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Due to the high speeds and quality assurance requirements of most bottle and can lines, it’s important to protect your customers by ensuring only the best bottles and cans reach the point of sale, which can sometimes be a challenging task. During production, common defects include Bullnose, metal crowns, cracks, missing tabs, date codes, incorrect logos, and various other closure defects. This is why beverage manufacturers around the world agree that closure inspection is a very important step in ensuring their products receive the highest level of quality assurance, as well as long shelf life.
Give your customers the peace of mind they deserve by adding FILTEC’s Top-Down or 360 Vision Closure + Fill Level Inspection to your line. Our unique technology utilizes optical and sensing technologies to inspect every bottle or can to prevent incorrectly closed containers from being shipped to the consumer. Inspecting containers for the correct closure provides improved product quality and greater brand protection.
Protect your product by adding Closure Inspection.
The ideal Closure Inspection Solution should be positioned after the seamer for the most accurate performance.
360 Vision Closure + Fill Level is an automated machine vision system designed for bottle closures on lines operating up to 1,200 bottles per minute (BPM). It utilizes sophisticated optical and sensing technologies to inspect every bottle for the correct fill level and prevent incorrectly closed bottles from being shipped to the consumer. Closure integrity inspection solutions provide the assurance manufacturers need by identifying and rejecting products that may not have been sealed properly. Depending on the content, accurately detecting fill level can be challenging. FILTEC Vision Closure with Intellect ensures that fill level is measured precisely and line conditions that would induce sloshing and foaming do not interfere with the accuracy of the fill level measurement.ion solutions provide the assurance manufacturers need by identifying and rejecting products that may not have been sealed properly. Depending on the content, accurately
Top-Down Closure is designed to inspect bottle caps and crowns and can lids for several defects, including missing closure, incorrect logo, color, or closure design, missing tab, deformation, and various other closure defects that are visible from the top. Protect your customers and ensure high-quality products reach the point of sales with FILTEC’s solution for Top-Down Closure Inspection.
How FILTEC is here to help with your specific Closure needs.
FILTEC is there to support manufacturers by providing the necessary inspection equipment needed to accurately monitor and analyze each bottle or can ensure only the best product makes it to the customer. The best part about FILTEC solutions is their ability to integrate seamlessly on your line.
FILTEC offers Closure Solutions to fit almost any bottle or canning line. Both solutions use machine vision technology to protect your product from sealing failures, deformation, bullnose defects, cracks, and spoilage. FILTEC's Closure Solutions are customizable to fit your specific inspection needs which is why it uses Vision technologies for the most accurate closure inspection based on the container and product. Our unique technology precisely inspects the external surface topography of closures to ensure that each container meets its inspection requirements to prevent poor-quality containers from being shipped to the consumer. FILTEC’s 360 Vision Closure + Fill Level and Top-Down Closure Inspection can prevent you from spending thousands on wasted and returned products from your customers.
360 Vision Closure + Fill Level Top-Down Closure
By inspecting the bottles and cans for closure defects, you are helping to maintain the integrity of your product and only sending the perfect bottles and cans to the next stage down the production line. And because the FILTEC 360 Vision Closure+ Fill Level and Top-Down Closure systems integrate with the INTELLECT platform; you will have a deeper view of your line data. By integrating the INTELLECT Platform, you will have access to features such as continuous monitoring and statistical analysis of line operations and filler valve and closer or capper head sampling. INTELLECT isolates and evaluates the performance of individual valves saving you significant time and money traditionally spent on rejects and product waste. Even better, FILTEC's 360 Vision Closure+ Fill Level and Top-Down Closure solution seamlessly integrates with other INTELLECT modules, so that you can have end-to-end inspection solutions on your line.
In closing, FILTEC's 360 Vision Closure+ Fill Level and Top-Down Closure Solutions help ensure the overall line health of thousands of beverage producers. When coupled with FILTEC's INTELLECT Smart Inspection Platform, FILTEC can provide beverage producers with the peace of mind of accurate and precise inspection. To ensure that every bottle can make its way to the point of sale with the correct internal pressure, quality assurance inspection should be a top priority.
To learn more about FILTEC's Closure Solutions visit: https://www.filtec.com/products/full-bottle/360-vision-closure-fill-level-for-bottles/