"When I received a call from the biscuit factory in Fujian in early spring last year, I could hear Mr. Wang's anxiety through the microphone." Lao Liu, who is responsible for the sales in East China, clicked on the customer file and recalled: "Their factory has been making animal-shaped biscuits for more than 20 years, but the new cartoon co-branded models can't be wrapped in a three-dimensional sense - the old equipment always crushes the antlers and rabbit ears, and the return rate once reached 15%."
When Lao Zhou, the leader of the pillow packaging machine R&D team of our factory, led the team to the site, the workshop director pointed to the pile of defective products and shook his head: "These special-shaped materials are simply terrible to pack!" Lao Zhou picked up a piece of dinosaur biscuit and gestured: "The traditional horizontal sealing knife is 'iron plate pressing biscuits', we have to change to 'tailor-made' work!" Three days later, the debugging team added a flexible heat sealing and cutting module to the pillow packaging machine, like a layer of breathing "hot blanket" covering the biscuits, which not only sealed the packaging but also did not damage the shape.
"The most exciting thing is the high-speed linkage production line connection!" Xiao Chen, who was doing the on-site installation, was beaming with joy when talking about the debugging experience: "The original production line of the customer ran 200 packages per minute, and our pillow packaging machine had to "take over" at this pace. During the debugging at 2 a.m. that day, the equipment suddenly "went on strike" - it turned out that the biscuit residues were stuck in the photoelectric eye!" The team modified the dust removal system of the inlet overnight, and now the equipment is running like a tireless "packaging marathon runner".
"Your pillow packaging machine is really 'smart'!" When we visited again three months later, the workshop director Lao Li took us to see the production board: "Now the completeness rate of packaging antler biscuits has soared from 85% to 98%, and the speed of production change is even more amazing!" He pointed to the equipment that was switching packaging film: "We just finished the Paw Patrol co-branded version yesterday, and today we switched back to the ordinary version. The parameters are automatically called in the cloud, saving us half the workload of the machine adjustment team leader!"
During the routine inspection last month, after-sales engineer Xiao Zhang found an interesting phenomenon: a hand-painted sticker with "Guardian of the Production Line" was posted on the operating screen of the customer's pillow packaging machine. When asked about the reason, the duty supervisor smiled and said: "Since the equipment was installed, the production capacity of the night shift is higher than that of the day shift - it is said that the temperature is low at night, and the heat sealing and cutting effect is more stable!" In fact, we added a temperature and humidity compensation system to the equipment. No matter how large the external environment fluctuates, the sealing strength is always online.
"The wave of orders before Double 11 was really thrilling!" Mr. Wang shared at the acceptance meeting: "At that time, the daily output had to be increased from 80,000 packages to 150,000 packages. I thought it was over." Unexpectedly, we turned on the "violent mode" for the pillow packaging machine - by optimizing the film material traction algorithm, we squeezed out 20% of the equipment's potential. What's more surprising is that the film material deviation that was common in the past did not occur under high-speed operation, thanks to the self-developed dual servo correction system.
Recently, the customer's R&D department has come up with a new job - launching sandwich dinosaur cookies. This "special-shaped material packaging plus version" that requires jam to be injected during the packaging process almost made the technical team bald. "That day, Mr. Wang said on the phone that 'the filling sauce always rubs against the sealing area', so we installed three anti-fouling barriers on the pillow packaging machine overnight." Lao Zhou smiled as he flipped through the improvement plan: "Now the sealing and cutting blade is like coated with a 'lotus leaf coating', and the jam stains can be wiped off with just one wipe!"
Last month, when I went to Hangzhou to participate in the exhibition, the owner of the chocolate factory in the next booth took the initiative to ask: "I heard that the hard-to-chew bone in Fujian has been gnawed down by you?" It turns out that it has been rumored in the industry that our pillow packaging machine can handle more than 90% of the packaging of special-shaped materials. What makes customers more at ease is that the key components of the equipment have reserved upgrade interfaces - in the words of Mr. Wang: "This is not buying equipment, it is simply hiring a packaging engineer who can 'further study' at any time!"
Standing in the visiting corridor on the second floor of the customer's workshop, watching the golden dinosaur biscuits line up to pass through the pillow packaging machine and finally become the cartoon packaging that people can't put down on the shelf, I can't help but think of the old machine that used ink rollers to manually seal 20 years ago. Today, this roaring "iron general" not only protects the childlike shape of each biscuit, but also witnesses the transformation of China's food intelligent manufacturing from following to leading. If you are also worried about the packaging of special-shaped products, you might as well listen to the "breaking the wall" stories of these pillow packaging machines and creative food.
