This fully intelligent, flexible production system is professionally tailor-made for multi-ingredient, formula-customized pet food products, including dry kibble, freeze-dried pet food, prescription diet, functional pet food, mixed pet treats and other pet nutrition products. It realizes a full closed-loop digital production from customized order receiving, formula automatic proportioning, multi-material precision weighing, automatic packaging to online quality inspection and full-process traceability. With a humanized design and scalable structure, this turnkey solution perfectly solves the core pain points of flexible, small-batch, multi-SKU pet food production, greatly reduces labor costs, and comprehensively improves production efficiency and product compliance.
·Uncontrollable formula accuracy and compliance risks: Traditional pre-mixing process for multi-ingredient pet food causes severe raw material layering, leading to unstable nutritional ratio in each package. This fails to meet the strict standards of AAFCO, FEDIAF and other international pet food associations, especially for prescription diet, bringing huge product recall risks and irreversible brand reputation loss.
·Inflexible production for customized orders: Traditional fixed-formula production lines can only handle mass production of single SKU, unable to adapt to the fast-growing demand for small-batch, multi-SKU, personalized customized pet food (DTC customized diet, functional food, trial packs). Long formula changeover and debugging time lead to extremely low production efficiency and inability to accept customized orders.
·Poor compatibility with diverse raw materials: Pet food raw materials have huge differences in form and properties (freeze-dried chunks, meat pellets, powdered nutrients, fruit & vegetable crisps, probiotics), which are fragile, easy to cake, dust and absorb moisture. Ordinary equipment cannot balance weighing accuracy and raw material integrity, resulting in high raw material loss, poor finished product appearance and quality degradation.
·No full-process traceability for export compliance: Strict traceability requirements are mandatory for pet food exported to Europe, North America and other mainstream markets. Traditional semi-automated production lines have broken data links between order, formula, production and quality inspection, unable to realize full batch traceability, which restricts enterprises from entering the global high-end market.
·Heavy manual dependency and high cross-contamination risk: Traditional production requires a lot of manual work in formula batching, weighing, packaging, order scheduling and quality inspection, leading to soaring labor costs, frequent human errors, and high cross-contamination risks, which violates food-grade production specifications.
·Disconnected quality inspection and high defect outflow: Offline weight inspection and metal detection cannot be linked with order and formula data, unable to realize closed-loop quality control. Unqualified products are difficult to trace accurately, easily flowing into the market and causing customer complaints and returns.
·Chaotic production management and low capacity utilization: When multiple orders, formulas and SKUs are produced at the same time, traditional production lines are prone to order errors, material mixing and scheduling confusion, unable to realize flexible production, resulting in serious inventory and capacity waste.
·Multi-station independent precision weighing: Support multiple sets of independent weighing systems, adapt to different forms of pet food raw materials, ensure 100% accurate nutritional ratio of each package, and fully comply with international pet food safety and nutritional standards.
·Flexible variable formula production: Support one-click fast switching of formula, SKU and packaging specification, adapt to small-batch, multi-batch customized order production, and realize order-driven flexible manufacturing.
·Full-link digital traceable management: Support full digital linkage from APP/mini program order receiving, ERP order disassembly, production scheduling, formula execution to quality inspection traceability, realize full-process data traceability, and meet global export compliance requirements.
·Full raw material compatibility: Adapt to freeze-dried chunks, meat pellets, kibble, powdered nutrients, fruit & vegetable pieces and other pet food raw materials, with anti-breakage, dust-proof, moisture-proof design, to ensure raw material integrity and finished product quality.
·Fully automated unmanned production: Realize full automation from raw material feeding, weighing & proportioning, packaging, online quality inspection to unqualified product rejection, reduce manual contact, avoid cross-contamination, and save labor costs.
·Closed-loop online quality inspection: Online check weigher and metal detector are fully linked with the production system, automatically reject unqualified products, upload data in real time, and realize full-process quality control.
·Food-grade compliant structure: Full 304 stainless steel structure, no sanitary dead corners, easy to disassemble and clean, fully meet FDA, BRC, GMP and other international food safety certification requirements.
·Strong scalability: Weighing units can be expanded according to formula requirements, compatible with different packaging machines, and can be seamlessly connected with the enterprise's existing ERP and MES systems to realize digital factory upgrade.
