subject: Industry Watch: China Paper Box Company Set Foot On The Road Information [print this page] With the progress of the times in the past three decades, the world experienced a revolution in information technology, computer technology, control technology, making automatic control and information technology in every field, and continue to driving the development of various industries, in this process, and the carton business is no different.
Carton industry with other industries, like information technology, also experienced a run to the internal LAN from the stand-alone or in the course of development of the Internet running. Starting from 70 years of wages, accounts, computerized material requirements planning to 80 years of financial, human resources, production planning and scheduling, computerized, to 90 years of computer-aided design, prepress digital revolution, digital printing, quality control testing , enterprise resource management, supply chain management and e-commerce information, as well as full Internet in recent years, the emergence of business operation, are to continue to improve enterprise management. These improvements are the enterprise's production management, production efficiency, product quality greatly improved, continue to reduce product loss, production cycles are shorter.
Present, foreign majority carton packaging manufacturers have entered the age of electronic commerce, most packaging companies are using e-commerce technology, Southeast Asia, about 90% of enterprises have their own local area network system, 20% started Internet action. Information relative to foreign trends, China's carton business still is in its infancy.
Information production process Carton production of digital, computerized, with the constant development of computer technology development, the progress of the first performance of products in carton design, prepress plate-making system development. 90 20th century, computer-aided design continues to mature and progress, making the design of cartons can be done on the computer has greatly enhanced the efficiency and accuracy. The use of desktop publishing system, making graphic layout, color separation film output, plate-making process out of the heavy labor, such progress also for the corrugated box printing from a single line text printing to high-end graphics foundation for the transformation. As technology advances, until today, carton company has achieved the production of digital workflow, their strengths and challenges as described below.
Saving time: use of digital workflow and greatly speed up the production speed, such as carton design plate making, printing and finishing of automatic detection and shorten the preparation time jobs, increase production efficiency.
Save material: carton printing processes such as using computer to plate technology, which makes the printed version of the production process no longer need film and chemical cleaning solution can be significant material savings, and simplified the preparation process, reducing printing and finishing waste. And in digital file, usually can easily handle changes in customer orders, these products will make the change, and there is no material loss.
Improve quality: the digital quality at all stages of the improvement can be seen, mainly because of data accuracy and precision of the improved tone reproduction. Digitization and automation simplifies the entire production process standards. Production process of fully digitized, you can also color management to achieve continuous, so that high-end color carton print production as possible, between the user and the corporate real WYSIWYG, reducing print quality problems arise because of disputes.
Quality management: the process of the plate such as printing problems, computer to plate the problem is that the data file when an error occurs, will result in loss of plate material. Exposure in the film, a file error will lead to the exposure of a film error; in plate exposure, this error will result in a printed version of the exposure error. Therefore, the implementation stage of digitization and automation of the more higher quality control standards. Input and output data of the digital process control is an important step, through special software to run.
Digital proofing: a new product, the need for sampling to confirm product eligibility. Carton printing process, a simulated or part of the digital system, the sampling is to simulate as much as possible print results, so make-up is necessary before sampling. Traditional analog proofing need color separations, but in the digital workflow is no longer used in film-to-plate technology to convert this process into the digital proofing (such as inkjet printing, thermal transfer printing). So far, most of the digital proofing system was not as accurate as the traditional analog film proofing printing results. Most customers of these systems can not be accepted, especially in the majority of digital proofing systems can not deliver the same effect with the screen proofs, but the adoption of color management has greatly enhanced this effect, and new digital devices directly in the corrugated board for digital inkjet proofing or printing.
Data re-use / management: the preservation of digital files to save space more than storage of film. The data generated can be used to change or not to make any changes, at any time for other work. This advantage in the preparation phase, control of the printing and finishing more apparent. File system must be well designed to meet the needs of a variety of operations, to ensure quick to find the required documents.
Backup: In the digital workflow, if there is no backup, data loss will cause a significant loss of time and cost. Installation of backup system, over-voltage protection device, the server backup device, and the right to control, log on to prevent any loss of data is very important.
Staff skills: Digital Workflow enterprises to save on labor, reduce the costs of human resources, on the other hand, which employees have more stringent requirements, need some new skills, such as familiarity with the network and use, production and use of management software. At the same time it also increased the demands on system administrators to ensure that the increasingly complex network security operations.
Application of Automatic Control Equipment At present, domestic carton business, computer and automatic control technology has been applied to every corner of the production, which is the standardization of products and production efficiency to provide a guarantee. Information technology application in equipment for example:
Color system: the original manual with Mexico has many shortcomings, so that the stability of ink quality, consistency little worse. Artificial color labor intensive, repetitive and more, are prone to error, resulting in waste. This is the consistency of cardboard products creates a potential hidden danger, the reliability of the unstable quality of products, these factors
Industry Watch: China Paper Box Company Set Foot On The Road Information
