Packwell Schwepnitz - 30 years of experience
Production of corrugated board
Corrugated board is a versatile and above all ecological packaging material and therefore the first choice for shipping goods. By using DENKnet, Packwell is perfecting its production of high-quality corrugated board.
High-quality product range
Over 250,000 km² of Corrugated Cardboard Annually: Production in 7 Steps
Every year, more than 250,000 km² of corrugated board is produced worldwide in a very complex and demanding industrial process consisting of more than 7 individual steps. The production is realized in large corrugated cardboard production plants, which produce up to 1,500m² of corrugated cardboard per minute.
High-quality packaging has been produced in Schwepnitz near Dresden in Saxony since 1994. Packwell Schwepnitz is an attractive and solid employer in the region and one of the most modern and productive packaging plants in Germany. As a member of the Palm Packaging Group, Packwell Schwepnitz offers a broad and high-quality product range.
The Key Parameter
The evenness of the corrugated board
The greatest challenge during production is the evenness (flatness) of the corrugated board. corrugated board is the biggest challenge. Deviations from this are the cause of most rejects (> 2%). The total damage is approx. 1.25 billion € annually.
Uneven corrugated board is caused by inhomogeneous and inappropriate moisture in the mainly recycled paper, whose properties vary greatly. vary greatly.
Uneven corrugated board is caused by inhomogeneous and inappropriate moisture in the mainly recycled paper, whose properties vary greatly.
The difficulty lies in measuring the flatness across the entire width (up to 3.35 m) of the paper web moving at up to 450 m/min and, based on this to optimize and automatically control the process in real time.
AI Application made by DENKweit
AI indicates “OK” or “not OK” with light signals
Packwell Schwepnitz now uses AI in its production to minimize waste and to be able to act immediately in the event of any problems (e.g. bulges). The company did not need to adapt its production environment - DENKnets works with the existing conditions.
Normabweichungen werden Mitarbeitern sofort über ein optisches Signal mitgeteilt, sodass schnell in die Fließbandproduktion eingegriffen werden kann.
Green screen: Flatness Ok! Red screen: Flatness not Ok! (unevenness recorded)
The way to these reliable results
With individual AI to a stable solution - training in the DENK VISION AI Hub
AI training by your domain experts
To ensure reliable AI results, the customer himself trained the system using individual, real images. The customer trained the AI as an “expert” with regard to correct and unacceptable plan positions. As an “expert”, only the customer himself can make congruent statements about the planning situation and consistently train the AI.
Few training images
A reliable network was trained with fewer than 700 input images. In the case of classification, the training itself was quick and easy: all the customer had to do was decide whether the flatness of an image was “good” or “bad” by pressing the number 1 or 2 on their keyboard.
API Integration
Only by differentiating between these two classes was a stable AI trained, which was easily integrated offline into the customer's computer environment using an API.
