Lao Zhang in our workshop was holding his mobile phone and laughing yesterday - the customized packaging machine he participated in debugging ran a record of 30,000 pieces a day in the warehouse of the e-commerce company! This story started three months ago. At that time, the purchasing director of XX e-commerce came to the factory with a team to inspect and pointed to the special-shaped box packaging equipment we were assembling and said: "We need this kind of machine that can change formations at any time!"
The era of hard to find a package is over
Brothers in the e-commerce warehouse know that when it comes to the big promotion season, those weird beauty boxes and fresh gift packs can drive people crazy. Traditional packaging machines are okay for standard boxes, but they will stop working immediately when they encounter special specifications. The packaging machine customized by our factory for XX e-commerce this time is equipped with a deformable mold library, which can combine more than 20 packaging forms like Lego blocks. In the video they sent last week, our machine was putting "coats" on cylindrical tea cans, and then turned around to pack octagonal health care product boxes, and the switching process did not stop.
Intelligent sorting has become the "strongest brain" in the packaging industry
The core of this system is the visual recognition module on the top, which is like a fire eye for the packaging machine. Regardless of whether the conveyor belt is fragile or heavy, the scanner can determine which packaging solution to use in 0.5 seconds. There was a joke during the trial run last month: an employee deliberately threw a bottle of mineral water and an egg box into the assembly line, but the machine wrapped the mineral water with shock-proof bubble film and the egg box with honeycomb cardboard, which was more delicate than manual sorting.
Flexible production line makes the warehouse "alive"
The modular design is what our engineers are most proud of. The carton packaging area, bubble film packaging area, and vacuum shrinkage area commonly seen in e-commerce warehouses are now all integrated into a 30-meter-long flexible production line. When the production capacity needs to be adjusted, it is like "plugging and unplugging a USB flash drive" from the production line - removing two filling modules can free up space to install a quality inspection station. I heard that XX e-commerce has already used this function in its "6.18" preparations. Standard boxes are used during the day, and fresh packaging mode is switched to at night, and the capacity utilization rate is directly maximized.
Actual combat test shows the truth
Last Wednesday, I followed the after-sales team to the site for inspection, just in time for them to process return and exchange packages. The returned items that originally needed to be unpacked manually can now be directly put into storage as new products after secondary packaging by our customized packaging machine. The warehouse supervisor pointed to the real-time data screen and showed us: the average number of packages processed per day soared from 8,000 to 20,000, but the wrong package rate dropped by 70%. The most amazing thing is the consumables control system, which uses intelligent algorithms to raise the utilization rate of cardboard scraps to a new high in the industry, and the packaging cost alone can save the money of a car every month.
24-hour online "equipment nanny"
This time we also played a new trick - connecting the predictive maintenance system to the e-commerce warehouse management system. Now if the temperature of any bearing of the equipment is abnormal, or the wear of the cutter exceeds the standard, our engineer's mobile phone will receive an early warning before the customer. Last month, there was a heavy rain in the East China region, and the sensor of a machine of XX e-commerce was damp. The remote diagnosis system directly guided the on-site staff to replace the spare module, and it took less than half an hour from the alarm to the resumption of production.
Standing on the observation deck of the packaging workshop and looking down, more than 20 customized packaging machines are running at full capacity. These iron guys have now become the hot cakes in the e-commerce circle. I heard that logistics bases in three provinces have inquired about our customized packaging center plan. If you ask me, we who are engaged in equipment research and development are more proud to contribute to the development of Chinese e-commerce than to train apprentices in person!
(Note: XX e-commerce in this article is a pseudonym for the confidentiality requirements of the partner)
