Most of our current unmanned chemical plants in China are injection molding workshops, sheet metal workshops, or packaging workshops. Because these processes are easy to achieve full automation, many ready-made solutions should be available now. For example, for sheet metal, companies such as Tox and Fageseida in Spain are developing more flexible and easily configurable sheet metal equipment and production lines. In terms of injection molding, injection molding machines, combined with loading and unloading robots and conveyor belts, are already relatively mature solutions, A more visible solution for the packaging part is the combination of palletizing machines and automatic sorting.
With the overall stable and healthy development of the Chinese economy, the plastic machinery industry in China has achieved leapfrog development after the Tenth Five Year Plan, expanding its industrial scale, and increasing its main economic indicators year by year for eight consecutive years. Its development speed and main economic indicators are among the top among the 194 industries under the jurisdiction of the machinery industry. The plastic machinery industry is constantly developing and growing, with an annual manufacturing capacity of about 200000 units (sets), a complete range of categories, and ranking first in the world.
Creating a "unmanned" plastic machinery industry in China
After years of development, China's plastic machinery industry has initially formed a relatively concentrated production cluster. Mainly distributed in the three major regions of the Bohai Rim, Yangtze River Delta, and Pearl River Delta. Since entering the 21st century, China's plastic machinery industry has achieved sustained and rapid development, making it one of the fastest growing industries in the country. Its main economic indicators rank among the forefront of the national machinery industry.
In recent years, China's plastic machinery industry has accelerated the development of new products and technologies by introducing, digesting and absorbing advanced manufacturing technologies from abroad. In the future, the technology of plastic machinery industry products will mainly develop around the following aspects:
Miniaturization is an important development direction for various products in the future, as evidenced by increasing market demand, which has shown significant development momentum in sectors such as electronics, information, electrical appliances, healthcare, and biology. Some countries are already developing plastic tube production equipment with a diameter of less than 0.5mm to replace human blood vessels.
For a long time, the uniform and fixed models and functional specifications of plastic machinery have been unable to meet market demand. Due to the frequent changes in the requirements for plastic products produced by customers and the consideration of effective investment in operation, the plastic machinery industry needs to provide them with the most adaptable plastic machinery equipment in the market; On the other hand, with the rapid evolution from industrialization to commercialization, large-scale and mass production is also an inevitable law in the manufacturing industry.
The development of automated and intelligent plastic machinery products will significantly improve the operational stability and reliability of plastic machinery, effectively improve the production functions of plastic machinery with high quality, high efficiency, and low consumption, and provide a solid technical foundation for realizing unmanned workshops and factories.
Linking plastic machinery with high-end manufacturing
With the overall stable and healthy development of the Chinese economy, the plastic machinery industry in China has achieved leapfrog development after the Tenth Five Year Plan, expanding its industrial scale, and increasing its main economic indicators year by year for eight consecutive years. Its development speed and main economic indicators are among the top among the 194 industries under the jurisdiction of the machinery industry. The plastic machinery industry is constantly developing and growing, with an annual manufacturing capacity of about 200000 units (sets), a complete range of categories, and ranking first in the world.
At the same time, we should strengthen the concept of the industrial chain system, extend plastic machinery to the upstream petrochemical industry and downstream product processing industry, and consider plastic machinery as an important part of the new material industry chain, in order to closely integrate with major national needs and equipment manufacturing industry revitalization, and break away from the relatively weak position of the plastic machinery industry.
In addition, if the country can treat plastic machinery as the basic machinery of industry like machine tools (plastic machinery processing polymer materials, machine tool processing metal materials), as an important component of the national equipment industry, and provide special support and preferential policies for advanced plastic machinery like CNC machine tools, in order to promote the plastic machinery industry to play a more obvious leverage role and make greater contributions to the development of China's equipment industry.
