Automation is a Inevitable Trend of the Food Packaging Machinery Development

The development of international food and packaging machinery is based on the large customer’s requirement, which also promote the related machinery development. Major customers’ requirements are mainly reflected in the following areas. 

First, the higher the production efficiency requirements are, the better. This will reduce the cost of the product and meet the delivery date. High-speed packaging machine requirements and prior processes have related convergence, without handling links, including the control interface. The entire production line and packaging processes to be arranged in reverse order to start, the order downtime. For example, cold-filling production line from plastic raw materials automatically on-line to the beverage filling, large packaging palletizing all in the closed workshop.

The second is to adapt to changes of products. Packaging machinery have high flexibility and flexibility. The production line allows that the size of the package within a certain size can vary. Because the product life cycle is much shorter than the life of the equipment, changing the product and packaging does not change expensive packaging lines. Third, equipment common faults can be quickly ruled out. Solution entering the computer in advance, when the device is a common fault can diagnose themselves, but also the implementation of remote diagnosis and troubleshooting.

Fourth, it requires automatic identification function. On the one hand, the equipment can automatically identify the thickness of packaging materials, hardness, rebound, etc., through computer feedback to the manipulator to adjust the range of motion, to ensure that does not rebound. On the other hand, different kinds of products, such as chocolate or snack with different shapes, are packed in the same box with regular arrangement. Production line delivery of the product is disorderly, the probe can be used to scan to determine the position of different shapes of materials, and then fed back to a different robot, it will be accurate according to the exact location and direction of goods into the tray, fast and accurate, excluding Man-made visual and finger fatigue.

The Fifth is to minimize environmental pollution. Reducing noise, dust pollution and minimizing waste is particularly important in food processing. Food raw materials not only make the main products during processing, such as corn processing, but also corn oil, salad oil, margarine, glucose, corn protein and feed, as well as sewage treatment. All of them were automated. No waste, no pollution, the value of other products have greatly exceeded the value of corn starch.