AI-Empowered Smart Banknote Printing at CBPM

China Banknote Printing & Minting Corporation’s (CBPM) development approach to banknote production is being driven by intelligent transformation and digital empowerment, both of which are being harnessed to strengthen technical innovation and propel growth.

This transformation involves automation to streamline processes, boost efficiency, and reduce labour, using IT and the IoT for connectivity and to generate and process huge quantities of data in an information hub. Central to this is the application of AI to create a ‘smart brain’ that supports intelligent production, predictive maintenance, and intelligent material flows.

According to CBPM, this not only drives efficiency promotion and cost savings, but also plays a vital role in helping enterprises better manage production and supply chain fluctuations, allocate labour, and respond to shifts in consumer demand or industry conditions.

Full-cycle intelligent production upgrade

Inspection and encapsulation: in the inspection workflow, CBPM has built an integrated production line driven by information flows that enables automatic paper feeding, cutting, sorting, counting, plastic encapsulation, and packing, supported by an intelligent inspection and information management system.