In recent years, with the increasing maturity of packaging technology in China, the functions of packaging machines have been gradually improved. Equipped with different supporting equipment, they can meet the packaging needs of most products on the market. Among them, **material arrangement technology**, as a key link in the modern industrial automatic packaging system, undertakes the important task of achieving efficient and accurate material processing, and plays a crucial role in improving the overall efficiency and quality of packaging operations. Given the significant diversity in product shapes and sizes, how to accurately select a highly adaptable material arrangement and counting method has become a key issue. Against this background, the series of material arrangement and counting technologies developed by Qingdao Yilong have provided a reliable solution to this problem with their unique advantages.
Unordered Material Arrangement and Counting
For many current "bag-in-bag" products on the market, there are usually two methods for counting and sub-packaging. The first is to use the weighing mode of a multi-head combination scale. However, with this counting method, the inner packages fall into the outer packages in a scattered manner, and there is a relatively large error in the total weight. This counting method is not suitable for products that require a fixed number of items and orderly arrangement into bags, such as soymilk stick packages and coffee stick packages. Therefore, the unordered material arrangement and counting technology can be adopted: first, the products are sorted and output in an orderly manner, then counted and converged. This method not only enables counting but also realizes the orderly sorting and arrangement of products.
Gripping and Counting
For inner-packaged products with relatively flat and regular shapes, such as konjac snacks, spicy sticks, and small dried fish, gripping and counting can be used for sub-packaging and counting. It relies on high-precision mechanical gripping devices to accurately and quickly complete product gripping and counting, ensuring a stable and reliable sub-packaging process. Moreover, this counting and sub-packaging mode has extremely high replicability and demonstrates significant comprehensive advantages in the two key dimensions of cost control and efficiency improvement, enabling enterprises to gain considerable economic benefits and operational benefits.
Roller Material Arrangement
For products such as breakfast soymilk and sauces, after undergoing sterilization, cleaning, and drying processes, automatic cartoning is required. At this point, it is relatively difficult for manipulators to directly perform gripping operations. Therefore, the roller material arrangement method can be used as an intermediate transition link. Roller material arrangement technology is particularly suitable for products with large overall dimensions and relatively three-dimensional structures. It can effectively adjust the arrangement order of products, creating favorable conditions for subsequent gripping. This material arrangement method performs excellently in cost control, with relatively low implementation costs. The overall processing efficiency can be improved by increasing the number of rollers, thereby meeting the needs of large-scale production.
Drop Material Arrangement
For products with significant differences in shape, such as toothpaste and single-dose (disposable) products, the drop material arrangement method has demonstrated excellent adaptability. It skillfully utilizes the inherent characteristics of the products and realizes the orderly sorting and collection of products through specific drop tracks and buffer designs. This method is not only easy to operate but also has relatively low equipment costs. Enterprises can flexibly replicate multiple sets of equipment for parallel operation according to actual production conditions, thereby achieving a significant improvement in production efficiency without increasing excessive cost input, providing strong support for enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
The material arrangement and counting technologies developed by Qingdao Yilong have innovatively broken through the bottleneck of material arrangement and counting caused by product diversity. These technologies not only significantly improve the efficiency of packaging operations but also reduce enterprise costs and enhance market competitiveness. In the future, Qingdao Yilong will continue to deepen its efforts in the field of automatic packaging, drive development through innovation, and contribute more to promoting the Chinese packaging industry to reach a higher level.
Post time: Aug-29-2025