What Information Is Required to Customize Food Packaging Machinery?

To develop a suitable food packaging machine, manufacturers need accurate information about the product, package, film, production capacity, factory utilities, and connected equipment. For a wafer automatic packaging line, the customization brief should include wafer or wafer-bar dimensions, product orientation, stacking quantity, desired packs per minute, film type and width, bag length, feeding method, control preferences, and installation conditions.

Essential Information for a Custom Packaging Solution

A complete technical request normally includes the following details:

• Product drawings or physical samples showing length, width, height, shape, coating, orientation, and dimensional tolerances.
• Finished-pack requirements, including pillow-pack size, fin-seal and end-seal style, film material, film width, bag length, and printing or coding needs.
• Production targets such as packs per minute, pieces per pack, stacking pattern, lane quantity, feeding arrangement, and product spacing.
• Site and integration data covering electrical supply, compressed air, available floor space, conveyors, inspection systems, coding devices, cartoning, case packing, and palletizing.

How Product Data Determines Machine Design

A wafer packaging system generally follows a continuous process: product infeed, alignment or collation, stacking, film forming, longitudinal sealing, cross sealing, cutting, and finished-pack discharge. Product drawings are therefore important because they define the working envelope for the infeed guides, stacking mechanism, film former, sealing unit, and discharge conveyor.

The product description should state whether the machine will handle wafer biscuits, wafer bars, cream-filled wafers, sandwich wafers, or chocolate-coated products. The required travel direction must also be identified, since the system is designed for horizontal product movement. When several wafers are packed together, the number of pieces per bag and the required collating method should be specified. The available arrangement can automatically stack 2 to 6 wafers per package and may use a single lane, two lanes, or four lanes depending on the required output.

Finished-pack drawings should identify the expected pack length, width, and height. They should be provided together with the film width and the required 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 correct configuration depends on the product envelope, film behavior, and selected packaging format.

Film, Sealing, and Coding Specifications

Film information should cover the heat-sealable laminate structure, such as OPP, CPP, PET/Alu/PE, or metallized film. For printed film, the machine supplier also needs the registration-mark position and related artwork data. A photoelectric tracking system is typically used for registration, with a stated accuracy of plus or minus 1 mm.

The customization request should also indicate whether the line needs a film preheating unit, hot-wheel longitudinal sealing, straight or serrated cutting, automatic film splicing, or closed-loop film-tension control. Coding requirements should include the coding technology, print position, character area, and connection with the packaging machine control system.

Capacity and Automation Requirements

Production planning should state the required packs per minute, daily operating hours, shift pattern, and expected future capacity. The complete system is documented with a typical output range of 100 to 1,000 packs per minute depending on the model and product. The horizontal flow-wrapper section is listed at approximately 30 to 250 packs per minute, while high-speed servo configurations can provide greater output. The final speed must be checked against product size, package length, lane count, and sealing-jaw design.

Control specifications should define the desired servo architecture, recipe quantity, operator interface, and communication protocol. The available control platform may include PLC master control, distributed servo drives, 3-servo, 4-servo, or full-servo configurations, a 7 to 15.6 inch color touchscreen, multilingual menus, recipe storage, EtherCAT or CANopen communication, alarm history, and remote diagnostic functions.

Integration, Utilities, and Factory Layout

Downstream equipment drawings should show the location, conveyor height, speed, and interface points for checkweighers, metal detectors, labelers, cartoners, case packers, and palletizing systems. The wafer line can be equipped with automatic rejection for missing products, sealing defects, and weight deviations. It can also be connected to checkweighing, metal detection, labeling, cartoning, and robotic palletizing equipment.

Factory information should include the available voltage, phase, frequency, compressed-air pressure and consumption, floor area, access route, ceiling clearance, and line height. Supported electrical options include 220V, 380V, or 400V three-phase power at 50 or 60 Hz. Depending on the model, installed power is approximately 3 to 12 kW, while compressed air is generally supplied at 5 to 6 bar with consumption of about 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 wafer samples is recommended before final approval. Product trials can confirm feeding stability, alignment, stacking accuracy, sealing performance, rejection logic, 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 documented cake and pie packaging project for a bakery producer combined wrapping equipment with robotic palletizing, demonstrating experience with coordinated packaging lines.

Customization Data and Corresponding Machine Decisions

Frequently Asked Questions

What drawings or samples are needed for a wafer packaging machine?

Provide product drawings or representative samples showing wafer or wafer-bar length, width, height, shape, coating, travel orientation, dimensional tolerance, and stacking arrangement. These inputs determine the feeding, alignment, film-forming, and sealing configuration.

Which film details must be confirmed before customization?

Share the film structure, width, roll diameter, bag length, printed-film registration requirements, and preferred sealing method. Suitable heat-sealable materials listed for the system include OPP, CPP, PET/Alu/PE, and metallized films.

What factory information is required for installation?

The supplier needs the available voltage, phase, frequency, compressed-air pressure and flow, floor space, access route, conveyor height, machine clearance, and connections to inspection or secondary-packaging equipment. The documented compressed-air requirement is 5 to 6 bar.

Why should actual product samples be tested?

Product testing confirms whether the wafers feed consistently, maintain the correct orientation, stack accurately, seal without damage, and meet the required finished-pack appearance and output rate.

Conclusion and Recommendations

A strong customization request combines product drawings or samples with package dimensions, film specifications, output targets, feeding and stacking details, coding requirements, control preferences, downstream equipment layouts, and factory utility data. The system supports manufacturing and OEM cooperation, with a stated minimum order quantity of 1 and sample-based testing available. For a detailed technical proposal or engineering support, 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 research and development, manufacturing, installation, and technical after-sales service for automatic packaging machinery. Its solutions are used for food, bakery products, biscuits, snacks, noodles, chocolate, soap, hardware, pharmaceutical products, and daily chemical goods, with exports to more than 100 countries. The company reports an annual production capacity of over 500 automatic packaging machines and complete packaging lines. Its CE certification covers flow packaging machines, automatic packaging systems, cartoning machines, and palletizing robots.