# Intelligent Pottery Wheel Machine Design: Enhancing Pottery Throwing Quality and Efficiency
## 6 Conclusions  
This paper discusses the significant advantages of the intelligent pottery wheel machine in terms of central positioning, automatic feeding, clay storage, user experience, and mechanical strength. By comparing the second-generation intelligent pottery wheel machine with the traditional, the following conclusions are drawn:  
1. Central Positioning: The second-generation pottery wheel machine incorporates a control panel, and the integration of an automated system with high-precision sensors improves the accuracy of clay positioning. The lifting mechanism's small platform, combined with the bearing sleeve, ensures that the clay body is stably and quickly elevated to the center of the throwing wheel. This guarantees that the clay body maintains an initial cylindrical shape during the preliminary throwing stage, preserving the symmetry and consistency of the clay before the rotation process. 2. Automatic Feeding: The automatic feeding system within the pull mechanism significantly enhances the convenience and time efficiency of manual operations. The addition of a power push system and the program-controlled automated continuous feeding setting ensure that the push plate automatically advances the clay. This significantly reduces clay waste during loading and changing processes, making the throwing process more environmentally friendly and sustainable, and optimizing the utilization of clay material during the initial throwing operation. 3. Clay Storage Mechanism: The clay storage section replaces the need for manual assessment of clay density and quality. Combined with the power push section, it ensures that the clay body maintains relatively stable quality under objective conditions. The second-generation pottery wheel machine draws clay from the storage section during each material change, eliminating the need for manual supervision of clay quality. 4. User Experience: The focus is on beginners while simplifying the operation process for industry workers. The core is to save manual replenishment time, reduce the labor intensity of adding clay, minimize the calibration of clay position, and directly proceed with the throwing operation. The power push module, through pressure pushing, ensures that the clay body exhibits high quality and balanced density, overcoming the drawbacks of traditional manual repeated clay addition to maintain the stability of the clay body quality and avoiding repeated manual adjustments of the clay body center position. 5. Mechanical Strength: Compared to the traditional pottery wheel machine, the second-generation intelligent pottery wheel machine adopts a lightweight and modular design. All components are made of lightweight yet sturdy materials. The superior performance of tempered materials increases the stability of the equipment. With the same material utilization rate, the modular design structure of the second-generation machine ensures that each mechanism operates with minimal material while having clear division of labor and tight cooperation. Comparative experimental results indicate that this equipment has certain advantages in saving clay material, improving throwing efficiency, and increasing the success rate of pottery throwing. While maintaining basic parameters such as product rotation speed and direction, the initial positioning time is only 1-2 min to achieve automatic calibration and central positioning, with a central error rate of less than 5%. Compared to machines on the market that require manual calibration of the clay center, the pre-throwing operation time is nearly doubled. Looking to the future, integrating intelligent pottery wheel machines that improve material utilization into the broader concept of sustainable development holds promise. These automated devices can improve material efficiency by minimizing waste, thereby promoting green economic development. Although the second-generation pottery wheel machine effectively reduces cumbersome and ineffective manual operations, after prolonged use, clay will inevitably appear on various mechanisms.