Potato chips multihead weighers are specialized machines designed specifically for weighing and packaging potato chips or other similar snack products. These machines are commonly used in food processing and packaging industries to automate the weighing packing machine process, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and consistent product quality

Here are some key features and benefits of potato chips multihead weighers:

1.Multihead Weighing Technology: Potato chips multihead weighers utilize advanced multihead weighing technology. They consist of multiple weighing heads that work simultaneously to weigh the product quickly and accurately. This technology ensures precise portion control and reduces giveaway       

2.High Speed and Efficiency: These machines are designed to handle high-speed weighing and packing operations, allowing for increased productivity and throughput. The multihead weighers can weigh and dispense the product into bags or containers at a rapid pace.

3.Gentle Product Handling: Potato chips multihead weighers are equipped with gentle handling mechanisms to minimize product damage and maintain the product's integrity. The machines use vibration and controlled feeding systems to reduce product breakage and ensure the chips' quality.

4.Versatility and Flexibility: These machines offer flexibility in terms of pack sizes and weights. They can handle a wide range of bag sizes and weights, accommodating various packaging requirements. The weighers can be programmed to set different portions and target weights based on production needs.

5.User-Friendly Interface: Potato chips multihead weighers feature user-friendly interfaces, typically with touchscreens, making it easy for operators to set and adjust parameters, monitor the weighing process, and control the machine's functions.

6.Integration with Packaging Equipment: These weighers are designed to seamlessly integrate with other packaging equipment such as vertical form-fill-seal machines, bagging machines, or conveyor systems. This enables a fully automated production line for efficient packaging operations.

7.Quality Control and Data Management: Potato chips multihead weighers often come with built-in quality control features like automatic reject systems that identify and remove improper or overweight packages. They also provide data management capabilities, allowing for production monitoring, statistical analysis, and traceability.

8.It's important to mention that specific features, capabilities, and brands of potato chips multihead weighers may vary. Companies specializing in food packaging machinery can provide detailed information and solutions tailored to specific production requirements.

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This automatic weighing and packaging system of pet food is designed for the integration of multiple equipment systems, which can realize the mixing of ten different feeds according to different proportions of formula and packaging according to different quantitative values, which can meet the quantitative feeding of pets of all ages in the market.

Multiple varieties, small batch has become normal market demand, traditional factories have been unable to meet. UUPAC intelligent can realize industry 4.0 intelligent packaging automatically, intelligently and efficiently.

Customers place orders through the mobile app → disassemble and arrange production in the control system → execute production in the factory line. Professional solution from order to delivery progress tracking. Customers can easily control the whole process of order (production) (and product data) without frequent worry about delivery time.

01 →According to the formula can choose 10 independent automatic feeding weighing system.

02 →Two independent bag-making systems can be selected according to the bag type, including real-time printing of product information.

03 →Self-adjusting weight inspection system according to product weight.

04 →Metal detection and elimination system.

05 →After receiving the order, the system automatically arranges the order production, real-time monitoring in the LAN, digital production and digital management, to make all production steps clear and smart.

The equipment is tailored for the weighing and packaging of pet food, and can be proportioned according to the nutritional needs of pets and automatically produce. It has a very humanized design, saving labor costs and improving production efficiency.

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A multihead weigher is a high-speed, automated weighing system used primarily in the food, pharmaceutical,

and packaging industries to accurately measure and portion products into predefined weights.

It consists of multiple independent weighing units (heads) that work together to achieve precise and efficient filling of packages or containers.  

Key Features of Multihead Weighers

1. High Speed & Accuracy

   - Capable of weighing up to 250–325 packs per minute (depending on model and product type) .  

   - Uses load cells for precise weight measurement, reducing product giveaway .  

2. Versatile Applications

   - Suitable for granular, powdery, sticky, or irregularly shaped products(e.g., snacks, meat, cheese, seafood, fruits, vegetables) .  

   - Used in industries like food processing, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and recycling.  

3. Flexible Configurations

   - Available in 10, 13, or more weighing heads for different production needs .  

   - Can be combined with vibratory feeders, screw fillers, or linear weighers for optimal product handling .  

4. Smart Control & Automation

   - PLC or MCU-based control for stability and easy maintenance .  

   - IoT-enabled models allow real-time monitoring and data logging .  

5. Hygienic & Easy to Clean

   - Made with stainless steel  for food safety compliance .  

   - Wireless operator panels reduce contamination risks .  

Why Is The Multi-head Combination Weighing Scale So Accurate?

