I am Zhou Tao, an electrical engineer in the factory. At two o'clock in the morning last Friday, I received an emergency call from a customer in Zhejiang Province-the packaging automatic case packer they had just put into production suddenly "struck". When I rushed to the scene with a toolbox, the workshop director Lao Wu was circling around the equipment with half a pack of cigarettes in his hand: "Mr. Zhou, this machine has just been debugged, and all the goods from the e-commerce promotion are stuck here!"
The moment I opened the control cabinet, I actually had a bottom line in my heart. Our packaging automatic case packer has a built-in fault prediction module, and sure enough, I saw a flashing warning code on the touch screen: E-07, the positioning deviation of the robot arm exceeds the threshold. But strangely, the equipment automatically switched to safe mode, and more than 200 boxes of semi-finished products were neatly stacked in the buffer zone, which was much better than the "paralysis caused by freezing" of a certain imported brand last year.
"The problem lies here!" Following the sound of the equipment running, I touched the end of the conveyor belt and found that the guide wheel was stuck by the customer's new special-shaped packaging box. Just as I was about to reset it manually, the packaging automatic case packing machine suddenly "beeped" and started the self-test program - the flexible adaptation system began to dynamically adjust the track spacing, and the robotic arm synchronously switched the gripping angle, and production resumed in less than ten minutes. Old Wu stared at the automatically repaired production line and smacked his lips: "Is this machine a spirit?"
In fact, there is no metaphysics, it is all the credit of the dynamic compensation algorithm. This system was developed by us after eight months of hard work, and it can monitor the thickness, hardness and other parameters of the packaging material in real time. Last month, when debugging equipment in Qingdao, we showed our magic: the strength of the environmentally friendly boxes made of recycled paper by customers was unstable, and traditional equipment often crushed the boxes. However, our automatic packaging machine can automatically adjust the sealing pressure like a master kneading dough, and reduce the damage rate to 1/3 of the industry average.
What makes me particularly proud is the intelligent error correction mechanism. Last year, when I was making a plan for a milk powder company, their quality inspection supervisor asked a tricky question: "What if the can body is packed with the coding side facing inward?" Now you see - when the robot arm grabs the can body, the visual sensor will scan 360 degrees like a banknote detector, and immediately flip and correct it if the coding direction is wrong. During the inspection last week, it was found that this production line had not had a directional error for three consecutive months.
At four o'clock in the morning, the workshop was so quiet that the sound of the servo motor could be heard. While I was packing up my tools, I chatted with Lao Wu: "Do you know why we dare to open the multi-specification simultaneous processing function for the equipment?" Seeing him shake his head, I pointed to the mixed gift boxes being packed and explained: "These nut jars of different sizes can be automatically identified and classified by the equipment, and can also be dynamically arranged and combined according to the box size. Last year's Double Eleven, a customer in Shanghai used this function and received 30% more urgent orders without adding equipment."
At dawn, a new pop-up window popped up on the equipment display - it is recommended to replace the worn parts of conveyor belt No. 3. This is the "speaking" of the intelligent error correction mechanism. It can predict the life of parts two weeks in advance by analyzing 100,000 operation data. Lao Wu took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the prompt message: "Replace it tomorrow! In the past, such minor problems always had to wait until the equipment broke down before being dealt with, but now it can be considered proactive."
On the way back, I looked through the equipment operation log and found that the packaging automatic case packing machine autonomously generated 3 sets of emergency plans during the failure. This is thanks to our dynamic compensation algorithm, which is like an experienced master. When encountering an emergency, it does not stop the machine and alarm rigidly, but first tries to self-correct within a safe range.
Perhaps in the eyes of experts, the most eye-catching thing about this equipment is its industry-leading speed of XX boxes per minute. But as an engineer who personally participated in the debugging, I value its ability to "make complexity simple" more. From the emergency repairs in the early morning to the customers' gradually relaxed brows, the packaging automatic case packing machine is using real technical strength to redefine what is called a "reliable production partner".
