The development of food packaging machinery industry in China is facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges with the globalization advancement of market economy. Technological innovation will become the biggest driving force of development, in the fierce market competition.
The automation technologies adopted in food packaging machinery mainly include robotics, motion control, transmission control, control systems, machine bus technology, man-machine interface and sensor etc. For example: Different type of industrial robot is applied in the process of food packaging, stacking, loading, unloading and stacking. In the process of food processing and packaging, sensors can be used to monitor food and beverage storage tanks, packaging and filling, heating, cooling, mixing and processing etc. Machine bus technology is widely used in China large-scale food processing plants, which can realize seams less link of unmanned operation, detection and transmission of the production line. Traditional food packaging machinery mostly adopts mechanical control, such as cam distribution shafts etc, and then produced pneumatic control, photoelectric control.
However with the continuous improvement of food processing technology, there are more and more requirements of packaging parameter, and the original control standard cannot be satisfied of development demand, so that puts brand new requirements of application technology. In the past, the food packaging machinery adopted in China which is mechanical electric equipment, integrating light, electricity, machinery, magnetism and gas. At present, attention should be paid to improve the automation level of packaging machinery, combining the research and development of food packaging machinery to computer technology, to realize mechatronics control. Mechatronics mainly regards system viewpoint as core, and uses control principle in the full process to realize the combination of machinery, electronic, information and detection to attain the overall optimal configuration.
In general, microcomputer technology had been introduced into the field of food packaging machinery, which greatly improved the application level of automation ingredient system of food industry and developed intelligent packaging. The development trend of food packaging machinery is: according to the requirements of food packaging, combining fully automatic packaging system, strengthening the control and detection of production process, diagnosis faults, eliminate faults to realize high quality, high efficiency, low consumption and safe production.
