Recently, the two new production lines in the workshop have become "star attractions". Every day, customers come to see our factory's fully automatic paper packaging machines working. As a technician who has been following this project for three years, I touched the warm chassis cover of the equipment and knew in my heart that this solution can be popular, not relying on flower racks, but really hitting the pain points of packaging companies.
Last year, a boss who made cakes in Zhejiang came to the factory to complain: "It's too hard to pack gift boxes manually. Temporary workers can't be recruited during the peak season, and orders are about to be yellow." Our engineer demonstrated the capabilities of the fully automatic paper packaging machine to him on the spot. Guess what? From the feeding of cardboard to the stacking of finished products, there is only one operator staring at the screen throughout the whole process. The equipment completes positioning, folding, gluing, and forming by itself, and even special-shaped boxes can be processed straight. Later, the boss was happy on the phone: "Now we are confident to accept orders during the Mid-Autumn Festival!" The essence of this intelligent packaging solution is the design of "flexible production". Many equipment on the market have to stop working for half a day to change models. Our factory's machines have built-in memory functions, and common box parameters have been stored in advance. Last month, a customer in Qingdao wanted to produce round can gift boxes and square box sets at the same time. The workshop director Lao Zhang led people to cut the production line in half an hour. The customer slapped his thigh and said: "This is really smart!" We are not vague about energy-saving and environmentally friendly equipment. Now the environmental protection inspection is strict, and many factories are afraid of power consumption and dare not run at full capacity. We have installed variable frequency drive on the fully automatic paper packaging machine, and the assembly line automatically enters standby mode when idling. After a packaging factory in Hebei replaced our equipment, the meter reading slowed down by nearly 30%. The boss kept saying to everyone: "The money saved is enough to support another production line."
Customers often ask: "Can the existing production line be transformed?" This is the right person to ask. Our factory's solution engineers are best at upgrading packaging machinery. Last week, they made a "new and old mix and match" solution for a tissue factory in Jiangxi. They retained their original conveyor belt, embedded our fully automatic paper packaging machine in the middle, and connected the heat sealing machine of the old equipment to the back section, which revitalized a production line that was almost scrapped.
If you go to the finished product workshop, you will definitely see the note posted by Xiao Wang from the technical department on the equipment - "The anti-jam module has been optimized." This is our proud design that has been iterated for six versions. The ultra-thin art paper sent by customers in Fujian before was particularly delicate. Ordinary equipment would jam one out of every three sheets. We added a millimeter-level sensor to the paper inlet, and now even 0.3 mm hot stamping paper can run smoothly.
My colleagues in the marketing department have been urging me to write the equipment manual recently, saying that 80% of the questions in the consultation calls are focused on the difficulty of operation. In fact, it is not as complicated as they think. The interface of our fully automatic paper packaging machine is like a smartphone. Last week, when training a new customer in Shanxi, the workshop director in his 50s set the parameters by himself and started production with his apprentice before lunch.
For those who are worried about after-sales service, we have specially created an "equipment health file". Every fully automatic paper packaging machine sold has a dedicated cloud account. When it should be maintained and when the parts have been replaced, the system automatically pushes it to the customer. The owner of a toy factory in Guangdong said: "This service is more considerate than my car 4S shop!"
Standing in the shipping area and looking at the equipment for packaging vehicles, I suddenly remembered the early days of research and development. At that time, in order to test the stability of the fully automatic paper packaging machine, we ran the machine for 72 hours in a row, and took turns to take a nap in the corner of the workshop when we were sleepy. Now listening to the regular operation of the equipment, it feels like listening to my own children reciting texts. I know clearly where it is smooth and where I need to practice more.
If you are thinking about upgrading your packaging machinery, you may want to come to our workshop and step on the floor tiles. Watching how the fully automatic paper packaging machine turns crisp cardboard into exquisite gift boxes, and touching the finished product that is still warm after it comes off the production line, is definitely more exciting than reading ten proposals. After all, we technicians are all stubborn - we can only tell whether a machine is good or not by running it!
