In the beverage industry, the packaging process is more automated than in other manufacturing industries. Large equipment is installed and operated to support high-capacity processing, and empty bottles are continuously fed into the machine and arranged neatly, and finally filled with liquid. The automatic filling machine will complete the filling of a bottle in 2-3 seconds. The filled bottle will be automatically capped by the machine and then labeled. The bottle will eventually be transported to the buffer and lined up in a straight line waiting to be picked up by the palletizer. The palletizer will pick up the bottle and put it into a carton, and then another palletizer will stack the carton on the pallet.
Since the workflow of the beverage factory production line is continuous and fast, the total capacity is very high. Therefore, pallet wrapper should be more efficient and automated to ensure that there are no delays and failures. The online
pallet wrapper machine is the most suitable model for this situation. This pallet wrapper machine has a conveyor because it will be attached with a roller or chain conveyor, which is very suitable for connection with the palletizer for fully automatic operations.
The entire production line can run fully automatically under the control of the PLC program. We have reserved a contactor in the PLC to receive the signal from the palletizer. Therefore, when the front line wants to send a pallet to the pallet wrapper machine, the PLC system will first receive the feeding request, and then the PLC program will decide whether to allow feeding based on its own situation.
The in-feed conveyor uses photoelectric sensor to detect the incoming pallets and sends a signal to the PLC, which decides whether to send the pallet to the machine turntable for film wrapping. After the pallet is in place, the machine starts wrapping. The sensor on the gantry detects the height of the goods, and the film wrapping head rises and falls accordingly. The machine is equipped with a film cutter, which can complete film clamping, film cutting, film sweeping, film blowing and other actions without manual operation.
The wrapped pallets will eventually be transported and forward to the outfeed conveyor, and the indicator will remind the workers to unload the packed goods in time through alarm sound and flesh-colored light. The whole workflow is continuous and fast, with high work efficiency and no manual operation required. Compared with the use of semi-automatic turntable pallet wrapping machine, it is estimated that about 3-4 workers can be replaced.