Method for accurately controlling cigarette outlet sequence and conveying of outlets of multiple packaging machines

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for accurately controlling the cigarette outlet sequence and conveying of outlets of multiple packaging machines, when the number of cigarette cartons ordered by a client A is different, the cigarette cartons are divided into multiple different order numbers and conveyed to the openings of the packaging machines, the order numbers sent by the client A to the multiple packaging machines are issued and stored in a stack at the same time, the multiple packaging machines normally operate for packaging, and the number of the cigarette cartons ordered by the client A is smaller than the number of the cigarette cartons ordered by the client A; after any one packaging machine at the cigarette pushing opening completes packaging of the order number of the corresponding client A, a cigarette pushing request order number is sent to the sorting line, after the sorting line receives the order number, the order number is compared with the order number of the client A stored in the stack, if the order number is equal to the order number of the client A stored in the stack, a cigarette pushing allowing signal is sent to the packaging machine, and after the packaging machine receives the cigarette pushing allowing signal, the cigarette pushing request is sent to the sorting line. The cigarette pushing action is completed, the sorting line is informed that the cigarette pushing signal is received, the packaging machine clears the cigarette pushing request order number at the same time, and the sorting line clears the cigarette pushing permission signal. By means of the method, the disc stacking and loading efficiency can be effectively improved, it is guaranteed that cigarette packets of customers are synchronously discharged, and meanwhile the loading and delivery efficiency is improved.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The invention relates to a method for accurately controlling the order of cigarette outlets and conveying of multiple packaging machines, and belongs to the technical field of cigarette sorting and packaging. Background Art

[0002] With the development of social economy and the improvement of people's living standards, the market demand for cigarettes as daily consumer goods has shown a trend of continuous growth. The traditional cigarette packaging method can no longer meet the market's new demands for efficiency, automation and intelligence, especially the compatible packaging of full-grade standard cigarettes and traditional standard cigarettes, making the upgrading and transformation of tobacco cigarette sorting different standards a new favorite in the market in recent years.

[0003] Under the existing cigarette sorting model, when the sorting line needs to accurately control the process from cigarette packs being packaged by two or more packaging machines to being stacked or loaded onto trucks, it is difficult to control as the packaging machines and sorting line equipment belong to different manufacturers. This results in an uncertain order in which cigarette packs from the same customer leave the packaging machine, which in turn leads to a significant reduction in the efficiency of cigarette distribution and operations.

[0004] Moreover, in the current sorting equipment, in the mode where a single sorting line is equipped with multiple packaging machines, the packaging machine outlet is equipped with at least two groups of people to code the cigarettes. When the order of cigarette packs for the same customer is chaotic, the labor and time costs will be greatly increased. Summary of the invention

[0005] The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for accurately controlling the order and delivery of cigarettes from multiple packaging machine outlets. The method can achieve the same cigarette output effect for the same customer's cigarette cartons, reduce the labor intensity of the delivery personnel of the tobacco delivery system, and improve the delivery efficiency.

[0006] The technical solution of the present invention is a method for accurately controlling the order and delivery of cigarettes from multiple packaging machine outlets. According to the sales tasks of customers of the tobacco system on that day, the information system optimizes and issues the sorting data of the day. When the number of cigarettes ordered by the same customer is different, it will be split into multiple different order numbers and delivered to each packaging machine outlet. When the first order number of customer A passes the coding and merges, a request for allowing the order number of customer A to be issued is sent to the information system. After receiving the request, the information system issues the order numbers of customer A to multiple packaging machines at the same time and stores them in the corresponding stack. The packaging machine performs packaging in normal operation. After any packaging machine at the cigarette pushing port completes packaging corresponding to the order number of customer A, it sends a cigarette pushing request signal to the sorting line. The cigarette pushing signal is the order number of customer A assigned to the packaging machine. After receiving the order number, the sorting line compares it with the order number of customer A stored in the stack. If they are equal, a cigarette pushing permission signal is sent to the packaging machine. After receiving the cigarette pushing permission signal, the packaging machine completes the cigarette pushing action and returns to inform the sorting line that the cigarette pushing signal has been received. At the same time, the packaging machine clears the cigarette pushing request order number, and the sorting line clears the cigarette pushing permission signal. When the cigarette order number issued by the packaging machine is greater than the order number of customer A stored in the stack, the order number information about customer A in the corresponding stack of the packaging machine is cleared. When the order number information about customer A in all stacks is 0, the sorting line sends a message to the information system allowing the next customer order number to be issued.

