Last summer, Mr. Zhang from a toothpaste factory in Guangdong raided our workshop with the quality inspection director, pointing to the robot arm being debugged and smacking his lips: "This piece of iron, can it really replace my fifteen packers?" Three months later, in the packing workshop of their factory, the robot arm was elegantly "queuing" for toothpaste tubes. Mr. Zhang smiled and sent us a message in the monitoring room: "The night shift security guard said that the machine is more diligent than people, and it is still palletizing at two o''clock in the middle of the night."
This transformation began with an urgent request for help. The factory''s export orders surged, and the original manual packing link became a bottleneck process. Their workshop director, Lao Li, showed us the scene in the video: the operator bends over and grabs the hose more than 2,000 times an hour, and the turnover boxes at the end of the assembly line are piled higher than people. "The most annoying thing is that the efficiency of the night shift is always off, and the tube body is placed in the wrong direction and can''t be found." We pulled the toothpaste tube secondary packaging machine over for on-site testing overnight. The most amazing thing about this equipment is the pair of "perspective eyes". The visual positioning module can identify the 0.5 mm color mark difference at the end of the tube. During the debugging, the old quality inspector Wang Jie in the factory did not believe in evil and deliberately mixed the mint and jasmine hoses. As a result, the robot arm seemed to have a brain, not only accurately sorting, but also turning the misplaced tube body to a standard direction. The real skill of the robot packing and palletizing system is at the time of production change. The original manual line had to clear the field for half an hour to switch the flavor, but now you just need to click the formula parameters on the touch screen. Once, we had to switch from children''s toothpaste to whitening series. The robot arm with the suction cup drew an "8" in the air, and the packaging specifications were adjusted in a blink of an eye. Xiao Liu, the workshop statistician, was secretly happy: "No longer have to chase for the stamping of the adjustment order."
The advantages of the flexible production line are prominent in the peak season. Before Double Eleven last year, the customer temporarily requested to add travel packing mixed box packaging. Our engineers remotely activated the multi-specification mixed loading mode, and the robot arm can grab three different weights of hoses at the same time, automatically generating a staggered honeycomb stack. The logistics supervisor Lao Zhou looked at the loading efficiency and slapped his thigh: "I knew that the loading and unloading platform should also be changed to automatic lifting!"
The acceptance day was the most interesting. The factory organized a man-machine PK competition, and eight skilled workers competed against our toothpaste hose secondary packaging machine. In the third round of boxing, the robot arm suddenly played a trick-a moisture-proof pad for each layer of carton. It turned out that we had preset special procedures for the rainy season in the south, which made the purchasing director who was watching the game order two more production lines on the spot.
Now when you go to their workshop, you can see that the crowded packing area has become a "viewing platform" for technicians. The wrist of the robotic arm flashes blue light to accurately grasp, and the automatic inkjet printer draws wavy lines on the side of the box. Mr. Zhang introduced a new customer last month and asked: "I heard that your equipment can hold a morning meeting by itself? Can you teach it to shout safety production slogans?"
