Walking into the packaging workshop of a food giant, 12 smart packaging machines are performing "mechanical ballet": the robotic arms are as flexible as the fingers of a pianist, and the AI vision system completes 15 quality inspections per second. This is not a science fiction movie, but a daily application scenario of the ply-pack smart packaging solution.
The core of the solution is the "IoT + AI" dual-engine architecture. Through the 30+ sensors deployed on the equipment, more than 200 parameters such as speed, temperature, and pressure are collected in real time, and uploaded to the cloud after pre-processing by the edge computing node. After a beverage company applied it, the overall equipment efficiency (OEE) increased from 68% to 89%, and downtime was reduced by 45%.
In a manufacturing company in the Yangtze River Delta, we witnessed such a transformation: the packaging line that originally required 8 skilled workers was now staffed by one person after the introduction of the intelligent packaging machine. Based on an average annual salary of 80,000 yuan per person, the annual cost savings for a single line exceeded 600,000 yuan. More hidden is the quality cost - the leakage rate dropped from 0.8% to 0.03%, which is equivalent to a potential loss reduction of 2.4 million yuan per year based on the annual output value of the company.
In view of the rapid iteration characteristics of the fast-moving consumer goods industry, we have developed a "modular intelligent packaging platform". A snack food customer achieved seamless switching between three types of packaging forms, nuts, puffed foods, and candies, by replacing the end effector, and the changeover time was compressed from 45 minutes to 8 minutes.
While the industry is still discussing the upgrade of single product equipment, ply-pack has built a four-layer digital twin system of "equipment-production line-factory-supply chain". After a multinational company applied this solution, it not only realized the intelligence of the packaging link, but also opened up the entire chain of procurement, production, and logistics through data, increased inventory turnover by 35%, and exceeded 92% in demand forecast accuracy.
The intelligent packaging machine solution brings not only equipment upgrades, but also the reconstruction of business logic. When each device becomes a data terminal and each production line becomes a profit center, the company will master the "digital code" to win in the digital economy era. This is exactly the industry evolution theory written by ply-pack and its partners.