[0007] In the aforementioned method for accurately controlling the order and transportation of cigarette outlets of multiple packaging machines, when the packaging machine is a full-size packaging machine and has unpacking and closing modes, when the cigarette pushing order number sent by the packaging machine to the sorting line is any one of several order numbers corresponding to customer A, the sorting line determines that the order number sent is the order number of customer A, and then sends a signal to the packaging machine to allow cigarette pushing.

[0008] Beneficial effects of the present invention: Compared with the prior art, after adopting the above-mentioned technical solution, the present invention ensures that multiple packaging machines can complete the current customer's order number and complete the cigarette pushing action before they can further complete the next customer's cigarette pushing action, ensuring that multiple order numbers of the same customer are continuously delivered. By adding a two-way protocol between the sorting line and the packaging machine, the cigarette pushing process of the packaging machine is controlled, and the cigarette cartons of the same customer enter the thermoplastic port at the cigarette pushing port at the same time, achieving the same cigarette output effect. It breaks through the problem that when two traditional packaging machines are running, they cannot simultaneously take into account whether the cigarette cartons of the same customer are packaged and continue to work, reducing the labor intensity of the delivery personnel of the tobacco delivery system and improving the delivery efficiency. This method can effectively improve the efficiency of the code plate and loading, ensure that the customer's cigarette packs are delivered synchronously, improve the convenience of finding cigarette packs, and at the same time improve the efficiency of loading and delivery. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0009] Figure 1 Flow chart of the method of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0010] The present invention is further described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and embodiments, but they are not intended to limit the present invention.

[0011] The embodiment of the present invention is a method for accurately controlling the order and delivery of cigarettes from multiple packaging machine outlets. According to the sales tasks of customers of the tobacco system on the day, the information system optimizes and issues the sorting data of the day. When the number of cigarette cartons ordered by the same customer is different, they will be split into multiple different order numbers and delivered to the outlets of each packaging machine. When the cigarette cartons corresponding to the first order number are combined after the coding, a request for allowing the order number of customer A to be issued is sent to the information system. After receiving the request, the order numbers of customer A to multiple packaging machines are issued at the same time and stored in the corresponding stacks of each packaging machine. Multiple packaging machines run and package normally, and the G The two-way protocol (two-way protocol between the substation and the packaging machine) formulated in the form of SD substations, after any packaging machine at the cigarette pushing port completes the packaging of the order number corresponding to customer A, it sends a cigarette pushing request signal to the sorting line. The cigarette pushing signal is the order number of customer A assigned to the packaging machine. After receiving this order number, the sorting line compares it with the order number of customer A stored in the stack. If they are equal, it sends a cigarette pushing permission signal to the packaging machine. After receiving the cigarette pushing permission signal, the packaging machine completes the cigarette pushing action and returns to inform the sorting line that the cigarette pushing signal has been received. At the same time, the packaging machine clears the cigarette pushing request order number, and the sorting line clears the cigarette pushing permission signal; When the cigarette order number issued by the packaging machine is greater than the order number of customer A stored in the stack, the order number information about customer A in the corresponding stack of the packaging machine is cleared. When the order number information about customer A in all stacks is 0, the sorting line sends a message to the information system allowing the next customer order number to be issued.

[0012] When the packaging machine is a full-size packaging machine and has unpacking and closing modes, when the cigarette pushing order number sent by the packaging machine to the sorting line is any one of the several order numbers corresponding to customer A, the sorting line determines that the order number sent is the order number of customer A, and then sends a signal to the packaging machine to allow cigarette pushing.

