Last month, when I went to Huaxing Electronics to inspect the equipment, their quality inspection supervisor Lao Wu held a magnifying glass and lay at the end of the assembly line. He looked over the packaged mobile phone box three times and finally said: "Is your machine probably equipped with electronic eyes? The creases at the corners of the box are aligned more neatly than my daughter folding paper cranes!"
This story started half a year ago. At that time, Huaxing received a large overseas order, requiring the packaging error of the mobile phone box to not exceed the width of a hair. Their old equipment always "dropped the chain" in the final packaging link, and the entire batch had to be reworked if the box cover was slightly misaligned. Production Director Mr. Chen was so anxious that his mouth was foaming: "Ordinary boxed electronic product packaging machines on the market can''t chew this hard bone at all!"
Our engineering team squatted in the Huaxing workshop for three days and found that the key to the problem was "hand shaking" - when traditional equipment grabs the box cover, it is like holding chopsticks unsteadily, and it will shift when it encounters a slight vibration. After returning to the factory, Lao Zhou from the mechanical group and his apprentices installed an "anti-shake artifact" on the boxed electronic product packaging machine. Guess what? We added a six-axis fine-tuning mechanism to the vacuum suction cup, and with laser positioning, now when grabbing the box cover, it is like an old master applying a film to a mobile phone, so stable that even breathing has a sense of rhythm.
What surprised customers the most was the flexible production capacity. I remember that on the day of debugging, Huaxing suddenly said that it would temporarily install earphone accessories. Our engineer Xiao Yang swiped a few times on the control screen, and the boxed electronic product packaging machine automatically switched modes like a Transformer - the original single-layer packaging station instantly changed to a double-layer nested structure. Mr. Chen looked at the phone boxes and earphones on the assembly line, which were assembled perfectly, and turned to ask me: "Can this machine read minds?"
The most difficult thing to overcome is static electricity, the "invisible killer". Precision electronic components are most afraid of static electricity during packaging. We put on "anti-static armor" for the boxed electronic product packaging machine: the conveyor belt is changed to conductive silicone material, and ion wind sticks are installed at key parts. During the surprise inspection last week, the static electricity tester in Huaxing Laboratory showed that the static electricity value of the entire packaging process was maintained in the safe zone, and even their picky Korean customer gave a thumbs up.
Now when you walk into the Huaxing workshop, the most eye-catching thing is our matte gray boxed electronic product packaging machine. It looks very serious when working - it automatically takes photos and saves files after completing ten packaging boxes, and immediately lights up a blue light to remind you if it finds any abnormalities. Once when I went to make an after-sales visit, I happened to encounter an alarm on the equipment. The worker picked up a piece of paper scraps the size of a fingernail from the conveyor belt and laughed: "This guy is more sensitive than our sweeping robot!"
The acceptance day was the most interesting. Xiao Wang, a young technician at Huaxing, didn''t believe in evil, so he deliberately put a sesame-sized glue particle on the corner of the box. As a result, the boxed electronic product packaging machine accurately identified the packaging at the moment of packaging, not only automatically removed the defective products, but also popped up a fault analysis diagram on the display screen. Liu, an engineer from the technical department, slapped his thigh when looking at the curve chart: "Wow, this machine can be used as a quality inspection trainer!"
Now Huaxing''s packaging qualification rate has soared from 87% to 99.6%, becoming a new benchmark in the industry. Last month, during their open day, more than 20 suppliers came to visit, and the boxed electronic product packaging machine was surrounded by crowds. Listening to the shutter sounds one after another, I secretly joked with General Manager Chen: "Next time, we have to equip our machine with a signature plate, look at this star-like posture!"
After returning from Huaxing, the masters got drunk at the celebration banquet and said nonsense: "We are not making machines, we are clearly installing the soul of German craftsmen in the packaging line!" If you ask me, being able to get a thumbs-up from a strict electronics factory is more exciting than any trophy. If you pass by the Pearl River Delta electronics industry belt someday, you might come across our factory''s boxed electronic product packaging machines - they are wearing anti-static wristbands and performing precise "fingertip ballet" on the assembly line!
