In early 2025, Shunhong Company made a major announcement that its intelligent transformation project for the printing production system has officially taken effect, with a batch of new technological equipment including AI robotic arms and intelligent inspection systems fully integrated into the production process. This transformation has achieved the automation and precision upgrading of the entire printing workflow, not only injecting strong momentum into the company's own development but also exploring a new path for the high-quality development of the printing industry led by technological innovation.
According to the person in charge of Shunhong's Production Department, this intelligent transformation is not a blind follow-up to trends but a targeted breakthrough focusing on the pain points and difficulties in the core links of printing production. In the production workshop, multiple AI robotic arms are operating in an orderly manner. Repetitive processes that previously required the collaboration of multiple workers, such as raw material feeding, finished product sorting, and precise palletizing, are now fully replaced by robotic arms. Equipped with advanced AI visual recognition and precise positioning technology, these AI robotic arms can quickly identify and accurately grasp materials of different specifications, with operational errors strictly controlled within the millimeter level.
"Taking the finished product palletizing process as an example, the workload that used to require 6 workers to work continuously for 8 hours can now be completed with high quality by 1 AI robotic arm in 4 hours," the person in charge said. A set of data intuitively shows the transformation results: the application of AI robotic arms has not only reduced the labor intensity of front-line workers by more than 60% but also increased the material flow efficiency by over 30%, effectively solving the prominent problems of "difficulty in recruiting workers and low efficiency" in the traditional printing industry.
In addition to the automation upgrading of production links, the supporting intelligent production management system has also become a highlight of the transformation. By installing intelligent sensors on key equipment such as printing machines and die-cutting machines, the system realizes real-time monitoring of equipment operating status. Various data including equipment temperature, operating speed, and energy consumption are transmitted to the central control platform in real time. The built-in intelligent algorithms of the system can conduct real-time analysis of these data and automatically optimize process settings according to parameters such as raw material characteristics and printing requirements, fundamentally solving long-standing quality pain points in the industry such as color deviation and inaccurate overprinting. Statistics show that after the transformation, the equipment failure downtime has been reduced by 40%, the process adjustment efficiency has increased by 50%, and the production stability has been significantly enhanced.
Quality is the lifeline of an enterprise. In the quality inspection link, Shunhong has innovatively built a dual quality inspection model of "AI inspection + manual review". Traditional manual quality inspection relies on inspectors' visual observation and experience judgment, which is not only inefficient but also prone to missed inspections due to fatigue. The newly invested intelligent inspection equipment can quickly capture images of printed products through high-definition cameras and accurately identify more than 20 common problems such as blurred text, film coating defects, color deviation, and overprinting errors with AI algorithms. The inspection speed reaches 30 sheets per second, which is 50% more efficient than traditional manual quality inspection. For suspicious products marked by AI inspection, professional quality inspectors conduct rechecks and confirmations, ensuring both inspection efficiency and accuracy. Data shows that after the transformation, the product qualification rate has increased from 97.2% to 99.5%, and customer complaints have decreased by 70% year-on-year.
Shunhong Company stated that this intelligent upgrading is an important practice of the enterprise's development concept of "empowering production with technology" and a key step in the company's transformation into an "intelligent printing service provider". It is understood that to promote this transformation, Shunhong has invested tens of millions of yuan in advance in technological research and development and equipment procurement, and established a special team composed of experts in multiple fields such as mechanical engineering, artificial intelligence, and printing technology. The project research, scheme design, and implementation were completed in one and a half years.
Looking forward to the future, Shunhong Company said it will continue to deepen the research and application of intelligent printing technology. It plans to further increase R&D investment within the next two years, focusing on tackling key technologies such as the in-depth integration of printing processes and AI algorithms, and the research and development of green and intelligent printing materials, to continuously optimize production processes and enhance core competitiveness. At the same time, the company will actively share transformation experience, promote technical exchanges and cooperation within the industry, help more peers achieve intelligent transformation, jointly provide customers with more efficient and high-quality printing solutions, and work together to promote the printing industry to a new stage of high-quality development.
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