[0013] The following takes a sorting line with two packaging machines (packaging machine I and packaging machine II) as an example. When the sorting data received by the sorting line includes customer A and customer B, the order numbers corresponding to customer A are 001, 002 and 003, and the order numbers corresponding to customer B are 004, 005 and 006, among which order numbers 001 and 004 are assigned to packaging machine I, and order numbers 002, 003, 005 and 006 are assigned to packaging machine II. Packaging machine I corresponds to stack I, and packaging machine II corresponds to stack II.

[0014] When the current customer is customer A, after the cigarette cartons corresponding to customer A's first order number 001 are merged after coding, a message is sent to the information system allowing customer A's order number to be issued. After receiving the permission message, the information system simultaneously issues customer A's order numbers to the two packaging machines (packaging machine I and packaging machine II) and stores them in stack I and stack II, where order number 001 information is stored in stack I, and order numbers 002 and 003 information are stored in stack II.

[0015] When packaging machine I completes order number 001, it sends a cigarette pushing request signal to the sorting line. The cigarette pushing signal is the order number 001 of customer A assigned to packaging machine I. After receiving this order number 001, the sorting line compares it with the order number 001 of customer A stored in stack I. Since order number 001 exists in stack I, the two order numbers are equal. At this time, the sorting line sends a cigarette pushing permission signal to packaging machine I. After receiving the cigarette pushing permission signal, packaging machine I completes the cigarette pushing action and returns to inform the sorting line that the cigarette pushing signal has been received. At the same time, packaging machine I clears the information about requesting cigarette pushing order number 001, and the sorting line clears the cigarette pushing permission signal related to order number 001.

[0016] Since packaging machine I has completed the distribution of order number 001 to its customer A, it will proceed to the next customer, customer B's order number 004. When the cigarette pushing order number 004 sent by packaging machine I to the sorting line is 004, after the sorting line receives this order number 004, it compares it with the order number 001 of the current customer A stored in stack I. Since the cigarette pushing order number 004 sent by packaging machine I at this time is greater than the order number 001 stored in stack I, the order number information 001 related to customer A in stack I corresponding to packaging machine I will be cleared. At this time, the order number information in stack I is 0, but since stack II still contains order number information 002 and 003 related to customer A, the order number information related to customer A in all stacks (stack I and stack II) is not cleared at this time, so the information system will not send the order number information (004, 005 and 006) related to customer B to stack I and stack II.

[0017] Since the new cigarette pushing order number 004 sent by packaging machine 1 does not exist in stack 1, the order number information is not equal, and the sorting line will not send a signal allowing cigarette pushing to packaging machine 1, and packaging machine 1 cannot perform subsequent cigarette pushing actions.

[0018] After packaging machine II completes packaging and pushing of order numbers 002 and 003, packaging machine II will proceed to order numbers 005 and 006. When packaging machine II completes order number 005 or 006, it will send a request to the sorting line to push order number 005 or 006. After receiving this order number, the sorting line will compare it with the order numbers 002 and 003 of the current customer A stored in stack II. Since 005 or 006 are both greater than 002 and 003, the order number information 002 and 003 related to customer A in the corresponding stack II of packaging machine II will be cleared. At this time, the order number information in stack II is 0. So far, the order number information related to customer A in all stacks is 0, indicating that customer A's order has been completed. At this time, the sorting line sends the order number information (order numbers 004, 005 and 006) to the information system to allow the next customer - customer B to be issued.

[0019] During the whole process, although packaging machine I has completed the packaging of order number 004 before packaging machine II completes order numbers 002 and 003, packaging machine I cannot push cigarettes for order number 004 before order numbers 002 and 003 complete pushing cigarettes. This results in the sorting line continuously sending out order numbers corresponding to customer A, which can effectively improve the coding and loading efficiency, ensure that the customer's cigarette packages are shipped out synchronously, improve the convenience of finding cigarette packages, and at the same time improve the loading and delivery efficiency.

[0020] When the order number information of customer B is stored in the stack (the order numbers are 004, 005 and 006), the order number information 004 is stored in stack I, and the order number information 005 and 006 are stored in stack II. Since packaging machine I has previously sent a cigarette pushing request with order number 004 to the sorting line, when customer B's order number information 004 is stored in stack I, the previously sent cigarette pushing request order number 004 will be compared with the current customer B's order number 004 stored in stack I at this time. The order numbers 004 are equal. At this time, the sorting line sends a cigarette pushing permission signal to packaging machine I. After receiving the cigarette pushing permission signal, packaging machine I completes the cigarette pushing action and returns to inform the sorting line that it has received the cigarette pushing signal. Packaging machine I also clears the cigarette pushing request order number information related to order number 004, and the sorting line clears the cigarette pushing permission signal information related to order number 004.

