The arrival of the era of automation in the packaging machinery industry

As the second largest global packaging country, China has ushered in the rapid development of the packaging machinery industry. However, there are still many deficiencies in the current domestic development situation, and the rapid pace of development requires the stability and automation in the mechanical production process.

As the last part of the industry value chain, packaging is increasingly valued by manufacturers. The development of the packaging industry cannot be separated from the development of the packaging machinery and equipment industry that is closely related to it. The continuous innovation of equipment is the rapid development of the packaging industry. The main basis. According to statistics, in 2011, the global flexible packaging consumption reached 18.1 million tons and the output value reached US$58.3 billion. For the packaging machinery industry, this growth rate has greatly increased the market demand for packaging machinery and equipment. Although the domestic packaging machinery market has broad prospects, such issues as stand-alone automation, poor stability and reliability, aesthetic appearance, and short service life are issues. It also caused domestic packaging machinery products to suffer from criticism.

The increase in market demand for packaging machinery and equipment has, to a large extent, stimulated the technological upgrading of the industry. The new packaging machines with intelligent and automated functions will gradually replace traditional ones and become the mainstream of the future. This is an effective way for packaging machinery companies to achieve sustainable development, and it is also the ultimate goal of their technological reforms.

Twenty years ago, the first application of PLC in packaging machinery products opened the era of packaging machinery automation technology. Later, with the intervention of control and drive technology, servo technology and digital concepts, the packaging machinery market has undergone multiple rounds of change. At present, China has become the world's largest producer and exporter of commodities. At the same time, the global attention is also focused on the fastest growing, largest and most promising Chinese packaging market.

Security Testing Technology - The field of detection gradually expands security is the first key word in any industry, especially in the packaging industry. In the food industry, safety inspection technology has developed rapidly in recent years. At present, the manifestation of food safety on packaging machinery is not only limited to the scope of simple physical parameters, but also pay attention to food color, raw materials and other factors. The scope of application of packaging machinery is expanding, so that it constantly puts forward new requirements for machinery manufacturers and suppliers of automation products. For example, in food packaging, it is necessary to be able to monitor the bacterial content of the product itself and the packaging material online. Therefore, in the field of automation products, machine vision and other technologies have great potential for development.

Motion Control Technology - The key motion control technology for domestic packaging machinery upgrades has been developing rapidly in China, but the development momentum in the packaging machinery industry has risen weakly. The role of motion control products and technologies in packaging machinery is mainly to achieve precise position control and strict speed synchronization requirements. It is mainly used for handling, conveying, marking, palletizing, and depalletizing. Motion control technology is one of the key factors for distinguishing high, medium and low-end packaging machinery, and it is also a technical support for upgrading packaging machinery in China.

Because the entire mechanical assembly line in the packaging industry is continuous, it has extremely high requirements for speed, torque, precision, and dynamic performance. This is precisely in line with the characteristics of servo products. At present, the bus-type motion controllers introduced by major automation companies have very broad application prospects in the packaging machinery industry.

The market demand is the source of economic development, so automation and intelligence will become one of the development directions of the packaging machinery industry.