After eight years of equipment debugging, I have seen all kinds of "rollover scenes" - cartons are not aligned during packing, boxes shake into the "Leaning Tower of Pisa" during palletizing, and reprogramming for half an hour when changing specifications... It was not until our factory developed the automated packing and palletizing system that these pain points were really pressed to the ground. Today, let's talk to everyone about what "black technology" is hidden in this system.
In the early years, the biggest headache for customers was the failure of grabbing caused by slight deformation of cartons or displacement of material positions. Our factory's automated packing and palletizing system has made great efforts in this area - the robot arm is equipped with a high-precision visual camera, and with the self-developed intelligent grasping algorithm, the system can automatically correct the grasping angle within 0.5 seconds even if the box is tilted by 5 degrees. Last year, when we were renovating a beverage factory, their workshop director stared at the robot arm palletizing for ten minutes and said: "This thing is more sharp than the eyes of an old worker. It can find the grasping point even if the corners of the foam box are wrinkled!"
Are there seven or eight sizes of packaging boxes piled up in your workshop? Our factory anticipated this problem and designed a "memory library" function for the automated packing and palletizing system. As long as the operator selects the product model on the touch screen, the suction cup clamp can automatically switch the grasping mode, and even mixed-line production of box height differences exceeding 20 cm is no problem. Last month, I visited a customer who makes laundry beads. Their technician demonstrated the switching process from 300g bags to 5kg barrels on site. The whole process took less than three minutes. He smiled and said, "This system is much faster than an intern learning!"
Dynamic path planning: Palletizing can also find the "optimal solution"
Palletizing is not just piling up boxes randomly. Our factory's system has a built-in dynamic path planning module, just like installing "AutoNavi Map" on the robot arm. It can calculate the grasping order, avoid obstacles, and even automatically adjust the stacking structure according to the load of the box in real time. A chemical company used to use manual palletizing, and each layer had to add pads to prevent collapse. Now it uses our automated box loading and palletizing system, which directly saves the cost of pads and increases the utilization rate of warehouse space by nearly 30%. The boss patted the equipment and said, "The stacks made from this will not be blown down even by a typhoon!"
Before Double Eleven last year, an e-commerce warehouse customer made a harsh statement: "If your automated box loading and palletizing system can withstand ten days and ten nights without stopping, I will immediately follow up with an order for twenty units!" What was the result? Our engineers brought camp beds to the factory for monitoring, and the system ran for a full 240 hours at a pace of 15 boxes per minute. The key lies in the triple protection design - automatic speed reduction when the joint motor overheats, instant reverse correction when the conveyor belt jams, and a temperature-adaptive heat dissipation module hidden in the electrical cabinet. The customer later praised it to everyone: "This equipment can carry more than a donkey!" You may not know that this automatic packing and palletizing system now contains improvements "forced" by more than 30 customers. For example, for the low temperature environment of the frozen food factory, we added an anti-condensation coating to the guide rail; for the daily chemical factory to solve the problem of box slippage, we developed a silicone + vacuum dual-mode suction cup; and even at the request of a pet food factory, the operation interface was replaced with a sealed screen to prevent cat hair jams... Mr. Zhou from the technical department often said: "The more customers scold, the faster the iteration!" At present, our factory is busy inserting the Internet of Things module into the automatic packing and palletizing system. Next time you come back, you can probably see the real-time palletizing efficiency on your mobile phone and warn of parts loss. After all, the future of smart production lines is to allow the boss to manage the workshop without having to lie down!
