The spring sun shines through the glass skylight on the top of the factory building, and rows of silver-gray intelligent packaging machines are operating in an orderly manner in the workshop. The "click" sound of the robot arm accurately grabbing the material and the low hum of the conveyor belt interweave into a unique industrial rhythm. Wang Wei, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Xinzhan District, Hefei City, and his party stopped in front of the sixth-generation fully automatic packaging equipment newly developed by ply-pack, focusing on the adaptive packaging process of the robot arm for special-shaped products.
"This set of equipment can be compatible with 12 different specifications of packaging requirements through 3D visual recognition technology." Li Gong, the technical team leader of the production department, clicked on the touch screen and entered the parameter instructions. The robot arm that originally handled the square box suddenly hovered for half a second, then switched modes, and completed the film packaging of the cylindrical product in just 3 seconds. Someone in the visiting group whispered: "The core of flexible production is indeed hidden in the details."
At the symposium, the general manager of ply-pack talked about the practical cases of supply chain collaboration. When the projector lit up the distribution map of suppliers in the Yangtze River Delta region, more than 200 flashing spots of light attracted the audience to raise their mobile phones to take pictures. "Last week, a dairy company temporarily added an order. We completed the cross-provincial allocation of aseptic packaging modules in just 38 hours through the supplier inventory sharing system." He slid the tablet to display the real-time data stream, emphasizing that the technological iteration of smart packaging machines is inseparable from the deep collaboration of the industrial chain.
The research team showed great interest in industry benchmark cases. The R&D director called up the monitoring screen of the aseptic workshop of a food giant: the folding frame of the smart packaging machine was expanding and contracting with the rhythm of the production line, just like the liquid metal robot in the science fiction film. "Traditional equipment transformation requires two weeks of shutdown, but through modular design, we allow customers to complete the production line upgrade within 48 hours on the weekend." He tapped the keyboard, and the parts on the three-dimensional drawing were instantly decomposed and reorganized, causing the visiting group to exclaim.
Before leaving, Secretary Wang Wei leaned over in the finished product area to observe an intelligent packaging machine that was about to be shipped to Europe. His fingertips brushed the laser anti-counterfeiting mark on the side of the equipment, and he suddenly turned around and asked: "How to prevent shock during transportation of such precision instruments?" The logistics manager stepped forward quickly and lifted the honeycomb aluminum plate on the inner layer of the packaging box: "This is a buffer material developed in cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Last year, it helped customers reduce the transportation loss rate from 1.7% to 0.2%."
When dusk permeated the factory area, the lights in the assembly workshop were still bright. Technician Xiao Wang squatted beside the seventh-generation prototype, and the teaching pendant in his hand kept flashing. The sweat beads on his forehead were particularly eye-catching under the cold white light, but he didn't bother to wipe them off - tomorrow there are three new energy vehicle parts suppliers coming to inspect the dynamic weighing module. Looking across the glass curtain wall, those silently running smart packaging machines seemed to say: The evolution of this industry is always half a beat faster than the clock.
