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Abstract According to the principle of regional centralization and overall decentralization, K-means algorithm based on elbow rule was adopted to divide the equipment on the artificial colored-sand production line into several clustering partitions. The results were optimized to realize power balance between different partitions. Center of gravity method was adopted to determine the location of each control node. The goal of minimizing the total weighted distance from each equipment to its corresponding control node was achieved. Field results have shown that hardware and wiring cost of the production line has decreased by 13.32% and 20.41%, respectively.