What Information Is Required to Customize a Food Packaging Machine?

To design a food packaging machine that matches a specific product, manufacturers need more than basic product dimensions. A complete customization brief should include product drawings or samples, package size, product orientation, stacking method, film specifications, target output, sealing style, coding needs, factory utilities, and downstream equipment details. For an automatic wafer packaging line, these inputs determine the feeding system, stacking unit, horizontal flow wrapper, sealing configuration, controls, and line integration.

Customization Requirements at a Glance

• Provide product drawings or physical samples showing length, width, height, shape, coating, and permitted travel direction.
• Define the finished package, including pillow-pack dimensions, film type and width, bag length, fin-seal style, and end-seal requirements.
• Confirm the required speed, number of products per pack, lane configuration, feeding arrangement, and product spacing.
• Submit site and integration information covering power, compressed air, conveyors, coding, inspection, cartoning, case packing, and palletizing.

How the Product Information Determines the Machine Design

A wafer packaging line normally moves through several stages: product infeed, alignment, accumulation or stacking, film forming, longitudinal sealing, transverse sealing, cutting, and finished-pack discharge. Product drawings establish the working envelope for the guides, collating mechanism, film path, sealing jaws, and discharge conveyor.

The product description should identify whether the machine will handle wafer biscuits, wafer bars, cream-filled wafers, sandwich wafers, or chocolate-coated products. Orientation is also important because the equipment is configured for horizontal product movement. When several wafers go into one bag, the brief should state the required count and stacking pattern. The available configuration can support automatic stacking of 2 to 6 wafers per pack, with single-lane, 2-lane, or 4-lane feeding options.

Package and Film Specifications

The package drawing should include the finished bag length, width, and height, together with the selected film width and bag-making length. The documented equipment range covers film widths from 90 to 900 mm, adjustable bag lengths from 60 to 400 mm, product widths up to 350 mm, and product heights up to 120 mm. The final specification depends on the product profile, film construction, and desired package style.

Film data should identify the heat-sealable laminate, such as OPP, CPP, PET/Alu/PE, or metallized film. For printed film, provide the eye-mark and registration requirements. Photoelectric tracking is available, with a stated registration accuracy of plus or minus 1 mm. The customization request should also indicate whether the line needs film preheating, a hot-wheel longitudinal seal, serrated or straight cutting, automatic film splicing, or closed-loop tension control.

Speed, Feeding, and Control Data

Production planning must state the desired packs per minute and expected operating schedule. Depending on the model and product size, the complete system is listed at approximately 100 to 1,000 packs per minute. The horizontal flow-wrapper section is listed at 30 to 250 packs per minute, while high-speed servo models can provide greater output. The practical target must be checked against product dimensions, bag length, sealing-jaw design, and lane quantity.

Control preferences should cover the servo layout, number of stored recipes, operator interface, and communication protocol. The control architecture may include a PLC master controller, distributed servo drives, 3-servo, 4-servo, or full-servo configurations, a 7 to 15.6 inch color touchscreen, multilingual operation, recipe management, EtherCAT or CANopen communication, alarm history, and remote diagnostic support.

Factory Integration and Installation Information

Downstream layout drawings should show the location, height, and connection points for checkweighers, metal detectors, labelers, cartoners, case packers, conveyors, and palletizing equipment. The wafer system can include automatic rejection for missing products, sealing defects, and weight deviations. It can also be linked with checkweighing, metal detection, labeling, cartoning, and robotic palletizing systems.

Site information should include the available voltage, phase, frequency, compressed-air pressure and flow, floor area, access route, and allowable equipment height. Supported electrical options include 220V, 380V, or 400V three-phase power at 50 or 60 Hz. Installed power is generally 3 to 12 kW, depending on the selected model. Compressed air is typically supplied at 5 to 6 bar with consumption of approximately 20 to 50 L/min. Documented line dimensions range from 3,000 to 5,000 mm in length, 800 to 1,500 mm in width, and 1,400 to 1,800 mm in height.

Testing with actual product and film samples is recommended before final approval. Sample trials can confirm product feeding, alignment, stacking, sealing performance, rejection accuracy, and finished-pack appearance. Foshan Ruipuhua Machinery Equipment Co. Ltd holds CE certification applicable to flow packaging machines, automatic packaging systems, cartoning machines, and palletizing robots. A bakery project involving cake-pie wrapping and robotic palletizing also demonstrates experience with coordinated packaging lines.

Customization Data and Corresponding Machine Decisions

Frequently Asked Questions

Which product drawings are needed for a wafer packaging machine?

Send drawings or samples that show wafer or wafer-bar length, width, height, shape, coating, orientation, and the required stacking arrangement. These details allow the manufacturer to select the feeding, alignment, collating, film-forming, and sealing components.

What film details must be confirmed?

Provide the film material, width, reel diameter, bag length, printed-film registration information, and preferred sealing method. Heat-sealable options listed for the system include OPP, CPP, PET/Alu/PE, and metallized films.

What site information is needed before installation?

Provide the power voltage, phase, frequency, compressed-air pressure and flow, available floor space, access route, line height, and connection details for inspection or secondary packaging. The stated compressed-air requirement is 5 to 6 bar.

Conclusion

A reliable customization proposal should combine product drawings or samples with package dimensions, film data, output targets, feeding and stacking requirements, control preferences, downstream equipment layouts, and factory utility information. The system supports OEM and custom manufacturing projects, with a stated minimum order quantity of 1 and sample testing available. For technical consultation, contact lotuspack@ruipuhua.com.

About Us

Foshan Ruipuhua Machinery Equipment Co. Ltd, also known as RPH or RAPIDPACK, was founded in 2005. The company combines packaging-machine research and development, manufacturing, installation, and after-sales technical service. Its equipment is used for food, bakery, biscuit, snack, noodle, chocolate, soap, hardware, pharmaceutical, and daily chemical products, with exports to more than 100 countries. The company reports annual production exceeding 500 automatic packaging machines and complete packaging lines. Its CE certification covers flow packaging machines, automatic packaging systems, cartoning machines, and palletizing robots.