Great Potential: Packaging Machinery Automation Will Become a Sunrise Industry

As consumers' demands for product packaging increase, packaging production technology is continuously advancing, and various packaging equipment that improve packaging speed and aesthetics have emerged.

　　According to market estimates, by 2020, China's packaging industry will have established a new type of industry characterized by high technological content, good economic benefits, low resource consumption, minimal environmental pollution, and full utilization of talent resources. The packaging industry has huge development potential and has become a veritable sunrise industry.

　　Currently, domestic companies have made significant progress in filling equipment, packaging equipment, and packaging material production equipment. Although there are about 1,300 varieties of packaging machinery in China, there is a lack of high-tech, high-precision, and high-quality supporting products. Product performance is low, and stability and reliability are poor, so high-end technology is still needed to assist in upgrading packaging machinery products.

　　In recent years, through imitation, introduction of technology and capital, and global procurement, China's packaging machinery manufacturing and industrial design levels have developed rapidly. Today, Chinese packaging machinery manufacturers can easily obtain key components through global procurement, quickly improving the technical level and reliability of equipment, and packaging machinery is gradually moving towards industrial automation.

Future packaging machinery will align with the trend of industrial automation to promote the overall improvement of packaging equipment. New intelligent devices such as high-intelligence CNC systems, encoders and digital control components, and power load control have been widely applied to packaging machinery, enabling users to operate with greater independence, flexibility, accuracy, efficiency, and compatibility.

　　The automation products used in packaging machinery mainly include control systems, transmission control, motion control, 、 human-machine interface, and sensors.

　　Specifically including: control systems: embedded products, PLC IPC, fieldbus; transmission control: frequency converters, DC speed regulation; motion control: servo, stepper, motion controllers; human-machine interface: text displays, touch screens, tablet computers; electrical components and sensors: photoelectric switches, temperature sensors, pressure sensors, limit switches, etc., similar to other mechanical products.

　　Four major advantages of fully automatic granular packaging machines boost the packaging industry

　　Granular packaging machines are not well known to the public, but their contributions to the packaging industry are countless. Granular packaging machines are designed specifically for packaging granular materials, mainly used for grains, seeds, nuts, food, seasonings, and other free-flowing granular materials. To meet the rapid development needs of various granular product packaging in China, packaging machinery urgently needs to develop towards automation and intelligence. With the advancement of technology and market demand, it has finally joined the ranks of automation, bringing more convenience to the packaging industry and greater benefits to the market economy.

　　The working process of a fully automatic granular packaging machine roughly includes: packaging material—formed by a film former—horizontal sealing, heat sealing, printing, and tearing—cutting—vertical sealing and forming. During this process, it automatically completes a series of packaging tasks such as measuring, bag making, filling, sealing, printing batch numbers, cutting, and counting. As an advanced and stable packaging equipment, the fully automatic granular packaging machine has several outstanding advantages:

　　First, through digital technology measurement and control, packaging accuracy and stability are good; second, it can promptly alarm and stop when faults occur, reducing material and packaging losses, and can automatically store data to ensure production continuity; third, the equipment is made of stainless steel, meeting national GMP standards to ensure materials are not contaminated during packaging; fourth, the equipment is designed with user-friendliness, making maintenance and repair convenient.

　　Currently, foreign packaging industries are moving towards full automation. The widespread adoption of automatic packaging machinery and automatic packaging lines can achieve high efficiency at low cost. As one of the fastest-growing economic entities, China is becoming the world's manufacturing and packaging center. China's granular packaging machine industry is continuously improving advanced technology and enhancing the innovation capability of packaging machinery products. Through efforts, domestic equipment can compete with international products and also possess strong technological competitiveness.

　　With continuous industrial development, the process and methods of product manufacturing have undergone tremendous changes. The era of mechanization is over; automation is now the focus of major machinery manufacturers. As an important part of the production process, product packaging is also increasingly automated and intelligent. Fully automatic granular packaging machines not only meet basic definitions but also keep pace with market demands, continuously conducting technological research and product updates to play a greater role in product packaging.