Capsule Coffee Production Trend: Building A Digital Factory

A cup of delicious coffee has increasingly become a spiritual drink for more and more people to start their day. As coffee gradually enters people's daily lives, the size of the coffee drinking market is gradually growing. Facing competition on the coffee track, it is the future trend for coffee factories to move towards fully automated factories.

What is a fully automated factory? It can realize fully automated unmanned production of the entire factory's production management process, mechanical processing process, packaging, storage and transportation process, and only manual supply monitoring can be achieved.

Now let’s learn how capsule coffee is automatically produced.

01 Coffee front-end Pre-processing

Coffee front-end pre-processing is mainly an integrated system that realizes automated production management of the entire coffee process from green bean cleaning, blending, roasting, grinding, powder raising, and delivery.

After cleaning, the green coffee beans enter designated jars. Through the intelligent control system, the required beans are put into the roaster from these jars. After the roasting is completed, they will enter the next stage of grinding, automatically blended and weighed, and then put into the grinder. Grind it into powder in the machine and finally put it into the powder jar for raising powder.

From one process to the next, everything is transported through pipelines, enabling fully sealed operations.

02 Coffee Front Packaging Processing

Through front-end pre-processing, the green coffee beans have been successfully processed into coffee powder, and then enter the front-end coffee packaging process. It mainly realizes the automated production management of the entire process of coffee powder filling, sealing and transmission.

The coffee powder produced at the front end is transported through pipelines into the machine hopper of the filling workshop and then comes to the intelligent filling production line. The prepared pre-made cup capsules are sorted and transported here. The coffee powder falls into the capsule from the top hopper to achieve rapid filling and packaging of a single cup of coffee. The packaged coffee capsules are then transported through the conveyor belt.

03 Post-coffee Packaging Processing

After the coffee has been filled into coffee capsules, the coffee capsules need to be organized into a fixed number for boxing and case packaging. It mainly realizes the automated production management of the entire process of coffee capsule cartoning, boxing, coding and palletizing.

The coffee capsules that have been packaged once are transported through the conveyor belt and enter the subsequent packaging line. The prepared cartons are opened by the folding mechanism, a fixed number of coffee capsules are put in. Then glue is sprayed or inserted into the box for sealing (the packing process is the same processing), the belt is weighed. And after the packaging is completed, it enters the next stage. The online coding machine is connected to code the surface of the box/carton, and then the boxes of coffee capsules are automatically stacked through the palletizer.

With the advent of Industry 4.0, the widespread implementation of factory automation has become an inevitable trend in factory development. As a provider of innovative packaging solutions, Sunyi Machinery has the ability to process coffee front-end and post packaging, helping companies build a digital coffee capsule factory.