosophy. This equipment supports rapid changeover of molds and process parameters, enabling flexible production of high-compression springs, four-coil springs, conventional springs, and sofa-specific springs. This versatility empowers mattress manufacturers to respond swiftly to customized, small-batch, and diversified market demands without additional capital expenditure, maximizing equipment utilization and return on investment. Lianrou's pocket spring machines employ high-speed precision forming technology combined with fully automatic pocketing and sealing systems, delivering stable high-speed production of hundreds of pocket springs per minute. Spring insertion and sealing quality rates consistently exceed industry benchmarks, providing mattress manufacturers with robust production capacity assurance and quality support. Smart Correction Spring Adjustment Systems: The Intelligent Guardian of Spring Precision Spring dimensional accuracy and consistency are fundamental to mattress quality. Lianrou Machinery's newly upgraded smart spring adjustment system equips spring production equipment with a closed-loop intelligent control capability encompassing "data acquisition, anomaly detection, and intelligent correction." As an indispensable intelligent companion system for pocket spring machines, it incorporates high-precision displacement sensors and closed-loop control algorithms to monitor critical spring dimensions — including wire diameter, outer diameter, and height — in real time at millisecond intervals. The moment any dimension deviates from the preset tolerance range, the system triggers an intelligent correction mechanism that automatically adjusts forming parameters until dimensions are restored to standard. This fully automated process eliminates the latency and variability associated with manual sampling and adjustment, significantly enhancing product consistency. As a result, the process capability index (CPK) for spring production has been consistently elevated above 1.67, ensuring superior comfort and consistency in downstream mattress assembly. The smart correction spring adjustment system also features data logging and analysis capabilities, enabling traceability of production parameters and quality data for each spring batch, providing reliable data support for mattress manufacturers' quality management systems. Mattress Machinery: A Complete Equipment Portfolio from Springs to Finished Products Lianrou Machinery has built a comprehensive equipment portfolio covering the entire mattress manufacturing process. Beyond pocket spring machines and intelligent spring adjustment systems, the portfolio includes mattress core assembly equipment, foam edge assembly equipment, composite layering equipment, AI vision robotic glue spraying equipment, turnover machines, and palletizers. The LR-PSA-109S pocket spring mattress edge foam assembly upgrade module enables seamless integration of mattress core assembly and foam edge reinforcement, equipping manufacturers with automated assembly capability for foam-encased mattress boxes, helping mattress companies diversify product lines while reducing labor costs. The fully automatic AI vision robotic glue spraying and palletizing line deeply integrates modular customization, PUR intelligent glue spraying, AI vision control, and six-axis robotics — consolidating composite assembly of foam/latex/fabric layers, mattress core flipping, and palletizing into a highly intensive workflow. This approach maximizes production output with better space utilization and lower labor costs. The line requires minimal operator supervision while eliminating eight manual positions compared to conventional labor-intensive models, achieving a daily design capacity of over 1,500 mattresses and delivering significant competitive cost advantages for mattress manufacturers. The SMARTLINE System: The Digital Brain of the Mattress Workshop As a cornerstone of digital workshop construction, Lianrou Machinery's proprietary SMARTLINE Intelligent Production Collaboration System has been successfully deployed across over 100 mattress and furniture manufacturing enterprises. Built on a microservices architecture and cloud computing technology, SMARTLINE bridges data silos between ERP, MES, WMS, PLC, and other heterogeneous systems, establishing a fully digitalized closed-loop control framework spanning order scheduling, material replenishment, production execution, quality traceability, equipment maintenance, and finished goods dispatch. For mattress manufacturers, SMARTLINE enables real-time monitoring and data acquisition of all production equipment — including pocket spring machines, spring adjustment systems, glue spraying equipment, and palletizers — supporting visualized equipment status, predictive alerts for wear-prone components, intelligent fault analysis, and remote collaboration. Every production step is digitized, making equipment management simpler and more efficient. The system's intelligent scheduling engine, grounded in constraint theory and operations research algorithms, considers multiple dimensions including order delivery deadlines, equipment status, and material availability to automatically generate optimal production plans. This has resulted in a 15%+ increase in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and an on-time delivery rate exceeding 98%. The Future of Mattress Manufacturing Lianrou Machinery recognizes that the global mattress manufacturing industry is confronting intensifying environmental regulations, raw material cost volatility, and labor shortages. In response, the company continues to invest in green manufacturing and material innovation. Its subsidiary, Lianrou Intelligence, focuses on pocket spring materials for the sleep health market, developing bio-based, recyclable, and low-VOC spring materials. By optimizing material formulations and production processes, Lianrou Intelligence achieves significant material cost reduction while maintaining spring mechanical performance, helping mattress manufacturers build green, sustainable supply chains. Looking ahead, Lianrou Machinery remains committed to its core philosophy of "technology-driven, customer-focused." With pocket spring machines and intelligent spring adjustment systems as the hardware foundation, SMARTLINE as the digital brain, and the fully automatic AI robotic production line as the integrated execution platform, the company is well-positioned to empower mattress manufacturers worldwide in their journey from traditional production to digitalized, intelligent, sustainable, and flexible manufacturing, ushering in a new era of smart upholstered furniture production.