Development prospect of digital carton packaging machinery

Development prospect of digital carton packaging machinery

Digital carton packaging machines not only provide greater output and greater flexibility of equipment, but also add many new features, such as remote maintenance, integration with the company's ERP system, evaluation of production data, and so on. Only a few years ago, no one expected the speed of packaging machinery going digital. With the increasing speed of the electronic process, there is a need to increase the distribution box. However, when the number of cables required for the bus system can be greatly reduced, coupled with the emergence of decentralized computers, it means that there is no need to increase the size of the distribution box. Nowadays, independent distribution boxes are no longer necessary in the packaging industry. Digital carton packaging machinery takes up less space than previous mechanical or electromechanical packaging machines. www.chinacartonmachine.com

The age of automation in the packaging industry began about 20 years ago when all mechanical equipment was equipped with a programmable logic controller, PLC, to control the mechanical shaft of logic functions and actuators. However, the flexibility of the first generation automation equipment is not satisfactory. Consumer products, especially food, have shortened life cycles and diversified products, stimulating greater demand for equipment flexibility. In the second generation automation equipment developed later, more and more functions are transferred from the mechanical power shaft to the electronic drive system, and the logic function is still controlled by the PLC system. Logic functions originally performed by PLC are losing their importance, but now the dominant function is electronic movement. With the improvement of equipment flexibility, the number of servomotors is also increasing. This means that due to different programming languages and systems, physical and logical interfaces are no longer required. Since the mid-1990s, some companies have led the trend of integrated motion control and logic control solutions in the field of carton packaging machinery.