What is the introduction of packaging machine?

With innovative packaging machinery is the emergence of new packaging materials, and packaging technology and development. Chinese invention of papermaking technology, provided the conditions in history for paper packaging production. 1850 World paper prices fell, the paper began to be used for food packaging. 1852 American Wally invented paper bag machine made, which appeared paper products machinery. 1861 Germany established the world's first packaging machinery factory, and production in 1911 fully automatic forming, filling and sealing machine. China packaging machinery started late, after 20 years of development, China's packaging machinery industry has become one of the top ten industries machinery for the rapid development of China's packaging industry to provide effective protection, some packaging machinery to fill the gap, has been able to substantially to meet the needs of the domestic market, some products are exported. China packaging machinery exports less than 5% of GDP, imports and output but quite probably, a far cry from the developed countries. China's packaging machinery industry products from the product structure, China breeds only more than 1300 kinds of packaging machinery, supporting a small number, the lack of precision and large-scale production of the product, can not meet the market demand: product quality gap between the performance of low product performance, stability and poor reliability, unsightly appearance, surface roughness, many parts of poor quality, short life, low reliability, affecting the overall quality of the product; from the enterprise situation, the lack of domestic packaging machinery industry leading enterprises, large production scale, product high grade small enterprises; from product development, China is still basically stuck in the test stage of imitation, self-development capacity is weak, the lack of research and production base in the trial, research funding accounts for only 1% of sales, up 8-10% while foreign . China packaging machinery advanced technology level compared to the overall technological level of the country in 20 years behind the competition in terms of product development, performance, quality, reliability, and service at a disadvantage.

Under the premise of continuous development in the packaging industry is not, you can see the contradictions in the packaging machinery industry, companies can not cope with the changing situation, the development of ideas and the development of the situation incompatible industry; technological innovation capability is weak, slow progress in technology, new product development is still not out of imitation research tracking the situation fundamentally, less competitive, economic growth, improvement in efficiency is still mainly rely on the scale of pull. In addition, there are still some packaging machinery companies extensive management, meticulous management has not been implemented; the market, competition, sense of urgency is not strong, the service market, awareness of customer service and the development of a sense of urgency, responsibility is not strong, some packaging machinery business incompatible between people's understanding and use of the law of market economy and so on. The face of adverse factors, the most urgent is to change the packaging machinery industry in the development of enterprises, enterprises should go look at a new starting point and solve the above contradictions and problems, changes in development philosophy, and strengthen independent innovation and enhance market awareness, vigorously promote the development of the domestic packaging machinery industry. To change the status of the packaging machinery industry to promote the development of packaging machinery industry, while making great strides to pay attention to the development trend of packaging machinery.

With the continuous development and progress of science and technology, a variety of food products appear on the packaging technology and equipment are put forward new requirements, packaging machinery plays an increasingly important role in the circulation areas. Packaging Machinery increasingly competitive, and highly automated, intelligent, versatile, high-efficiency, low consumption of packaging equipment increasingly favored by the industry. Process automation is increasing. Automation technology accounted for more than 50% in packaging production line, the extensive use of computer design and mechatronics control, improve flexibility and agility productivity, equipment, increasing the robot to complete the complex packaging operation. Each robot controlled by a separate computer, camera surveillance packaging operation and feedback to the computer to adjust the range of motion to ensure the quality of packaging. Soon packaging machinery is about to innovation in emerging industries. Packaging and Food Machinery foreign high levels of countries, mainly the United States, Germany, Japan, Italy and the United Kingdom. The German packaging machinery in the design, manufacture and technical performance and other aspects of the leading position.

Any machine used for packaging

Equipment on a pharmaceutical packaging line

Packaging machinery is used throughout all packaging operations, involving primary packages to distribution packs. This includes many packaging processes: fabrication, cleaning, filling, sealing, combining, labeling, overwrapping, palletizing.

