Bent Neck Glass Bottles Cause Productivity

Vision System Safeguards Filling and Capping Equipment

Defective bottles often cause damage to expensive filling and capping equipment and result in both filling line downtime for repairs as well as the cost and delay of ordering replacement parts.

Records show that as glass bottle quality has declined in recent years, the number of bottles arriving at wine and spirit lines with bent necks has increased. These defective bottles often cause damage to expensive filling and capping equipment and result in filling line downtime for repairs as well as the cost and delay of ordering replacement parts.

METTLER TOLEDO CI-Vision has developed a machine vision inspection system that specifically checks for bent necks in glass bottles and diverts any defective bottles from the production line upstream from all rinsing, filling and corking or capping operations where this expensive damage might occur.

The CI-Vision Glass Bottle Bent Neck Inspection Package is a complete vision inspection system, including two cameras, two lights, CI-Vision’s unique CIVCore image processing software (including parts tracking) as well as all cables, manuals and a touch screen control center. Since it has its own controls and software, the compact system simply mounts into the line without the need for extensive integration engineering. CI-Vision vision specialists install the system and ensure that it works successfully on the line.

Depending on individual circumstances, the increased productive uptime of bottling lines and the elimination of the costly damage defective bottles cause to equipment can pay back the cost of the system in relatively quick time.