Things you need to know before buying a Tube filling machine.
A
tube-filling machine, more often than not, does not get the
importance given to upstream process line machineries. The user
considers it a mere packaging machine instead of an integrated
process line machine. While preparing a project report,
requirement of tube filler is added-on as an afterthought. A
ladle is as important as the soup. Many a heartburn can be
avoided if selection of
tube filling machinery is given due importance.
Steps:
1) Appoint / hire an experienced operator and a maintenance
engineer. Quality of these two will ensure optimum utilization
of installed tube filling machine. Will anyone trust his 2006
model six-door sedan to a hackney coach driver?
2) Does the filler material require any special considerations
before and after filling? Convey its bulk density, viscosity and
other peculiarities to the tube filler manufacturer. Collect
sealed sample tubes from the non-metallic tube supplier along
with certificate stating the temperature and minimum time
required for tube sealing. Make sure the tube has been subjected
to proper tests for seal strength. This information will help
the manufacturer in calculating expected capacity of the tube
filler more accurately. Any variation in the tube quality, its
size and filler characteristics affect output.
3) What is the standard of 'after-sales-service' of the
manufacturer? Check this up from actual users. People get
pickier while buying their six-door sedan than their machinery
(tube-filler in present context). It should be understood, the
former eats-up our money while the latter earns.
4) Now where to buy from? There was a time, say about 30 years
back, when anybody wishing to buy the latest model of machine
had to look westward. East was only for supplying raw material.
Those days are gone and the East has developed tremendously.
Consider this - engines for most advanced aircrafts are made in
Asia, Ford tests it latest designs at Suzuki, Microsoft/IBM and
the rest depend on their very sustenance on Asia. Cheaper labour
cost, higher intelligence combined with its famous
industriousness, Asia (more particularly India) has really
shaken the western world out of its complacency.