With the Internet, new technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data are becoming more and more closely related to human life and work. How to integrate traditional industrial applications with artificial intelligence technologies to connect with Internet thinking has become a breakthrough business model for enterprises to achieve rapid development. The idea is driven. Taking the traditional plastic film industry as an example, how to combine this traditional plastic chemical field with the Internet and artificial intelligence has become a hot topic in the industry, and the film has developed rapidly in the past two years. Quantifying the film formulation as a technology-based thin film communication platform is gradually integrating the Internet and AI technology with the traditional plastic film industry. This time we interviewed Mr. Peng Jiangbo, director of information technology for thin film communication platform, to talk about the technology of plastic film technology. Artificial intelligence technology.
Why did you want to develop a thin film smart formula system?
Types of plastic film forming, including blow molding, casting, calendaring, drawing, etc. Four molding processes, and the largest biaxial stretching process is a combination of casting and stretching methods, plastic film forming and others. In the plastic processing field, besides being closely related to the performance of the processing equipment itself (such as mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, etc.), the performance of the plastic resin itself also has an important impact on the performance and quality of the plastic products, especially since the plastic film involves many Plastic resin mixing and co-extrusion processing, so the impact of resin performance on the performance of plastic film will be very critical. Therefore, the film through the platform has organized more than 10 experienced technical experts such as resin experts, process experts, and information system construction experts. After feasibility verification, after more than 2 years of development and research, the basic algorithm of intelligent formula system and the preliminary application model have been completed.
Smart formula application principle?
Simply speaking, any kind of resin will have a favorable performance for film products, and it will also have harmful properties. How to make a variety of resins after blending or co-extruding to achieve a comprehensive balance of film properties requires technical personnel to adjust The content of various resins forms a very important process technology in the film—the design of the film formulation. Taking polyethylene film as an example, LDPE has better transparency and processing type of film, but it will Resilience has a negative impact. Similarly, metallocene or HAO polyethylene resins can greatly improve the physical and mechanical properties of thin films, but their ease of processing has a negative impact, and their procurement costs are relatively high. These comprehensive factors are It will affect the overall cost of the film, physical and mechanical properties, etc. The thin-film smart formulation system of the thin-film pass-through platform can effectively quantify the data analysis of the effect of each resin's specific gravity on the various performance factors of the film, facilitating the enterprises to adjust and optimize the film formulation.
What is the significance of smart formulations for realistic film production operations?
In general, many large-scale thin film production and application companies at home and abroad will set up process engineers or process directors. Process technicians mainly rely on experience and technology to carry out thin film production and applications, so they often appear on the same equipment. In the absence of communication, the recipes set by different process technicians vary widely. Without uniform standards and reference indicators, only the production of films can be used to monitor the quality of the formulations. This greatly increases the company's formula testing costs. , Thin-film smart film formulation system can allow companies and technical staff to take a lot of detours. In addition, for SMEs, there is no more money and manpower recruitment process technicians, can only buy film formulations at high prices, and future upgrade film Performance will be difficult. And our system can solve the above major problems for small business owners.
What is the current status of this system?
At present, this system has initially developed an application model. As an information technology participant, I am conducting an internal test of the system. The overall test effect is very good. It is expected to be market-oriented in a relatively short period of time. In addition, this system will also be a The dynamic intelligent recipe system, which will continuously integrate the test data of the actual film products, for system re-learning, and improve the basic algorithm to improve the accuracy of the thin film intelligent formulation system.
How will the Thin-film Smart Formulation System achieve deep cooperation with the industry chain?
The film development system not only enables in-depth cooperation with film production companies, but also can carry out technical exchanges with resin particle companies at home and abroad, such as research on the balance of various resin mixing properties, feasibility studies of multi-brand resins, etc. Especially for Sinopec Corp. There is a good reference for improving the performance of the resin. In addition, the system can be installed as an embedded software in various thin-film processing equipment in the future, helping customers to retrieve and adjust formulas in real-time.
About the film
Membrane Pass is a service platform centered on the film industry chain technology. The platform is based on plastic film forming formula technology. Through built-in algorithms, it provides professional automatic on-line formulating guidance to upstream and downstream industry chain companies and users, and estimates cost. Performance comparison, resin inquiry, market information, film supply, human resources, thin film testing and other services.