We provide a turnkey, fully integrated intelligent weighing and packaging solution customized for multi-ingredient pet food production. The modular design and intelligent central control system can be flexibly expanded according to your formula requirements, production capacity and workshop layout, and fully covers the whole process from order receiving to finished product output.
·Supporting Platform: Heavy-duty food-grade 304 stainless steel supporting platform with anti-slip design and safety guardrails. It provides stable and safe installation space for the upper feeding and weighing units, effectively reduces the impact of equipment vibration on weighing accuracy, and facilitates daily maintenance, cleaning and debugging.
·Vacuum Feeder: Fully sealed vacuum feeding equipment, specially designed for powdered pet food raw materials (nutritional powder, probiotics, vitamin additives, mineral powder). It realizes dust-free automatic conveying of powder raw materials to the storage bin, no cross-contamination, no material residue, perfectly adapting to moisture-absorbent and easy-flying fine powder materials.
·Material Delivery Pipeline: Food-grade fully sealed material conveying pipeline with mirror-polished inner wall, no residue, no dead corners, anti-sticking and anti-blocking. It realizes independent closed conveying of different raw materials, avoids cross-contamination between raw materials, and ensures the purity of the formula.
·4-head 3.0L Linear Weigher: High-precision linear weigher specially optimized for granular and block pet food raw materials (kibble, freeze-dried meat chunks, fruit & vegetable crisps, jerky). With 4 independent 3.0L hoppers and anti-breakage structure, it realizes fast and accurate quantitative weighing, and can be expanded up to 10 sets of independent weighing systems to meet the needs of multi-ingredient formulas.
·Storage Bin: Food-grade stainless steel storage bin with automatic material level sensing control. It can be equipped with thermal insulation, moisture-proof and anti-caking functions according to raw material characteristics, realizes independent storage of different raw materials and automatic feeding, and ensures continuous production.
·Bowl-type Elevator: Professional vertical lifting equipment for fragile pet food raw materials (freeze-dried, baked pellets, jerky). With food-grade flexible hoppers and fully sealed structure, it realizes smooth lifting of block/granular raw materials to the upper hopper without breakage and material scattering, perfectly protecting the appearance and integrity of high-value raw materials.
·Packaging Machine: High-performance pet food special packaging machine, optional 2 sets of independent bag-making systems. It is compatible with pillow bags, stand-up pouches, zipper bags, quad-seal bags and other bag types, supports real-time printing of product information (batch number, formula details, shelf life, traceability QR code), and automatically completes bag forming, filling, sealing, coding and cutting in one go, with firm sealing to lock freshness and extend product shelf life.
·Finished Product Conveyor: Food-grade finished product conveying equipment, which stably transports the sealed finished packages to the subsequent quality inspection link, perfectly matches the production beat of the front-end packaging machine, and ensures continuous operation of the whole line.
·Horizontal Finished Product Conveyor: Horizontal finished product conveying line with guiding and positioning design, which accurately transports finished products to the check weigher and metal detector, ensures detection accuracy and avoids missed inspection.
·CW300 Check Weigher: Intelligent self-adjusting weight inspection system, which automatically adjusts detection parameters according to the preset product weight, realizes real-time weight accuracy inspection of each finished package, automatically rejects unqualified products, and uploads data to the central control system in real time to realize weight closed-loop control.
·Metal Detector: High-sensitivity food-grade metal detection equipment, which can detect ferrous, non-ferrous and stainless steel foreign bodies. It is fully linked with the central control system, automatically rejects products containing metal foreign bodies, and records full-process traceable data to strictly guarantee pet food safety.
Full-Link Order-Driven Production: The system realizes full digital closed-loop production through the process: Client applet/APP order receiving → ERP order disassembly & sorting → upper & lower computer data exchange → central integrated control (including material mixing). After receiving the order, the system automatically arranges production scheduling, and completes customized order production without manual intervention.
Scalable Multi-Ingredient Weighing: Supports up to 10 sets of independent automatic feeding & weighing systems, which can realize independent precise metering of each raw material according to the preset pet nutritional formula.
Dual Independent Bag-Making Systems: Optional 2 sets of independent bag-making systems, which can be freely switched according to bag types, and support real-time printing of product information.
Intelligent Closed-Loop Quality Inspection: Equipped with self-adjusting weight inspection system and metal detection & rejection system, fully linked with the central control system.