With the rapid development of modern industry, packaging industry in packaging accuracy, packaging speed, packaging range and other aspects also have higher requirements, traditional quantitative automatic packaging scale has been difficult to meet these requirements, and the multihead combination weigher is developed under this requirement, it and the traditional quantitative automatic packaging scale there are the following differences:

 1. The difference in weighing accuracy caused by different weighing principles

(1) The weighing principle is different

Quantitative automatic packaging scale is one side of the feeding side weighing, in the arrival of the target weight data before continuous feeding, when and the target weight difference a little must be added to the object, that is, after the coarse measurement and then fine measurement, such as the object is larger or heavier when there is a larger error, which affects the accuracy of the scale. The computer combined balance is composed of a number of weighing units with independent feed and discharge structure, the general computer combined balance is composed of 8 ~ 32 weighing units. The computer uses the principle of permutation and combination to automatically optimize the load of each weighing unit, and obtains the best and most close to the quantitative value of the combination for packaging. For example, a computer combination scale with ten weighing units will weigh each weighing unit and read the weight data of each weighing bucket into the computer. The computer will choose the optimal combination. According to combinatorial mathematics, ten weighing units can realize a total of 1023 combinations, and the computer will select the combination closest to the target weight value from the 1023 combinations. In this way, the above fine weighing is said to be large, and it is difficult to achieve quantitative value of the work. The computer combination scale takes the combination closest to the target weight as the final result.

(2) The reliability of test data varies

Because the traditional quantitative automatic packaging scale is feeding side weighing, so for the Wieser sensor is in the dynamic situation of weighing, if the object is affected or beat, will make the sensor induction of unstable weight data caused by error, and the vibration feed of the computer combination scale is carried out on the buffer hopper, weighing hopper is carried out in a stable situation, Therefore, the weight data obtained is of high accuracy.

(3) Drop error

This error for quantitative automatic packaging scale is a very significant error, weighing bucket weight value reached the set value, although the electromagnetic vibration feeder has stopped, but stop the moment, weighing bucket to vibrator a section of the existence of the called thing will eventually fall into the bucket produced the so-called drop error, although some quantitative automatic packaging scale use to shorten the feeding time to reduce the drop error, However, due to the flow rate, feed uniformity and other uncertain factors, there are still different degrees of error. The computer combined scale is fed from the buffer hopper to the weighing hopper, the weighing hopper is completely stable after issuing instructions for weighing, so there is no drop error.

2. The difference in weighing speed

The traditional quantitative automatic packaging scale generally needs to go through the weighing process of coarse measurement and fine measurement, especially the fine measuring process needs to be added bit by bit, which takes a long time and affects the weighing speed. For example, the weighing speed of the quantitative automatic packaging scale below 1 kg is generally in 20 ~ 30 packs/minute, and the high speed multihead weigher in the rapid optimization of the combined calculation of the computer generally 14 weighing units of the scale can reach 100 ~ 120 packs/minute, 4 ~ 6 times faster than the weighing speed of the quantitative automatic packaging scale, and easy to cooperate with a variety of packaging machines. Greatly improve the efficiency of packaging, more suitable for modern production management needs.

3. The difference in weighing range

Under the same accuracy, the weighing range of the computer combination scale is larger than that of the quantitative automatic packaging scale. In general, the weighing range of the quantitative automatic packaging scale is controlled within 4 times under the same accuracy, and the weighing range of the computer combination scale in the small weighing section can reach more than 10 times. It can also be seen from a large number of test results that there is a difference in weighing range between the two. For example, in the weighing range of ten grams to 1 kg, the computer combined scale can reach the accuracy level of X (1), especially in the small scale is rare. If you want to keep the accuracy level unchanged, quantitative automatic packaging scale only reduce the scale range, the formation of multi-stage scale, can only rely on the production of multiple series of products, in order to achieve a certain requirement of the manufacturer. The average manufacturer will hardly accept this phenomenon. This brings limitations to its practical application, which cannot meet the requirements of different packaging specifications (10-1000g) but similar precision in some production fields.

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Customers' requirements for packaging of fruits and vegetables are getting higher and higher. Their requirements are more inclined to multi-batch, small batch, short cycle, less contact, etc. Work efficiency and safety factor are highlighted. Major fresh fruit and vegetable manufacturers, retail supermarkets, and vegetable market distribution factories have made efforts to build their own fresh processing and distribution centers. Realizing Intelligent upgrade in product packaging, weighing and sorting.

Fruits and vegetables are of different sizes, heavy and light in weight, and also contain water. In the process of weighing and packaging, how to achieve accurate measurement while ensuring food quality.

