Packaging Technology Trends in the E-Commerce Era

Packaging is a dynamic process that is often defined as product manufacturing, protection, distribution, and use. What packaging is needed in the era of e-commerce? Members of the American Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Association have expressed a series of opinions on recent packaging technologies.
1. Improvement of machines from ergonomics: Packaging machinery manufacturers generally believe that the working environment will be more ergonomic, and that advances in processing and user requirements will improve the interface between people and machines.
2. Remote diagnosis via modem: Modern packaging systems allow connection to the Internet and can be managed via the Internet. This technique is not on-line packaging operations on the web, but means that if necessary, the packaging equipment manufacturer can implement fault diagnosis and correction from a distance.
3. In order to deal with new types of packaging To develop new types of packaging equipment New types of packaging require new packaging equipment. Currently these new tasks can only be accomplished with specially modified equipment. The manufacturing plant is working on the next generation of machines and it is necessary to produce equipment that can effectively perform the functions of molding, filling, sealing, packaging and labeling for the latest containers.
4. Equipment integration for small-batch production will be more efficient and take up less space. In general, packaging equipment manufacturers believe that equipment integration will move toward small-volume production. The demand for mass production in the market will be even less, and more is the requirement for a single production line to meet the requirements for containers of different sizes and different sizes.
5. Increases and harmonization of standards: Both packaging equipment manufacturers in the United States and Canada received both good and bad news when looking at operating standards. On the one hand, they all expect to increase manufacturing standards. On the other hand, they also hope that the coordination of standards can be put in place so that they can design and manufacture equipment more efficiently and economically to meet the requirements of users who use the same equipment in different countries.
6. Flexible settings will replace fixed settings, and changes in raw materials and containers can be adjusted during production Packaging equipment manufacturers want to reduce the cost by reducing the types of raw materials and increasing the content of recycling to contradict the idea of ​​direct operation. Precision-manufactured machines with a narrow range of adaptation are challenged to adjust the machine to handle very thin materials and containers while increasing the amount of recycling. In the next few years, setting up an operational machine will be replaced by a "raw material-sensitive" machine that can self-adjust at the full speed to accommodate material changes rather than stop adjustments.
7. PLCs (programmable controllers) are replaced by PCs (personal computers), and as more and more packaging machines are controlled by computers, Intel or similar processors will become familiar trademarks for packaging machinery. Packaging equipment manufacturers generally believe that computers will accomplish most of the functional operations, monitoring, diagnostics, calibration, and documentation currently implemented by programmable controllers.
8. The equipment will increase its reliance on technologies such as laser, sonar, ultrasound, radio frequency and wireless infrared: When we enter the new century, many important packaging equipment will rely on wireless technology to start and respond to changes in products and raw materials.
9. Packaging equipment combined with chemistry or biology will be widely used: When packaging manufacturers recognize the potential of chemical or biological properties (such as the detection of toxic microorganisms on products, packaging or equipment surfaces), only a few people think that in the future 10 It has been widely used during the year.
10. Eliminating "hard copy" of failure detection manuals and upgrades: Even though there are some members of the Association of Packaging Equipment Manufacturers who pass troubleshooting manuals and upgrades online, disagreeing and agreeing to replace hard copy documents with other forms in the survey is not strong. . However, the emergence of external networks (users entering via passwords) seems to be the common choice in the next few years.