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Some packaging operations cannot be accomplished without packaging equipment. For example many packages include heat seals to prepare or seal a package. Heat sealers are needed, even in slow labor-intensive operations.

With many industries, the effectiveness of the heat seal is critical to product safety so the heat sealing operation must closely controlled with documented Verification and validation protocols. Food, drug, and medical regulations require consistent seals on packages. Proper equipment is needed.

Automation

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Packaging operations can be designed for variable package sizes and forms or for handling only uniform packages, where the machinery or packaging line is adjustable between production runs. Certainly slow manual operations allow workers to be flexible to package variation but also some automated lines can handle significant random variation.[1]

Moving from manual operations, through semi-automatic operations to fully automated packaging lines offers advantages to some packagers.[2] Other than the obvious control of labor costs, quality can be more consistent, and throughput can be optimized.[3]

Efforts at packaging line automation increasingly use programmable logic controllers[4] and robotics.[5]

Large fully automatic packaging lines can involve several pieces of major equipment from different manufactures as well as conveyors and ancillary equipment. Integrating such systems can be a challenge. Often consultants or external engineering firms are used to coordinate large projects.

Choosing packaging machinery

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Choosing packaging machinery includes an assessment of technical capabilities, labor requirements, worker safety, maintainability, serviceability, reliability, ability to integrate into the packaging line, capital cost, floorspace, flexibility (change-over, materials, multiple products, etc.), energy requirements, quality of outgoing packages, qualifications (for food, pharmaceuticals, etc.), throughput, efficiency, productivity, ergonomics, return on investment, etc.

Packaging machinery can be:

1. purchased as standard, off-the-shelf equipment
2. purchased custom-made or custom-tailored to specific operations
3. purchased refurbished and upgraded
4. manufactured or modified by in-house engineers and maintenance staff

Double chamber vacuum packer

In addition to purchasing equipment, leasing options are often attractive.[6]

Machinery must be compatible with the expected operating conditions. For example, cold temperature operations require special considerations.[7] Some industries must perform periodic washdowns of all equipment. This high pressure chemical washing puts special demands on machinery and control systems.[8][9] Condensation within closed portions of machinery can also be problematic.

Machinery needs to keep control of the product being packaged. For example, powders need to be stable, liquids cannot slosh out,[10] etc.

Some manufacturers decide not to do their own packaging but to employ contract packagers to perform all or some operations. Capital, labor, and other costs are outsourced.

Types of machinery

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Checkweigher Milk bag form-fill-seal operation

Packaging machines may be of the following general types:

Function

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Packaging is necessary to protect products, and is now done mainly through the use of packaging machinery. Machinery plays increasingly important roles such as:

• Improve labor productivity. Sliding blister sealing machine packaging machinery is much faster than manual packaging. One good example of this is the candy packing machine. Here, hundreds to thousands of candies can be wrapped in minutes.
• Ensure packaging quality. Mechanical packaging is particularly important for exported goods to achieve consistent packaging.
• Handle specialized requirements, such as vacuum packaging, inflatable packaging, skin packaging and pressure filling.
• Reduce labor and improve working conditions for bulky/heavy products.
• Protect workers from health effects brought by dust, toxic/hazardous products and prevent environmental contamination.
• Reduce packaging costs and save storage costs for loose products, such as cotton, tobacco, silk, linen, etc., by simply using compression packaging.
• Reliably ensure product hygiene by eliminating hand contact with food and medicines.

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References

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Books, general references

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• Yam, K.L., "Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology", John Wiley & Sons, 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-08704-6
• Soroka, W, Illustrated Glossary of Packaging Terminology Institute of Packaging Professionals, [1]
• Soroka, W, "Fundamentals of Packaging Technology", Chapter 19 – Packaging Machinery, IoPP, 2002, ISBN 1-930268-25-4
• Henry J R, "Packaging Machinery Handbook", 2012, ISBN 1479274518
• Kay, M.G., 2012, Material Handling Equipment, Retrieved 2014-10-02.

• Packaging machines at Wikimedia Commons