[0021] When the packaging machine is a full-size packaging machine and has unpacking and closing modes, taking packaging machine II as an example, when packaging customer A's order numbers 002 and 003, packaging machine II can split order number 002 into multiple packages (taking 3 packages as an example), and the order numbers of the 3 packages are all 002. At this time, the order number of the cigarette pushing request sent by packaging machine II to the sorting line for the 3 packages is all 002. When the order number 002 is any one of the several order numbers (001, 002 and 003) corresponding to customer A, after the sorting line receives this order number 002, it compares it with the current customer's order number (002 and 003) stored in stack II. After the sorting line determines that the sent order number is the order number of customer A, it sends a signal to packaging machine II to allow cigarette pushing.

[0022] In the combined packing mode, the packing machine II can combine order numbers 002 and 003 into one pack, and the order number of the pack can be 002 or 003. After the sorting line determines that the sent order number 002 or 003 is the order number of customer A, it sends a signal to the packing machine II to allow cigarette pushing.

[0023] The method of the present invention can be applied to the packaging equipment of multiple packaging machines for sorting full-size cigarettes in the tobacco industry. By controlling multiple packaging machines to push the film at the same time, the cigarettes are discharged in an orderly manner. The cigarette packs are then transported to the confluence port by a conveyor belt conveyor, and then transported to the code plate port and the loading port.

[0024] The method of the present invention controls the cigarette pushing process of the packaging machine by adding a two-way protocol with the packaging machine, so that the cigarette cartons of the same customer enter the thermoplastic port at the cigarette pushing port at the same time, thereby achieving the same cigarette output effect. This breaks through the problem that when two traditional packaging machines are running, it is impossible to simultaneously consider whether the cigarette cartons of the same customer are packaged before continuing to work. This reduces the labor intensity of the delivery personnel of the tobacco delivery system and improves the delivery efficiency.

Claims

1. A method for accurately controlling the order and delivery of smoke from multiple packaging machine outlets, characterized in that: According to the sales tasks of customers of the tobacco system on that day, the information system optimizes and issues the sorting data of that day. If the number of cigarette cartons ordered by the same customer is different, it will be split into multiple different order numbers and sent to each packaging machine port. When the first order number of customer A passes the inkjet coding and merges, a request for permission to issue customer A's order number is sent to the information system. After receiving the request, the information system simultaneously issues customer A's order numbers to multiple packaging machines and stores them in the corresponding stack. Multiple packaging machines run and package normally. After any packaging machine at the cigarette pushing port completes the packaging of the corresponding customer A's order number, it sends a request to push cigarettes signal to the sorting line. The push cigarette signal is the order number of customer A assigned to the packaging machine. After the sorting line receives this order number, it compares it with the order number of customer A stored in the stack. If they are equal, a push cigarette permission signal is sent to the packaging machine. After receiving the push cigarette permission signal, the packaging machine completes the push cigarette action and returns to inform the sorting line that the push cigarette signal has been received. The packaging machine also clears the push cigarette request order number, and the sorting line clears the push cigarette permission signal. When the cigarette order number issued by the packaging machine is greater than the order number of customer A stored in the stack, the order number information about customer A in the corresponding stack of the packaging machine is cleared. When the order number information about customer A in all stacks is 0, the sorting line sends a message to the information system allowing the next customer order number to be issued.

2. A method for accurately controlling the order and delivery of smoke from outlets of multiple packaging machines according to claim 1, characterized in that: When the packaging machine is a full-size packaging machine and has unpacking and closing modes, when the cigarette pushing order number sent by the packaging machine to the sorting line is any one of the several order numbers corresponding to customer A, the sorting line determines that the sent order number is the order number of customer A, and then sends a signal to the packaging machine to allow cigarette pushing.

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