​How the packaging machine industry breaks through today's difficulties

At present, China has become the world's largest commodity producer and exporter. At the same time, the eyes of all over the world are also focused on China's packaging market, which is the largest, fastest growing and most potential. However, the low-level development of the packaging machinery industry will affect the development of the entire packaging industry, so there is no doubt that efforts must be made to change its backwardness.

The domestic packaging industry is still in a state of low-level development, and some complete sets of packaging equipment with higher technical content still rely on foreign imports to meet domestic demand. This over-reliance has seriously restricted the development of my country's packaging industry and has also put some uncompetitive packaging machinery companies in an endangered situation. Although the domestic packaging machinery market has a relatively bright future, domestic packaging machinery products have been criticized due to poor single-machine automation, insufficient stability, low reliability, unsightly appearance, short lifespan, etc.

Manufacturing execution systems: Integrated technology has developed rapidly in the packaging industry in recent years. There are many types of packaging machinery and equipment, which makes the product interface docking of different manufacturers, the transmission methods between equipment and industrial computers, and information and equipment encountered great difficulties. In this case, packaging companies turn to manufacturing execution systems (MES) for solutions.

Safety detection technology: Safety is the first keyword in any industry, especially in the packaging industry. The reflection of pharmaceutical safety in packaging machinery is not limited to simple physical parameters, but also requires attention to factors such as the color and raw materials of drugs. The scope of packaging machinery applications is expanding, which continues to put forward higher requirements for machinery manufacturers and automation product suppliers.

Flexible production: In order to adapt to the fierce competition in the market and strive for more market share, major companies have shorter and shorter product upgrade cycles. According to relevant information, in the production of cosmetics, for example, product upgrades generally occur every three years, sometimes even every quarter. At the same time, the production volume is relatively large, so the flexibility of packaging machinery is very high. requirements, that is to say, the life of packaging machinery must be much longer than the life cycle of the product. Because only by meeting such conditions can the requirements of product production economy be met. Regarding flexibility, we have to consider three aspects, namely quantity flexibility, structural flexibility and supply flexibility.

Motion control technology: Motion control technology is developing very rapidly in China, but its application and development momentum in the packaging machinery industry is very weak. The main role of motion control products and technologies in packaging machinery is to achieve precise position control and strict speed synchronization requirements. This is mainly used in processes such as loading and unloading, conveying, marking, palletizing, and depalletizing. Therefore, in today's environment, the level of motion control technology is one of the important considerations for distinguishing different levels of packaging machinery.

Only by continuous efforts and continuous study in these aspects can we stand out in a relatively low-level and highly competitive environment.