Digital Production Management: Supports LAN real-time production monitoring, full-process data collection, digital production and digital management, making all production steps clear, traceable and intelligent.
·The customer places a customized pet food order through the applet/APP, order data is synchronized to the enterprise ERP system, which completes order disassembly, formula matching and production scheduling.
·Order and formula data is transmitted to the central integrated control system through upper and lower computer data exchange, and the system automatically invokes the corresponding formula parameters and production process.
·According to the preset formula, the vacuum feeder and bowl-type elevator respectively transport powder raw materials and granular/block raw materials to the corresponding independent storage bins through the sealed material delivery pipeline, with automatic material level control and continuous feeding.
·Up to 10 sets of independent weighing systems (including 4-head 3.0L linear weigher) complete independent high-precision quantitative weighing of each raw material according to the formula ratio, and discharge the materials to the packaging machine in sequence.
·The packaging machine automatically completes bag making, multi-material filling, real-time product information printing, airtight sealing and finished product cutting according to the order requirements, with optional dual bag-making systems for free bag type switching.
·Finished products are transported to the online quality inspection link through the finished product conveyor and horizontal finished product conveyor in sequence.
·The CW300 check weigher automatically adjusts detection parameters according to the product weight, completes weight accuracy inspection, and automatically rejects overweight/underweight unqualified products.
·The metal detector completes metal foreign body inspection of qualified products, automatically rejects products containing metal foreign bodies, and ensures the food safety of finished products.
·Qualified finished products are transported to the subsequent boxing or warehousing link, and the whole production process data is recorded, uploaded and traceable in real time.
·Ultra-high formula accuracy & compliance guarantee: Independent multi-station weighing system controls the formula ratio deviation of each package within ±0.3%, completely solves the problem of raw material layering and ratio inaccuracy, fully complies with AAFCO, FEDIAF, FDA, BRC and other international pet food standards, and eliminates product recall risks and brand reputation loss.
·Industry-leading flexible production capacity: One-click formula and SKU switching with debugging time controlled within 5 minutes, perfectly adapting to small-batch, multi-SKU, personalized customized order production (prescription diet, functional pet food, DTC customized food). It replaces 3-5 traditional fixed-formula production lines, and greatly improves the enterprise's order receiving capacity and market competitiveness.
·Full-link digital traceable management: Full closed-loop digital control from order receiving to finished product output, all production data (order information, formula details, production batch, quality inspection data) is recorded and traceable in real time, fully meeting the traceability requirements of EU and North American export markets, and helping enterprises realize intelligent digital factory upgrading.
·Fully automated unmanned production: Full-process automation from raw material feeding to finished product output reduces manual labor demand by more than 95%, greatly cuts labor costs, avoids human-induced cross-contamination and formula errors, and increases overall production efficiency by 4-6 times compared with traditional semi-manual production lines.
·Full raw material adaptability & low loss rate: Professional conveying and weighing structure customized for different pet food raw materials, with fragile raw material breakage rate ≤0.5%, powder dust control rate up to 99.9%, effectively reducing raw material loss, and maintaining the complete appearance and premium quality of high-value raw materials such as freeze-dried chunks.
·Full closed-loop quality control & zero defect outflow: Online check weigher and metal detector are fully linked with the central control system, realizing 100% full inspection of finished products, automatic rejection of unqualified products, zero defect outflow, strictly guaranteeing pet food safety, and greatly reducing after-sales complaints and return losses.
·Food-grade compliant design & stable operation: Full food-grade 304 stainless steel main structure, no sanitary dead corners, tool-free quick disassembly design, easy to clean and disinfect, fully meeting GMP food safety production requirements. Wear-resistant and anti-blocking structure supports 24/7 long-term continuous stable operation, reduces equipment failure rate by more than 85%, and greatly cuts unplanned downtime and later maintenance costs.
·Strong scalability & compatibility: Weighing units can be expanded up to 10 sets according to formula requirements, compatible with various bag types and packaging specifications, and can be seamlessly connected with the enterprise's existing ERP, MES, automatic boxing and palletizing system, adapting to different workshop layouts and production scales.
Customized solutions are available for different production capacity demands, formula ingredient quantities, packaging specifications and workshop layouts. Contact our professional technical team now to get an exclusive quotation and customized turnkey solution for your pet food production.
