Packaging Machinery to System Integration

In the packaging machinery manufacturing process, integration technology is often applied. As the packaging industry involves a wide range of equipment and a wide variety of equipment, the interface between different manufacturers' PLC interfaces, equipment and coders, equipment and IPCs, and transmission methods between information and equipment are used in the process or There are a few problems, which requires manufacturers to consider how to integrate communications and information in automation control in the future, and how to implement them with simple hardware and software.

With the improvement of people's living standards, the demand for packaging is also increasing. After more than 20 years of development, China's packaging machinery has become one of the top ten industries in the machinery industry, providing effective protection for the rapid development of China's packaging industry. Some domestic packaging machinery fills domestic gaps and some products have exports.

However, it should be recognized that China's packaging machinery industry is still at a relatively low level. At present, the export volume of China's domestic packaging machinery is still less than 5% of the total output value. The import amount is about the same as the total output value, which is far from the developed countries. Some high-level packaging equipment still rely on foreign imports to meet domestic demand. This phenomenon of excessive dependence on foreign products has severely restricted the sustainable and stable development of China's packaging industry. The current industry competition is mainly reflected in the following aspects:

1 R&D Capability: There are many companies in the domestic packaging industry, but their own R&D capability is weak, and their investment is insufficient. Whoever has strong research and development capabilities in the industry will continue to produce new products and who can occupy the market.

2 Manufacturing capabilities: Specialized production has become a trend. International packaging machinery manufacturers attach great importance to the common capabilities of packaging machinery and the entire packaging system, which requires manufacturers to adjust their own production capacity in a timely manner to strengthen professional and systematic production capacity.

3 Marketing Capabilities: The packaging industry involves a very wide range, which requires the manufacturers to determine how to subdivide the industry and how to stand out in an industry.

In the packaging machinery manufacturing process, integration technology is often applied. As the packaging industry involves a wide range of equipment and a wide variety of equipment, the interface between different manufacturers' PLC interfaces, equipment and coders, equipment and IPCs, and transmission methods between information and equipment are used in the process or There are a few problems, which requires manufacturers to consider how to integrate communications and information in automation control in the future, and how to implement them with simple hardware and software. The focus of attention lies in: what platform is used by automation vendors, and what kind of standards are used for docking different products.

When it comes to the packaging machinery manufacturing process, one cannot but mention MES (Manufacturing Execution System). The original idea of ​​the MES is very good. It can provide managers with the implementation of the plan, tracking, and the current status of all resources and equipment. In recent years, the application of MES seems to have entered a bottleneck period, and the current bottleneck is how to perform and achieve the best state. When Xiamen Yangxing Xingye Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd. implements tobacco business projects, customers apply to MES, but in the implementation process, they will encounter various problems, such as how to optimize the whole workshop manufacturing process, and whether the optimized process is reasonable Whether or not the product can be traced back to the production process, the faulty part, and how to make mistakes based on the barcode; when the same production line in the tobacco sorting process needs to mix and produce nearly 100 different types of cigarettes, how to automatically check the errors in the production process, etc. .

Most of the industrial equipment is controlled by automation (mainly using PLC), while the mainstream brands of PLC are currently on the market with more than a dozen. Xiamen Yangxing Xingye Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd. is in the process of tobacco sorting and packaging equipment manufacturing. The main equipment PLC adopts SIEMENS S7. -400, S7-200. In contrast, system integration technology is much more complex than industrial automation technology. System integration technology integrates separate devices (or devices from multiple vendors), functions, and information into a connected, unified, and coordinated system through a structured, integrated cabling system and computer network technology. To achieve full sharing and achieve centralized, efficient and convenient management. The key to system integration is to solve the problems of interconnection and interoperability between systems. It is a multi-vendor, multi-protocol, and application-oriented architecture. This needs to address all the integration-oriented issues related to subsystems, organization management, and staffing, such as interfaces, protocols, system platforms, and application software between various types of devices and subsystems. For example, how to connect PLC interfaces of different vendors' devices and how To dock the docking interface between the packing equipment and the coding equipment.

If the industrial equipment control system uses the same brand of PLC, it can ensure that the interface, protocol, and data exchange between the main equipment and each sub-equipment can be unblocked, ensuring that no data loss, signal interference, and other problems occur in the production process, thereby realizing production. The process is efficient and accurate. If different PLC brands are used, they are less open in terms of openness. Different manufacturers have different standards and platforms, which increases the difficulty of docking between different PLCs.

The higher the system integration requirements, the higher the industrial automation requirements. System integrators will face further challenges in the future: how to bring all the equipment together, and the overall system cost is low, high efficiency, stable performance, and scalability and maintainability. In addition, it also involves how to apply automatic identification technology, speech recognition technology, RFID technology to the packaging manufacturing industry, and how to use these technologies in the future. The Internet of Things is a popular topic in China. In the future, the packaging manufacturing industry will introduce more Internet of Things technologies. This requires that the standards of different products from different manufacturers tend to be consistent, so that centralized, efficient, and convenient management can be achieved. .