Last month, I went to a storage center in East China to inspect equipment. From a distance, I heard their workshop director, Lao Zhou, yelling: "This machine has finally saved us from the 'artificial hell'!" The guys in our technical team smiled at this - after all, they had to sleep on the floor in the customer's workshop for half a month with quilts in their arms before they could train this automatic packaging machine for groceries.
The story started half a year ago. This company specializes in the distribution of imported food. Its warehouse is filled with groceries of various shapes: from thumb-sized cashews to palm-sized mushrooms, from slippery dried scallops to sticky candied fruits. The original manual packaging line had 20 people assigned to the sorting post alone, and customers complained about mixed and missed packaging every day. The most outrageous time was that a supermarket received ten boxes of mixed nuts, and three packages of "surprise packages" mixed with screws were found.
When we took over, the floor of the workshop was still scattered with return orders that had not been cleaned up in time. The production manager pointed to the piles of goods and sighed: "These dry goods are afraid of moisture and pressure. The weighing error of manual packaging alone can increase the monthly loss by 20%." These words pierced our hearts like a needle. After a meeting overnight, we decided to use our magic weapon - the third-generation automatic packaging machine for food and groceries, plus a customized intelligent sorting module.
During the debugging week, we finally saw what "strange" means. The machine encountered a challenge as soon as it went online: a new batch of dried figs from the customer were stuck together, and ordinary vibrating screens could not separate them at all. Our engineer went into the equipment cabin without saying a word, adjusted the grabbing frequency of the sorting module to the "massage mode", and combined with the negative pressure adsorption technology, forced the stuck dried figs to line up at the feed port. The workers on site smacked their lips and said, "This machine is more dexterous than human fingers!"
The most thrilling thing was the processing of the batch of special-shaped spices. Star anise, bay leaves, and grass fruits were like acrobats on the conveyor belt, either stuck in the seams or stacked up. We loaded the dynamic visual compensation system on the automatic packaging machine for food and groceries, which is equivalent to installing thinking eyes on the machine. Now, let alone sorting, even the breakage rate of bay leaves has been reduced to the lowest level in the industry. When the customer accepted the inspection, he deliberately grabbed a handful of the finished product and smelled it closely: "The aroma of the spice bag packed by the machine is more complete than that of manual packaging!"
The industrial-grade stability of this set of equipment is even more impressive. During the rainy season this year, the humidity in the customer's warehouse soared to 90%, and ordinary equipment had already "struck" in protest. However, our automatic grocery packaging machine was like wearing an invisible raincoat, and it could seal the moisture-prone wolfberries and longans without leaking out. This is all thanks to the triple sealing design and intelligent dehumidification module in the transmission system, and even the corners of the equipment are covered with "breathing" nano-coatings.
During a recent return visit, the data dashboard on the wall of the workshop was dazzling - the packaging yield rate was directly increased from the original 80% to the industry benchmark line of 98%. What's more, the packaging line that originally required 20 people now only needs 3 inspectors staring at the screen. The saved manpower was transferred by customers to open up new markets, and I heard that two large overseas orders were recently won.
Watching the rows of automatic packaging machines for groceries on the production line undulating like piano keys, I suddenly remembered the joke made by the vice president of the customer: "You have installed the 'strongest brain' on the packaging line!" In fact, there is no magic, but our flexible production line technology can adapt to various groceries like Transformers, coupled with the 24-hour online cloud monitoring system, so that each device has become a self-correcting intelligent body.
Before leaving, the newly arrived goods in the warehouse were automatically diverted into the warehouse. The blue indicator light of the intelligent sorting module flashed like a constellation of stars, accurately sorting black truffles, cashews, and dried cranberries into the corresponding production lines. This scene reminded me of what the old master said when I first entered the industry: "Good equipment should not be a cold iron lump, but a partner who can read the mind of the goods." Now it seems that the automatic packaging machine for groceries in our factory has indeed made this sentence a reality.
