With the vigorous development of the food and beverage industry, intelligent packaging solutions and intelligent packaging equipment have become the core driving force of industrial upgrading. After years of deep cultivation of technology, domestic enterprises have accumulated profound R & D strength and innovation experience in this field. They have not only mastered the complete automatic packaging technology from filling to labeling, but also exported their products to many countries and regions around the world, serving well-known domestic and foreign brands such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mengniu, Yili, Vita Milk, Huiyuan Juice, etc., to promote the continuous upgrading of the industry.

However, in the actual deployment and application process, especially in the equipment commissioning and new product trial production stage, packaging equipment such as filling machines, pipe pasting machines and capping machines may face problems such as inaccurate measurement and positioning deviation, and equipment parameters need to be adjusted according to the actual production situation.

The traditional on-site maintenance mode not only has slow response speed and high travel cost, but also may lead to long-term downtime of production line. For this reason, remote operation and maintenance solutions are gradually becoming standard in the industry. Through remote access of PLC and HMI, real-time monitoring and parameter adjustment of equipment are realized, which greatly improves operation and maintenance efficiency. However, when implementing remote maintenance solutions, enterprises often face the following challenges:

Network isolation and networking problems: In order to ensure production safety, factories usually strictly isolate the production network from the office network, resulting in the existing internal network cannot be directly used for remote maintenance, and equipment networking becomes a problem.

• • Overseas, cross-regional remote debugging dilemma: * * For cross-regional remote operation and maintenance, especially in the face of multinational enterprises or overseas business, cross-operator remote operation and maintenance often leads to insufficient bandwidth, high delay, PLC program download failure and other problems, remote debugging is difficult.

Protocol compatibility and data collection barriers: Different devices and modules may use different industrial protocols, such as Modbus, Profinet, CANopen, etc. regular remote operation and maintenance solutions require the deployment of industrial protocol converters, which greatly increases the difficulty and cost of data collection.

• • Lack of security protection system: * * The remote operation and maintenance process involves the transmission of a large amount of equipment operation data. If there is no perfect authentication mechanism and security protection system, the hidden danger of data leakage will remain high.

In order to solve the above problems, Aweray Aweseed launched a remote operation and maintenance remote networking scheme for intelligent packaging equipment based on SD-WAN, providing strong support for the after-sales and maintenance of global equipment, helping enterprises to continuously improve their service capabilities and consolidate their global market competitiveness.

At the customer site, only Aweray Aweseed R300 series industrial routers need to be deployed, and their built-in 4G/5G network capabilities can be quickly connected to the network. Without high-cost public network IP or dedicated line deployment, a virtual private network can be formed, which enables operation and maintenance engineers to remotely access PLC, HMI and other equipment, easily carry out remote parameter adjustment, problem diagnosis and program distribution, and greatly improve the response efficiency of equipment delivery and after-sales.

Aweray Aweseed Advantage 1: Solve the problem of "factory network isolation" and realize remote debugging of equipment in a cost-effective way

In practical application, in the face of the problem that many packaging workshops are isolated from the office network and cannot directly access the public network, Aweray Aweseed has brought the R300 series of industrial routers. Relying on its embedded 4G/5G cellular network module, packaging equipment can be quickly connected to the Internet without accessing the wired network. In addition, R300 series supports Aweray Aweseed self-developed remote networking technology, and can form a virtual private network without relying on high-cost dedicated line access or public network IP to realize safe remote access of equipment.

As a result, in case of maintenance and debugging, engineers can access the packaging equipment in the workshop in different places without being present, thus realizing operation and maintenance operations such as remote parameter adjustment, program distribution and equipment diagnosis of PLC and HMI, and greatly reducing operation and maintenance response time and travel cost.

These advantages have also made the Aweray Aweseed R300 series the preferred equipment for the manufacturing industry to realize remote connection and remote operation and maintenance requirements, winning the favor of many enterprises, and winning the first place in the country in the sales volume of industrial routers on e-commerce platforms in 2024.

Aweray Aweseed Advantage 2: Global Intelligent Link, Stable and Smooth Overseas Remote Debugging

In the face of off-site packaging equipment, especially overseas customers, traditional remote solutions often have problems such as PLC program download failure and remote operation Catton due to network bandwidth bottleneck and high delay.

In order to solve the problem of unstable links across regions and operators, Aweray Aweseed has built a global intelligent link. Through multiple exclusive high-speed transmission resources, directly connected to the backbone network of global cloud service providers, and combined with real-time link quality detection, it can intelligently select the optimal access node, automatically switch for disaster recovery, and ensure that key links such as PLC program download and HMI operation are stable, uninterrupted, low delay and high reliability during remote maintenance, even in the face of packaging equipment deployed overseas, it can easily cope.

Aweray Aweseed Advantage 3: Full support for industrial protocols, efficient and convenient remote operation and maintenance

For different types of packaging equipment, in terms of multi-protocol and multi-device adaptation, in addition to the Aweray Aweseed router R300 series with RS232/485 industrial serial ports, it can directly access multiple types of industrial equipment without additional conversion modules.

Different from the traditional remote operation and maintenance scheme, Aweray Aweseed can directly support Modbus, Profinet, CANopen and other industrial protocols by virtue of its self-developed two-layer networking technology, and even be compatible with various private or customized protocols, without additional conversion for remote transmission. At the same time, the application of Aweray Aweseed layer 2 networking technology also enables the software client to automatically discover remote target devices, making remote operation and maintenance as if it were operating locally. Whether it is data reading, instruction issuance or device configuration, it can achieve efficient, stable and convenient experience.

Aweray Aweseed Advantage 4: All-round data security protection, supporting fine operation and maintenance authority management

Packaging equipment may involve sensitive data such as product information and process parameters. Unlike direct port mapping, Aweray Aweseed build a private virtual private network. Not only the equipment will not expose the public network, but also the data will be encrypted and transmitted throughout the process. It also provides functions such as multi-level authentication, fine operation and maintenance authority allocation mechanism, audit log, etc. For example, the Aweray Aweseed scheme can only authorize the designated operation and maintenance engineers of the headquarters to access equipment in a certain area, effectively preventing permission abuse and data leakage.

On the other hand, compared with traditional solutions, Aweray Aweseed directly integrates complete security capabilities without additional third-party firewalls or encryption modules. It is not only simpler to deploy, but also more cost-effective, which can greatly reduce the deployment cost and cost of the overall operation and maintenance solution. Time investment is especially suitable for equipment manufacturers that require global delivery and rapid response.

In the context of the continuous evolution of intelligent manufacturing and the increasing popularity of global deployment, remote operation and maintenance is not only a key means for packaging equipment manufacturers to improve service efficiency, but also an important support to promote the digital transformation of the industry. Aweray Aweseed not only solves the core problems in remote debugging and after-sales maintenance of packaging equipment by virtue of its leading self-research SD-WAN off-site networking technology, but also greatly reduces the threshold and cost of enterprises in the process of remote operation and maintenance. Through continuous innovation, Aweray Aweseed is opening up global remote service links for more and more manufacturing enterprises, helping Chinese manufacturing to move towards the world stage with a more efficient and intelligent attitude, and leading the industry into a new era of intelligent operation and maintenance.