Research on the Design of Automation System of Distribution and Packaging of Cigarettes

Abstract

The paper studies a set of fast automatic cigarette packaging plan based on plastic-envelope machine which is used to solve packaging problems in the last one kilometers' distribution to retailers. According to the packaging principle of and bag in cigarettes industry, design a packaging plan with as main packaging unit, recyclable plastic-envelope film as packaging medium and the order of one retailer as packing unit which finishes packaging plan through automatic packaging machine. Use plastic-envelope film and automatic packaging machine to finish packaging according to the order of one retailer, then the original bottleneck of selection line is solved. Cigarettes industry is badly in need of a set of environment-friendly and fast packaging plan to solve the packaging problem in the last one kilometers' distribution to retailers after the wide adoption of selection line and the construction of logistics center by it. The plan in the paper can solve the problem. The packaging units of cigarettes have four levels including box, group, bar and bag. Generally, one bag contains 20 cigarettes, one contains 10 bags, one group contains 50 bars and one box contains 5 groups. Cigarette factory generally sends cigarettes to cigarette company by box or then cigarette company takes box and group apart by selection line and distributes cigarettes to retailers by according to their orders and big orders are distributed by group. The packaging plan in the paper is designed for the link of cigarettes company to retailers which is an automatic packaging plan adopted by cigarettes company in second packaging with retailer as unit after passing selection line and doesn't include the packaging of whole group delivery (generally, the delivery of whole group doesn't need second packaging).