Guangdong Jinming Machinery and Xi’an Jiaotong University have signed a contract of development for a blown film line control system based on specialised chips.
The partnership will see the two parties develop a highly intelligent domestic blown film equipment controller.
According to Guangdong Jinming Machinery, the project which is based on the SOC (system-on-a-chip) control system, is a core technology in the plastic machinery industry currently.
Aim of the project is to develop low cost blown film lines to increase the profit margins for domestic equipment.
The company further said that this is the second batch of strategic industrialisation projects for core technology in the emerging industry in Guangdong. It is expected to begin trial production and come into effect in 2016.
The project adopts intelligent algorithms like evolutionary computation and fuzzy control for gaining control over physical quantities including location, speed, temperature, pressure in the feedback control systems by integrating the characteristics of controlling blowing machines.
The company said in a statement: "Blow molding machines have the lowest average unit price of all exported plastic machines and are also the product with the highest average unit price gap between imports and exports. The number of exported blow molding machines in 2013 reached 65,175, a year-on-year growth of 236% with a sum of 180.97m yuan, 16% more over that of the previous year and the average unit price was only $3,000.
"Analysts note that this is mainly because exported plastic machines are generally OEM products or generic products and are still in the lower-end of the value chain in the international division of the industry without high added value. Domestic products have a large gap in precision, micromation, upsizing and automatic control compared to the advanced technology in foreign countries."
Image: Guangdong Jinming Machinery and Xi'an Jiaotong University will develop a blown film equipment controller. Photo: courtesy of Guangdong Jinming Machinery.
