Packaging lines are complex systems that require a certain number of appropriate personnel and equipment. Too much or too little will affect production efficiency. Therefore, companies need to consider the optimization of packaging system integration. Employees and packaging equipment should be rationally adjusted to enable a higher degree of automated production, and packaging system integration becomes a strategy to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and achieve sustainability.
I. What is packaging system integration?
Packaging system integration refers to the organic integration of various packaging equipment, control systems, information management systems, etc. through advanced automation technology, Internet of Things technology and intelligent algorithms to form a highly synergistic and efficiently operated packaging production line. This integrated system not only optimizes the packaging process, but also significantly improves packaging efficiency and quality control, while reducing labor costs and environmental impact. We will talk about it in terms of automation equipment.
II.Selection and Optimisation of Automatic Packaging Equipment
Due to the nature and demand of packaging products, companies need to buy a large number of different equipment to complete the production task, the use of a single labor force often can not meet the production orders, and the establishment of automated production lines is necessary.
Traditionally most companies use manual labor to place packaging materials such as cards, packages, cartons, papers, etc. This uses a lot of manual labour and is inefficient. Now, technological innovations have changed this production method, and using automated equipment can quickly replace manual feeding.
When selecting equipment vendors, it is important to take into account their certified quality and technical stability profile, as well as their ability to be efficiently compatible with our production lines for cross-platform applications, such as iFeeder paging machines. By integrating various sensors (e.g. weight sensors, position sensors) and machine vision systems, the friction feeder can monitor the packaging process in real-time for precise positioning and quality control of printing and labelling, such as unclear printing, crooked labelling, and re-sheet feeding.
III.Packaging System Integration Case
Food Industry: In the food packaging industry, pagination machines are widely used for the automatic pagination and conveying of food bags, pill boxes and other packaging materials. For example, a food processing plant has adopted a high-speed automatic coding paginator, which automatically paginates food bags and conveys them to the coding machine for printing. This integrated application not only improves packaging efficiency, but also ensures the accuracy and consistency of the coding position.
Corrugated Cardboard Packaging Industry: Principal Packaging Co., Ltd. has comprehensively upgraded its packaging system by introducing automated production lines. The company has two automatic corrugated cardboard production lines, four automatic carton production lines, four printing production lines, etc. These production lines have been smartly transformed to achieve automated transport and production. The main equipments are five-colour printing machine, automatic packing machine, automatic die-cutting machine and so on.
Flour Packaging Industry: To improve the measuring accuracy and working efficiency of flour packaging machines and reduce the labor intensity of workers, a flour production and processing enterprise has designed and developed a flour automatic bagging and packaging production line through customized service. The production line consists of four major parts: an automatic weighing device, a conveying device, a bag sewing device, a computer control, etc. It realizes the process of bag loading with manual assistance, automatic weighing, bag clamping, filling, and automatic sealing or bag sewing by conveyor belt transfer. Main equipment: automatic weighing device, conveying device, sewing device, computer control system.
IV.Future Developments
With the further development of artificial intelligence, chips, and other technologies, packaging system integration and automated packaging production equipment will move to a higher level of intelligence and networking. We expect to see more flexible, efficient, personalized packaging solutions in the future. In short, the application of packaging system integration and automated packaging production equipment will not only accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the packaging industry but also solve the problem of increasing labor costs.