Multihead Weigher Functions and Features

1. Adopt high-precision digital sensor, fast sampling speed and high precision;

2. Can be reset manually or automatically and dynamic zero tracking;

3. The latest optimized sampling algorithm to improve weighing accuracy;

4. Multiple feeding hopper discharges can effectively solve blockage;

5. Intelligent fault detection and error reporting; Accurate positioning to solve problems;

6. The combination of weighing and counting functions to improve counting accuracy;

Mechanical properties

1. Standard universal parts design and strong interchangeability;

2. It is used for 5-liter volume hopper, suitable for weighing conventional large-weight materials and has a wide range of applications;

3. The upper feed hopper and lower discharge hopper are easy to disassemble for easy cleaning;

4. The chassis "return" type structure design; The whole machine structure is stable and the appearance is harmonious and beautiful;

In addition to various intelligent weighing and packaging equipment, our company has more intelligent equipment in development and testing.

It is also the unshirkable responsibility of UUPAC to continue to empower traditional agricultural automation and facilitate the rapid development of agriculture!

  On October 12, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Notice of the National Development and Reform Commission on Further Deepening the Market-oriented Reform of Coal-fired Power Generation On-grid Tariffs" (Fagai Price [2021] No. 1439), proposing to adjust coal-fired power generation transaction prices up and down The scope is no more than 20% of the benchmark electricity price, and it is clear that the document will be implemented on October 15. The increase in electricity prices is not good news for industrial and commercial companies, but it is indeed good news for photovoltaic companies. PV installation has now become a rigid demand. Distributed photovoltaics have different application scenarios in many places. Specific examples illustrate:

1.  Hosptial

  As a public service organization with high energy consumption, hospitals face great pressure in the future energy saving, emission reduction and consumption reduction work. The installation of photovoltaic power stations on the roof of the hospital actively explores the construction and development of green hospitals, and promotes the concept of green buildings and energy saving. The scientific application of consumption reduction technology is particularly important.

2. School

The school has the advantages of installing photovoltaic power plants: ① The power station is built on the roof of the school, which is a large science popularization base; ② The school has a wider roof, good structure and stable power consumption; ③ The school has stable operation, clear property rights, and relatively financing easy.

3. Highway

  Photovoltaic + highway has been widely used, making full use of the space resources of the highway, realizing the organic integration of photovoltaic power generation, transportation, energy saving and emission reduction, and road maintenance. Using highways as a new carrier of photovoltaic power generation led the new trend of the photovoltaic industry, created a new image of green highways, and laid a good foundation for the later smart highways. Photovoltaic is generally installed in the service area of the expressway, in the middle or on both sides of the road, in the tunnel or directly paved on the highway.

4. Industrial plant/park

  Industrial plants are the most widely used and most industrial and commercial projects. The installation of photovoltaic power plants in industrial plants can use idle roofs to revitalize fixed assets, save peak electricity bills, and use surplus electricity to connect to the Internet to increase corporate income, and it can also promote energy conservation and emission reduction, and generate a good society. benefit.

  In order to improve the reliability of lightning protection of distributed photovoltaic power plants and the safety of the human body, protective measures must be taken against voltage transients and surges. Jinli Electric’s photovoltaic surge protection devices can be offered.

The intelligent lightning protection system introduces the concept of intelligence into the lightning protection system, integrating the three major modules of "intelligent SPD online monitoring" + "lightning warning online monitoring" + "ground resistance online monitoring". It uses modern microcomputers and communication technologies to collect monitoring and collected data, so that lightning protection can be predicted in advance, from the previous passive protection to active protection. At the same time, it is more convenient for lightning protection product maintenance and management to be more timely, more convenient and more effective. On the basis of the above functional modules, the intelligent lightning protection monitoring system also has a graphical operating system that integrates lightning protection, operation monitoring, equipment management, report analysis, historical records, warning and user management.

SPD online monitoring: real-time monitoring of the working status of theSPD (such as leakage current, residual voltage, aging degree) to ensure its effective operation.

Ground resistance online monitoring: Continuously measure the resistance value of the grounding system to detect poor grounding or corrosion problems in time.

Lightning warning online monitoring : Combines meteorological data with electric field sensors to predict lightning activity and issue warnings in advance.

Advantages analysis:

1. Real-time monitoring and active early warning

Limitations of traditional lightning protection: Relying on manual regular inspections (such as once a year), sudden problems may be missed (such as instantaneous failure of SPDs and damage to the grounding system after a lightning strike).

