Last month, I went to Hebei to visit an old customer. Director Wang of the winery took me to see the counterfeit goods piled in the corner of the warehouse. The anti-counterfeiting labels on those fake wine bottles could actually scan out the same information as the genuine ones. "Our packaging line is like issuing ID cards to people. Now even counterfeit goods have cloned accounts!" His words were like a heavy hammer, awakening our technical team-it's time to revolutionize the anti-counterfeiting technology of packaging machines.
Our factory has been working in the field of packaging machine anti-counterfeiting for eight years and has long discovered the loopholes of traditional labeling machines. Just like the crisis encountered by a certain milk powder brand last year, counterfeiters recycled old cans and refilled them, and the code verification still showed "genuine". The problem is that the anti-counterfeiting label and packaging process are separated - the label is attached later, giving counterfeiters an opportunity to take advantage.
Now this new system directly embeds the laser coding module into the packaging machine. Have you ever seen eggs stamped? Our packaging machine is like having tens of millions of laser "steel stamps", "carving" the anti-counterfeiting code into the texture of the packaging material at the moment the can is formed. The equipment just delivered to a health care brand in Northeast China last week can complete the micro-carving of the bottom of the can within 0.5 seconds. Those lines that are thinner than a hair are difficult to replicate even with a professional microscope.
What's even more amazing is the dynamic data traceability. Do you remember the scratch cards you played when you were a child? We give each product a "dynamic ID card", and the packaging machine's anti-counterfeiting system will generate random verification factors in real time. A cosmetics customer in Guangdong did a test and took the genuine anti-counterfeiting code to imitate it. As a result, the system recognized the same code and immediately reported it to the police when it queried it for the second time, just like a bank freezing a stolen credit card.
The anti-channeling system has also come up with new tricks. In the past, dealers always complained that regional control was too rigid. Now our packaging machine anti-counterfeiting technology can play "face-changing" - the same batch of products are sent to different regions, and the logistics code on the packaging will automatically switch features like a chameleon. The cross-provincial channeling case that the police cracked last month was locked by the coding data recorded in real time by the packaging machine. The newly installed demonstration line in the workshop is the most convincing. The cosmetics gift boxes flying on the assembly line complete the three processes of laser coding, UV lamination, and visual inspection with a "click" when passing through the packaging machine. Quality inspector Xiao Zhang held a magnifying glass and searched for a long time, but couldn't see where the anti-counterfeiting mark was hidden. "This is not an anti-counterfeiting mark, it is clearly an invisible watermark on the packaging!" His sigh made us both proud and sad - for this "invisible" effect, the optical team spent three months in the laboratory to adjust the laser focal length. What touched me recently was the change of the after-sales team. In the past, engineers brought detectors to repair on-site, but now they have a silver USB flash drive in their bags, which contains the "life files" of each packaging machine's anti-counterfeiting system. Last week, we performed remote diagnosis for a tea customer in Yunnan, directly retrieved the coding pressure curve of the equipment within three years, and found the problem of laser head power attenuation in ten minutes. Customer Mr. Li joked: "You have installed a Chinese medicine pulse-feeding instrument on the machine!"
Standing in the debugging workshop, watching the newly launched packaging machine engraving quantum dot anti-counterfeiting logo on the mineral water bottle cap, I suddenly remembered the bulky anti-counterfeiting equipment I made eight years ago. At that time, the anti-counterfeiting label was like a patch, and now the anti-counterfeiting technology of packaging machines has evolved into the "native birthmark" of the product. We deliberately left an AI interface in the control system, and when the blockchain technology matures, these devices can be transformed into the "neural nodes" of the anti-counterfeiting data chain at any time.
Next time you visit, remember to bring a bottle of water to try our "destructive test". Whether it is roasted with fire, soaked in water, or polished with sandpaper, the anti-counterfeiting logo engraved by the packaging machine is like a blood vessel growing in the material. The deeper the injury, the clearer it is. This may be the ultimate pursuit of packaging machine anti-counterfeiting technology - let the authentic products speak for themselves and leave counterfeiters nowhere to start.
