The future intelligent printing factory is built from these four aspects

Industry 4.0 swept like a storm, triggered a strong response from all walks of life, environmental protection, green development concept has become everyone's consensus; How to improve the current production mode and improve the efficiency of the factory has been the focus of thinking and discussion in the whole society, then how to change the printing and packaging coating industry with relatively low degree of information and automation to meet the challenges of the development of the new era, the answer is to change the direction of smart factories!
Intelligent printing factory is based on the digital factory, the use of Internet of Things technology and monitoring technology to strengthen information management services, improve the controllability of the production process, reduce manual intervention in the production line, and reasonable planning and scheduling. At the same time, set the initial intelligent means and intelligent system and other emerging technologies in one, to build, energy saving, green, environmental protection, comfortable humanized factory. Personally believe that the construction of intelligent printing factory needs to start from the following aspects:
1. Reasonable production layout
For printing factories, a reasonable production layout is to carry out a "U" layout of equipment, materials and logistics in accordance with the flow of the production process, which can reduce unnecessary logistics cross to achieve the best material circulation effect, so that the production process is more smooth. However, the production layout of smart factories should consider more elements:
At the equipment level, under the requirements of national policies, environmental protection equipment is essential, so the emission equipment (printing composite, etc.) should be arranged as centralized as possible, and the reasonable position of environmental protection equipment should be considered according to the layout of its exhaust pipe; Storage system, the storage of smart factories will certainly introduce three-dimensional storage, large storage space utilization rate and high degree of automation, and can automatically docking with the logistics system. When planning the form and location of the three-dimensional warehouse, it is necessary to fully consider the requirements of the production process, such as the soft bag and coating workshop have clean and unclean points, it is necessary to design the three-dimensional warehouse in two areas, and the three-dimensional warehouse of the workshop is only used for the temporary turnover cache of materials, the quantity can be small, but the location should be very particular, and it is convenient for most sections to take and feed materials; The aluminum foil and the matured coil can not contact the tray, it needs to be hung in the air, so that the small unit volume becomes larger, it is necessary to arrange more roadway (stacker); Let's wait.
Intelligent supporting systems, intelligent supporting systems involved in intelligent factories, such as automatic loading and unloading devices, intelligent visual flipping robots, intelligent aging systems, automatic weighing devices, intelligent packaging production lines, etc., need to be considered within the layout range. The weighing device needs to be reasonably designed in the logistics route, and the curing system should be added after the composite section and before the slitter bag section, etc.
Therefore, the production layout of the smart factory is a new consideration of the entire workshop and space, and finally the reasonable distribution of the comprehensive production elements, which is the infrastructure of the smart factory, and has an important role in the smooth operation of its later stage.
2. Digital networking
Workshop digitization is the basic condition of smart factory, only the workshop production information can be digitized to be automatically collected by the acquisition system, gradually accumulate big data, and lay a solid foundation for production analysis. Workshop digitization is to give personnel, materials, order work order code information, can automatically collect equipment status and process parameters, workshop environment, energy consumption and other information, and store the data through the network system.
3. Informatization
Information is the use of software to achieve management ideas, the current printing factory information level is low, electronic means to achieve real-time data acquisition, control and monitoring of the production process from raw material procurement to finished products.
4. Lean production
Lean production and intelligent production are two areas of the concept, the focus is not the same, lean production mainly emphasizes the production process management concept and implementation methods, intelligent production is more focused on technical realization, but the two are complementary relationship.

Many ideas in lean production guide the construction of intelligent production system, lean production of fast switching, reduce waste, visual production and other concepts, but also intelligent production to achieve the process goals. Similarly, methods and means such as equipment interconnection, production scheduling, process collaboration, quality process control, big data analysis, visualization, and predictive maintenance in intelligent production all help to promote the landing and improvement of lean production.
Therefore, the layout and informatization of smart factories are not simple copies of a production mode, but under the guidance of lean production concepts and methods, in-depth analysis of production layout and product processes, and effective improvements are made.
Only by deeply analyzing and changing, and making full use of the technical advantages of intelligent production, finally realize the production and service mode of environmental protection, green and interconnected.
Sum up
In the boom of smart factories, enterprises should not blindly follow the trend of building smart factories, should focus on the medium and long term development strategy of enterprises, combined with the characteristics of their own products, processes, equipment and orders, and reasonably plan the smart factory construction blueprint. On the basis of promoting standardization and standardization, starting from the current urgent contradictions that enterprises themselves need to solve, the construction of smart factories is gradually promoted.