Advantages of intelligent systems

1）Real-time feedback of SPD status: Once the leakage current exceeds the standard or the residual voltage is abnormal, the system will automatically alarm and generate a maintenance work order.

2) Dynamic monitoring of ground resistance: When the ground resistance value exceeds the threshold, an alarm is triggered immediately to ensure safe discharge of current during lightning strike.

3) Lightning warning accuracy: predict lightning activities 30 minutes to 1 hour in advance togain protection time for key facilities (such as airports and data centers).

2. Data-driven preventive maintenance

Traditional method: Maintenance relies on experience and judgment, and it is difficult to predict the life of equipment.

Intelligent system: Through long-term data accumulation, analyze the aging rules of SPDs and the changing trends of grounding resistance, and formulate targeted maintenance plans.

Case: A chemical plant discovered the SPD leakage current in a certain area increased year by year through monitoring data,andavoided the paralysis of the production line caused by lightning strike after replacingthe spd in advance.

3. Improve safety and reduce losses

Direct benefits: Reduce the risk of fire and equipment damage caused by lightning strikes; protect sensitive equipment (such as medical instruments and servers) to avoid data loss or business interruption.

Indirect benefits: Reduce insurance claims and accident compensation costs; enhance corporate safety image and increase customer trust.

4. Reduce long-term operation and maintenance costs

Traditional model cost: Manual inspection is expensive, and repair costs for sudden failures are high.

Intelligent system cost: The initial investment is higher, but the frequency of failures can be reduced in the long term through preventive maintenance.

Data shows: after a communication base station adopted intelligent lightning protection, the average annual maintenance cost was reduced by 40% and the failure rate decreased by 70%.

Necessity analysis

1. Coping with the high sensitivity of modern equipment

As the integration of electronic devices increases, their ability to withstand surges decreases significantly. Traditional lightning protection can only protect against direct lightning strikes, whileintelligent systems can fully resist threats such as inductive lightning and operational overvoltage.

2. Adapt to complex environment needs

Special places: such as oil storage tank areas, data centers, high-speed rail stations, etc., have extremely high requirements for lightning protection reliability, and the real-time monitoring and early warning functions of the intelligent system are indispensable.

Geographic factors: Areas with high incidence of lightning (such as tropical and mountainous areas) require more precise protection strategies. Smart systems can optimize lightning protection layout through data analysis.

3. Promotion of regulations and standards

International standard: IEC 62305 explicitly requires continuous monitoring of lightning protection systems.

Domestic policy: GB/T 21431-2015 "Technical Specifications for Testing of Lightning Protection Devices for Buildings" encourages the use of online monitoring technology.

Industry requirements: Electricity, communications, transportation and other fields will gradually incorporateintelligent lightning protection into mandatory safety standards.

4. The inevitable trend of digital transformation

The advancement of concepts such as smart cities and Industry 4.0 requires the simultaneous intelligentization of infrastructure and safety management. As the core link of safety assurance, the lightning protection system must be integrated with the digitalization process.

  Regardless of TN system or TT system, the connection wires at both ends of the SPD connected to the live conductor and PE line should be short and straight. The IEC standard stipulates that the total length of the SPD connection wire should not exceed 0.5m. This is because the lightning impulse current has high-frequency characteristics, and the lightning impulse overvoltage applied to the protected electrical equipment is the residual voltage on the SPD plus the Ldi/dt high-frequency voltage drop on the connection wire (L is the inductance of the wiring at both ends of the SPD, which is proportional to the length of the connection wire, and di/dt is the steepness of the change of the lightning impulse current). The residual voltage of the SPD is determined by the product performance and cannot be changed, while the Ldi/dt on the connection wire can be reduced in the design of the electrical device by reducing the length of the connection wire, that is, reducing the inductance. Therefore, it is best to install the SPD directly between the live conductor busbar and the PE busbar of the distribution box to minimize the length of the connection wire. Now some SPD products have been made according to the modulus of the miniature circuit breaker in the distribution box so that they can be directly installed in the distribution box, which is very beneficial to shorten the length of the SPD connection wire.

  If this is difficult to do for some reason, the SPD can be installed elsewhere. In this case, it is best to use a "V" connection method for the SPD, as shown in Figure 1. The length of the SPD connection line in the figure is almost zero, but this connection method will encounter some difficulties and inconveniences in actual construction.

Figure 1 V-shaped connection in SPD connection

1. The role and limitations of lightning rods

Intercepting direct lightning strikes: Lightning rods attract lightning through tip discharge and safely conduct lightning current into the earth through down conductors, protecting building structures from damage by direct lightning strikes.

