When I was awakened by the alarm at three o'clock in the morning, I was dreaming of the nightmare of last year's Mid-Autumn Festival-the egg yolk cakes of a time-honored mooncake factory were crackling down in the automatic packaging system, and the pastry residues covered the photoelectric sensor tightly. I picked up the phone and saw that it was indeed an equipment warning from a Suzhou customer, but this time the system self-inspection report made me laugh out loud: "The accumulation of cake crumbs was detected and the self-cleaning program has been started."
This automatic packaging system that can "scrub" itself was obtained after eight months of hard work. Last year, when debugging at the Cantonese mooncake factory, the master, Lao Chen, held a cigarette in his mouth and shook his head: "Your robot is fast, but can the pastry stand such a sway?" This is really heartbreaking. Traditional equipment really can't cure these delicate products, until we added "Tai Chi Kung Fu" to the multi-axis linkage technology - the robot arm automatically detects the center of gravity of the product when it is running, and maintains horizontal displacement like the master holding the steamer, so that the lava mooncake can be safely placed on the support.
Speaking of technological breakthroughs, the instant coffee factory I visited last month was really eye-opening. Their strip packaging bags always "somersault" when the conveyor belt turns, and there has been no cure for 20 years. The dynamic compensation algorithm we added to the automatic packaging system is like installing a conditioned reflex nerve for the equipment. Now, let alone turning, even if it is a sudden acceleration or emergency stop, the suction cup can adjust the suction strength within 0.1 seconds. The workshop director Lao Zhou stared at the monitoring screen and laughed: "This system reacts faster than my cat!"
What I am proud of recently is the remote upgrade for a certain infant formula factory. Their automatic packaging system was installed three years ago, and they were worried that it would not be able to keep up with the new short and fat cans. Unexpectedly, we had already reserved a modular design interface and directly sent them a new specification of gripper module. The customer followed the video tutorial and completed the replacement in 20 minutes. When he heard about this, Mr. Li from the next group slapped his thigh and said, "I should have thought of it earlier! It's just like changing the camera module of a mobile phone!" Of course, technology is not an easy job. The emergency support of the Northeast Freeze-dried Fruit Factory last week is still vivid in my mind: in the workshop at minus 30 degrees, the grease of the automatic packaging system froze into ice chips. We changed the low-temperature formula overnight and added aviation material-grade antifreeze. Now their equipment can "waltz" in the cold chain workshop, and the operation of the robotic arm is three points smoother than at normal temperature. Before leaving get off work, the marketing department forwarded a thank-you letter. The Suzhou customer who was once driven crazy by the puff pastry residue has now doubled its monthly production capacity and reduced its breakage rate to the industry average. The sentence in the letter made my eyes warm: "Your automatic packaging system that can learn has passed on the skills of our masters."
I closed my notebook and heard the debugging sound of new equipment from the other end of the workshop. It sounded like they were trying to assemble chocolate gift boxes. Amid the clanging sound, I seemed to hear the robot saying: No matter how big or small you are, you have to line up here!
