Project challenge: Increase productionThe customer is one of South Africa's largest beverage companies and needed to optimise their production line.
During the bottling process it is critical to crown or cap the bottles to a fine range of forces: if a bottle is capped too hard then it will break, and if too softly leakage results. The tools that were being used in the process forced the line to stop while the spring strength was measured one-by-one on a 16 bay turret system, thus causing production loss. |
HOW DO WE MEASURE BOTTLE CAP CROWNING FORCE?
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JAD solution
After collaboration with the customer, JAD Systems proposed an instrumented bottle that logs the crowning pressure in the production run. The bottle simply replaces a normal bottle and is then picked off the line and the data is downloaded to a PC for reporting.
JAD developed:
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