Recently, I always hear customers complain: "The rent of the new factory is too expensive, and the old equipment occupies too much space", "It takes a long time to change the parameters", "The electric meter runs faster than the production line". Now, our factory's R&D team has stayed up for more than a dozen nights and finally adjusted the new generation of small automatic packaging machines. Now this equipment specializes in treating the "three highs of packaging" of small and medium-sized enterprises: high space consumption, high production change cost, and high energy consumption burden.
Let's talk about our most proud space utilization first. Last week, when we were renovating the production line for a freeze-dried fruit and vegetable factory in Hangzhou, their workshop supervisor Lao Zhao stared at the equipment in a daze: "Such a small thing can replace two old packaging machines?" It's true that this small automatic packaging machine adopts a vertical structure design, occupies less than 60% of the traditional equipment, and can also set up a conveyor belt on the top. The best thing is that the bottom of the equipment is equipped with universal wheels that can be raised and lowered, so customers can push the machine to move between different production lines.
We understand the trouble of changing production. Last year, when I visited a foundry in Dongguan, I saw that the workers took a wrench to adjust the guide rail for more than 40 minutes to change the packaging specifications. Now our flexible production system has a built-in memory function. The operator clicks on the preset parameters on the touch screen, and it only takes a cup of coffee to switch from biscuit bags to candy bags. When installing it for a Yunnan flower cake company last month, their post-00 technician Xiao Liu also developed a new way of playing - storing the limited packaging parameters for different festivals in the cloud, and directly calling them when needed. The boss said that this is equivalent to hiring a "digital master".
When it comes to energy consumption optimization, this is the specialty of Master Wang, the chief engineer. He led his team to redesign the power system of the small automatic packaging machine and adopted dual-mode drive technology. The standard mode is used for daily production, and the strong mode is switched to when there is a temporary rush. It is not like traditional equipment that "steps on the accelerator" throughout the process, and it avoids the loss of frequent start and stop. A seafood packaging customer in Ningbo has done a comparative test. Under the same output, the monthly electricity bill has dropped by nearly one-third.
Some colleagues may ask: Your small automatic packaging machine is so versatile, it is very troublesome to maintain it? I will tell you a little secret secretly-we installed a "smart physical examination window" on the back of the equipment. Last month, the machine of a Shandong customer reported an error. The maintenance master guided them to open this window through video and found that the sensor was stained with sesame powder. The customer solved it by cleaning it with a cotton swab, saving more than 3,000 yuan in door-to-door service fees. This modular design makes our after-sales engineer Lao Li both relieved and "distressed": "Now there are fewer business trips, but I have to open a video every day to be a technical anchor."
Recently, the pharmaceutical packaging industry has also set its sights on our flexible production system. A medical device factory in Jiangsu moved a small automatic packaging machine into a 100,000-level clean room, specifically for packaging medical cotton pads. Their quality director called to say that the dust control during the operation of the equipment is better than that of imported models. In my opinion, this is due to our special negative pressure suction port. The fibers floating during the packaging process are directly sucked into the filter bag, which not only protects the equipment but also maintains the cleanliness of the workshop. Of course, the intelligent control system is the "brain" of the whole solution. When attending the industry exhibition last week, a visitor gave us a difficult question on the spot: Can the machine automatically identify the front and back of the packaging bag? Our technician demonstrated the working process of the visual inspection module on the spot-when the packaging bag with the wrong direction passes, the machine will not only automatically alarm, but also correct it in time through the flip mechanism. This impromptu demonstration directly helped us get the contact information of five potential customers. Now walking through the assembly workshop every day, looking at the more than 20 small automatic packaging machines that the workers are debugging, I suddenly remembered the sentence that customers often said three years ago: "Small factories can't afford automation, and large equipment can't afford it." Now, isn’t our smart device, which can be installed in a street corner bakery or in a medical sterile room, a reassurance for small and medium-sized enterprises? Next time, if you meet a boss who still uses semi-automatic equipment, you should ask him to come to the workshop to listen to the operation of these machines - the rhythm is even more efficient than the movements of the old master packing!