Limited protection range: The protection range of a lightning rod depends on its height and rolling ball radius, and it cannot cover all possible lightning strike paths.

No protection against induced lightning and surges: When lightning strikes occur, even if the lightning rod successfully conducts the lightning current, the strong lightning current will still induce transient overvoltage (surge) in nearby wires (such as power lines and signal lines). These surges can enter the building through the lines, damage electronic equipment, and cause electrical fires.

2. The core role of SPD

Discharge surge energy: SPD limits transient overvoltage in the line to a safe level through rapid response (nanosecond level) and discharges excess energy to the ground.

Protect sensitive equipment: Prevent power surges from damaging computers, home appliances, communication equipment, etc. through power and communication lines (even if the building is not directly struck by lightning).

T1 SPD: Installed at the incoming line end of a building (such as the main distribution cabinet) to deal with high-energy surges introduced by direct lightning strikes.

T2 SPD: Installed in the distribution cabinet or at the front end of the equipment to further limit the residual pressure and protect the terminal equipment.

3. Collaborative protection of lightning rod and SPD

External lightning protection + internal lightning protection：

Lightning rod (external lightning protection): responsible for intercepting direct lightning strikes and protecting the building structure.

SPD (internal lightning protection): responsible for eliminating induced lightning and surges, protecting electrical systems and equipment.

Actual scenario example：

The lightning current enters the ground through the down conductor, but it will generate an induced surge in nearby conductors. Without SPD, power surges may enter the room along the power lines, burning out electrical appliances or causing fires. When lightning does not directly strike the target building: when lightning strikes the nearby ground, buildings, or discharges between clouds, the changing electromagnetic field induces overvoltage on the power grid conductor, and SPD can protect against such surges.

1. Required bythe standard

1）Required by the standard, the national standard is mandatory

GB 50057 Design code for protection of Structures against lightning：

Article 4.5.4 clearly requires that lightning protection devices should be inspected regularly, generally once a year;toflammable and explosive places, the inspection cycle needs to be shortened to once every six months.

Article 6.4.3 stipulates that the grounding resistance value must meet the design requirements (usually ≤10Ω, ≤4Ω in important places), otherwise rectification is required.

2）Industry norms and legal basis

"Work Safety Law": requires enterprises to fulfill their primary responsibility for lightning protection safety, and those who fail to conduct regular inspections and cause accidents must bear legal responsibility.

IEC 62305 series of standards: The International Electrotechnical Commission emphasizes that lightning protection systems must be periodically tested to ensure their effectiveness, especially in areas with high incidence of lightning.

2. Actual on-site requirements

1）Prevent direct damage from lightning strikes

Fire and explosion risks: Lightning strikes can directly ignite flammable materials in places such as gas stations and chemical plants. Testing ground resistance and equipotential bonding can eliminate potential spark discharges.

Structural safety: Corrosion or breakage of lightning arresters may result in the inability to safely discharge lightning current, causing damage to buildings.

2）Protect equipment and systems

Vulnerability of electronic equipment: Lightning strikes or power surges can damage precision equipment such as servers and medical devices. Testing SPD performance (such as residual voltage and leakage current) can ensure that it effectively limits voltage.

Power system stability: Detection of shielding and wiring compliance of distribution lines can reduce the impact of lightning-induced overvoltage on the power grid.

3）Adapt to environmental changes

Facility aging: Grounding corrosion and SPD component degradation are inevitable over time, and regular inspections can help replace failed components in a timely manner.

Site renovation: Building expansion or use change may damage the original lightning protection system, requiring reassessment of lightning protection level and adjustment of configuration.

4）Necessary needs for special places

Communication base stations and data centers: The high reliability of the lightning protection system must be ensured to avoid business interruption and data loss.

Hospitals and airports: Lightning protection failure may threaten life safety, and detection is a core measure to ensure the uninterrupted operation of critical facilities.

3. Undetected potential risks

1）Legal liability and economic compensation

If a lightning strike accident occurs due to failure to detectit, the company may face administrative penalties, civil compensation or even criminal liability (such as major safety accident crime).

2) Hidden safety risks

For example, if the grounding resistance exceeds the standard but is not discovered, the current cannot be effectively discharged when lightning strikes, which may cause step voltage electric shock or equipment damage.

3) Shortened equipment life

The leakage current of an SPD that has not been detected for a long time will increase, which may accelerate aging and eventually lose its protective function, causing frequent equipment failures.