For a while, according to the dealer, some noodles broke after being transported. Broken noodles are not easy to sell, which is a bottleneck for our noodles after they come out of Nanxian. From raw materials to formulas, from packaging to loading and unloading, I did experiments one by one to find the reason. And found that some big brands of noodles also have the same problem. If this problem can be solved, the loss will be greatly reduced, and my noodles will have the confidence to go out.
One day, I observed on the noodle cutting machine and found that the moment the cutting head came into contact with the noodles, there was a discount, and the discounted noodles had ripples after drying, and they would break under pressure during transportation. If the problem is found, it is necessary to improve the machinery. I pondered around the dough cutter with technicians and workers all day long, and sometimes I had to be stunned for a long time with my rice bowl when I ate, and I didn't have a clue.
Once, I Xi an article by Mr. Cui Xianchang of Changde Rice Noodle Factory in the Journal of Food Science, which mentioned the wonderful use of incomplete gears, and was very inspired: if we change the gears on the dough cutting machine to incomplete gears, we can definitely solve this problem. Through repeated improvements, we changed the gears that used to run synchronously to gears that did not run completely synchronously, so that the effect of quickly cutting off the surface was achieved, and the corrugation phenomenon of the noodles disappeared. After the transformation, the change was very obvious, the loss immediately decreased by 5%, and the product quality also improved by a notch.
Now that we have solved the problem that the noodles are not easy to break, we will definitely be able to reduce the yield in transportation. So I decided to replace the previous carton packaging with low-pressure film packaging, which can save a lot of money. At that time, 200 yuan per ton of cartons was needed, and the use of low-pressure film was only 20 yuan per ton, which could save 180 yuan per ton. I remember that 120,000 tons of dried noodles were produced that year, saving more than 20 million yuan.